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Bulletin - United States National Museum

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52 U.S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 25 7<br />

Acanthothyspoda elaeodes Lower, 1908 (Australia), Trans. Roy, Soc.<br />

South Australia, vol, 32, p, 319,<br />

Argyroploce i^hyllochlora Meyrick, 1905 (Ceylon); Clarke, 1958,<br />

vol, 3, p. 535, pi. 266, figs. 2-2b, 3-3a, 4-4c.<br />

=ptilosema Meyrick, 1916.<br />

Argyroploce temenopis Meyrick, 1936 (Formosa); Clarke, 1958, vol. 3,<br />

p. 535, pi. 266, figs. 4^c, in my opinion not a synonym of phyllochlora.<br />

Argyroploce camarotis Meyrick, 1936, (India) ; Clarke, 1958, vol. 3,<br />

p. 549, pi. 244, figs. 3-3a.<br />

Argyroploce stygiaula Meyrick, 1933 (Java); Clarke, 1958, vol, 3,<br />

p. 552, pi. 275, figs. 1-la.<br />

Argyroploce prasinias Meyrick, 1916 (India, China); Clarke, 1958,<br />

vol. 3, p. 540, pi. 269, figs. 2-2b.<br />

Eudemis (Acanthothyspoda) chortodes, new species.<br />

Eudemis (Acanthothyspoda) homalopa, new species.<br />

Argyroploce sphaerocopa Meyrick, 1929 (Indo-China).<br />

Argyroploce margaritopa Diakonoff, 1953 (New Guinea).<br />

Key to the Philippine Species of Subgenus Acanthothyspoda<br />

1. Forewing green, transverse fascia blackish, rhomboidal (cf ).<br />

E. (A.) chortodes, new species<br />

Forewing greenish, transverse fascia obUterate (9).<br />

E. (A.) homalopa, new species<br />

Eudemis (^Acanthothyspoda) chortodes, new species<br />

FiGUEES 77-78, 528<br />

Male, 14 mm. Head light olive green. Palpus light olive green,<br />

basal segment whitish, median segment with a whitish base and two<br />

sufTused blackish dots in a transverse series above middle. Antenna<br />

pale ochreous. Thorax ochreous yellow, apex mixed with green,<br />

patagium bright green. Abdomen with white venter, dorsum dark<br />

grey, sides with five pairs of slate grey scale brushes. Legs grey<br />

with a strong silvery gloss, posterior tibia strongly extended and<br />

dilated triangularly with a thick brush of appressed scales, glossy<br />

grey, blackish on the inside, with a white lateral streak, posterior<br />

spur, apex of tuft and inner side of posterior tarsus pure white.<br />

Forewing truncate-oval, rather broad, costa considerably curved<br />

throughout, apex obtuse, termen straight, long, little oblique. Light<br />

glossy greyish green, around edges suffused with rather bright green,<br />

except along termen and in tornus. Markings dark green and<br />

fuscous black. Basal patch indefinite, basal third of wing with three

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