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Hindwing rather broad, tip moderately rounded; rather bright
tawny purple, along termen becoming pale ochreous spotted with
tawny purple, spots interconnected but small. Cilia pale ochreous,
strewn with tawny.
Male genitalia: Tegumen + vinculum annular, less broad than in
subochraceella. Uncus longer, each half abruptly narrowed beyond
middle, top rounded-clavate, finely granulate, inwardly flattened.
Valva Avith a shorter cucullus; costa forming a short, serrulate blade
with another triangular blade below that, directed inwardly.
Aedeagus slender, rather long.
Material examined: Luzon, Benguet Subprov., Klondyke, 800 ft.,
6.IV.1912 (A.E. Wileman), 1 cf, holotype, genit. slide 5673 (Rothschild
bequest, BM).
Very similar to H. subochraceella (Walsingham) , but with distinctly
colored hght purple hindwings, narrower forewings and
different genitalia.
Haplotinea hemilampra, new species
Figures 451, 787
Male, 12 mm. Head white, vertex, orbits, and face suffused with
grey. Antenna with flagellum normal, not thickened; white touched
with ochreous (in cross-cut circular), scape short, cylindrical. Palpus
fuscous. Thorax fuscous with a strong purple gloss. Abdomen
fuscous.
Forewing ovate-sublanceolate, costa gently curved, apex pointed,
termen rounded, obhque. Glossy light tawny fuscous, costal half of
wing evenly suffused ^\ith dark fuscous purple. Ciha fuscous, dusted
with darker fuscous.
Hindwing dark fuscous with a distinct coppery hue; costa with a
depressed patch of dense whitish scales between margin and cell.
Cilia fuscous with darker suffused basal half and a pale basal hne.
Male genitaUa: Tegumen + vinculum annular, rather broad, vinculum
with a deep triangular excision. Valva almost quadrate,
cucullus angle slightly prominent and rounded, costa narrowly sclerotized,
with an inwards-turned apical pointed process. Anellus + juxta
very small, shaped as small triangles flanking aedeagus. Uncus lobes
long, moderately thickened in middle, top forming a slender strong
process. Aedeagus short.
Material exainined: Luzon, Benguet, Klondyke, 800 ft., 23.IV.1912
(A.E. Wileman), 1 d^, genit. slide 5678, holotype (Rothschild bequest,
BM).
AUied to the preceding and to Haplotinea nestoria (Me3rrick) (fig.
783), distinct from the latter by not dilated antenna and from the
former by white head and antenna and differently colored forewings.