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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 37
vol. 13, p. 633 (syn. of Phricanthes) —Diakonoff, 1966, Zool. Verb. Leiden
no. 85, p. 85. [type species: Protypanthes hrjhristis Meyrick, 1933.]
The male genitalia, especially the bifid uncus, suggest a high degree
of speciaUzation and would assign the genus in the vicinity of such
highly modified forms as Ehoda; Meyrick placed it in the "Peronea"
group. The evidence of the female genitalia, however, is rather
surprising and somewhat contradictory. The signum of P. hiocellana
actually is decidedly Archipine (although modified). The
genus belongs in the AustraUan Scolioplecta group of the Tortricini.
There is a striking similarity of the characteristic bifid uncus with
that in some Oecophorid forms (Hypertrophinae), but this resemblance
must be incidental.
Phricanthes biocellana (Walker, 1863), new combination
Figures 49, 54, 519
Carpocapsa biocellana Walker, 1863, List Lepidopterous Insects British Mus.,
pt. 28, p. 411 (cf, Borneo).
Distribution:
Borneo.
A small series of four specimens in good condition enabled me
not only to redescribe this rare and hardly known species, but also
to ascertain its proper place in the system. This species appears
to be not an Olethreutine at all, but to belong to the genus Phricanthes
of the Tortricinae.
The characteristically colored and marked species with the distinct
facies of the present genus may be redescribed as follows:
Male, 20 mm. Head shining bright metallic olive, lower edge
of face dull pale yellow suffused across middle with grey, collar mh:ed
with dull white. Antenna dark fuscous, scape dark fuscous with a
fine white longitudinal line above, white beneath. Palpus rather
long, porrected and strongly flattened laterally, gently sinuate,
lower edge short-cihate; white, with three oblique transverse pairs
of jet-black dots, towards apex above palpus suffused with grey,
terminal segment short,
exposed, slender and obtuse, greyish, whitetipped.
Thorax fuscous mLxed with sordid white (tips of scales
fuscous), breast pure white. Legs white, suffused with yellowish
and irrorated and banded with dark fuscous above. Abdomen
fuscous grey, venter paler.
Forewing elongate truncate, costa little curved at base, straight
posteriorly, apex and tornus equally and strongly rounded, termen
short, convex, little oblique. Whitish, densely covered with short
thick blackish-fuscous strigulae, transverse and vertical, towards
termen becoming slightly curved and outwards-oblique, forming
together a more or less continuous reticulate pattern which partially
is obscured by dark fuscous suffusion. Anterior half of costa with