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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 33
rather a Schoenotenes Meyrick by the oval shape of the forewing, the
markings and the raised veins on the underside of both wings.
This genus is dedicated to the famous insect morphologist, the late
Dr. R.E. Snodgrass.
Snodgrassia stenochorda (Meyrick, 1928), new combination
Figures 34, 45-46, 512
Cacoecia stenochorda Meyrick, 1928, Exotic Microlepidoptera, vol. 3, p. 456
(cT, Luzon).— Clarke, 1955, Catalogue . . . Microlepidoptera . . . Meyrick,
vol. 1, p. 294.
Archips stenochorda.—Clarke, 1958, Catalogue . . . Microlepidoptera . . . Meyrick,
vol. 3, p. 48, pi. 24, figs. 4-4b (.figs, type, genit. cf).
Distribution:
Philippine Is., Luzon.
Material examined: Luzon, Mt. MakUing (Baker), 60 cf, genit.
slides 5010, 5029 (USNM). This is the original series from which the
type specimen comes. Other specimens were not cited in Meyrick's
description and therefore range only as topotypes.
Polemograptis Meyrick, 1910
Polemograptis stauroma, new species
Figures 56, 515
Female, 14 mm. Head and thorax somewhat dull greyish green,
sides of forehead pale ochreous, lower half of face yellowish white.
Palpus olive, median segment infuscated towards apex, a black spot
at apex above, terminal segment olive ochreous. Antenna grey, above
pale greenish grey.
Abdomen dark grey, venter white, touched wdth
yellow.
Forewing elongate-truncate, broadest at 1/3, costa rather ciu-ved
along anterior 2/3, gently sinuate posteriorly, apex almost rectangidar,
termen hardly concave, rounded beneath, vertical. Rather didl
light blmsh green, partially and slightly suffused with light emerald
green. A narrow pale oclu'eous-pinkish stria along costa from base to
apex, its lower edge irregvdarly serrate; this streak with some five
ferruginous-black dots along its anterior fourth, and with two triangular
larger dots, at 2/5 and 3/5, alternating with several small ferruginous
points and transverse strigidae tow^ards apex; some transverse
strigidae rising from dorsum, first six bright red, seventh ferruginous;
first streak broader and short, almost along base of dorsum, not
exceeding base of fold; following four tolerably parallel to one another,
slightly outwards-oblique, somewhat irregidarly bent basad above
upper edge of cell, second and third truncate at vein 12, fourth and
fifth attenuated above and running into the two triangidar costal
dots; sixth and seventh striae twdce as narrow, slightly zigzagged, less