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blotches or raised tufts on veins, tending to form transverse strigiilation;
a dark brown-purplish suffusion on base of costa, edged by
ferruginous tawny; a transverse series of two large rounded, raised
ferruginous-tawny tufts, mixed with a few long white hair-scales, one
tuft above dorsum, another in cell, edged posteriorly in fold by a dark
purple suffusion; two similar tawny tufts, on upper edge of cell at
1/3 of wing length, and on base of vein 10, respectively; some three
smaller tufts along vein lb; two large white tufts, on upper and lower
angles of cell, respectively, upper largest; a sometimes ill-defined
slightly outwards-oblique transverse streak of pale ground color, at
about 2/7 of wing, followed by two broad and one narrow blackish
transverse bands, last marginal, in apex; numerous smaller, variably
colored tufts scattered all over the wing. Cilia pale grey, mixed and
barred with darker grey except in tornus, a black interrupted subbasal
hue.
Hindwing with vein 2 from middle, 3 from beyond middle, 4 from
angle, 5 and 6 separate; pale ochreous, irregularly marbled with
bronze grey, veins bronze purple, costa and dorsum with a purple
gloss. Cilia golden fuscous, with a pale basal line.
Female genitalia: Lamella antevaginalis rectangular, rather narrower
and much longer than in G. diascopa. Anapoph^^ses longer
and more slender.
Material examined: Luzon, Mt. Makiling (Baker), 1 9, holotype,
genit. slide 5268; 2 9, paratypes (USNM). Mindanao, Lanao, plains,
Kolambugan, 2.VIL1914 (A.E. Wileman), 1 9, paratype (BM).
Judging from the genitalia, closely allied to the preceding
species (G. diascopa).
Harmaclona Busck, 1914
Figures 412, 454-456
Harmaclona Busck, 1914, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., vol 47, p. 63 (Tineidae).
Fletcher, 1929, Mem. Dept. Agric. India, Ent. ser., vol. 11, p. 104 (Arrhenophanidae!).
[Type species: Harmaclona cossidella Busck, 1914 (Panama).]
Ptychoxena Meyrick, 1916, Exotic Microlepidoptera, vol. 1, p. 615.—Fletcher,
1929, Mem. Dept. Agric. India, Ent. ser., vol. 11, p. 192.— Diakonoff, 1955,
Verh. Ned. Akad. Wet., Nat., ser. 2, vol. 50, no. 3, p. 115 [new synonym].
[Type species: Ptychoxena tephrantha Meyrick, 1916 (India, Ceylon, Australia)
.]
Micrerethista Meyrick, 1938, Trans. Roy. Ent. Soc. London, vol. 87, p. 527.
Diakonoff, 1955, Verh. Ned. Akad. Wet., Nat., ser. 2, vol. 50, no. 3, p. 131
[new synonym]. [Type species: Micrerethista mochlacma Meyrick, 1938
(New Guinea).]
Type species: Harmaclona cossidella Busck, 1914 (Panama).
To the description of this remarkable genus should be added the
following points. Labial palpi sometimes widely diverging, always