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Hindwing fuscous bronze, cilia concolorous, with a pale ochreous
basal line.
Female genitalia: Sterigma much extended and corrugated, evenly
covered throughout with numerous dense and short hairs. Posterior
edge with a V-shaped excision beset with a row of bristles.
small, cup-shaped. Signa absent.
Ostium
Material examined: Luzon, Rizal, Montalban, 4.1.1914 (A.E.
Wileman), 1 9, holotype, genit. slide 5530.
Allied to B. ephippias (Meyrick), new combination, but larger,
brighter colored, with quite distinct genitalia.
Bubonoxena ephippias (Meyrick, 1907), new combination
Figures 81, 99, 801-802
Chrosis ephippias Meyrick, 1907, Joum. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 17, p. 731
(cT? Ceylon, India),— Diakonoflf, 1954, Zool. Verb., no. 22, p. 57 (no Lobesia).—Clarke,
1955, Catalogue . , . Microlepidoptera . . . Meyrick, vol.
1, p. 128.
Polychrosis ephippias.— Meyrick, 1909, Joum. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc, vol. 19,
p. 587; 1918, Ann. Transvaal Mus., vol. 6, p. 11; 1923, Trans. Roy. Ent.
Soc. London, p. 547.—Fletcher, 1932, Imp. Counc. Agric, Res., Sci. Mon.,
no. 2, p. 26, pi. 17, figs, a-d (life hist., stages, India).
Distribution: India, Ceylon, Tonkin, Java, Philippine Is. (occurrence
not proven). Natal, Rodriges Is.
Very probably more than one species is involved.
Using this opportunity the lectotype of "Chrosis" ephippias Meyrick,
1907, is selected herewith, a male syntype specimen, labelled
as follows: "Puttalam, Ceylon, Pole, 10.04" (small printed label),
"Polychrosis ephippias Meyr., 22/4, E. Meyrick det., in Meyrick
Coll.," "Meyrick Coll., B.M. 1938-290," genit. slide 5687. A syntype
female specimen studied, with similar labels, but number "22/5,"
has the genit. slide 5688.
Tetramoera, new genus
Head with roughly appressed scales, parted on vertex, tufts on
crown appressed and broadly spreading. Ocellus posterior. Proboscis
very short. Antenna in male shghtly thickened, serrulate
except along basal fifth, minutely pubescent. Palpus porrected,
triangularly dilated, with a roughish upper edge of median segment
and a projecting small tuft at apex below, terminal segment moderate,
pointed, more or less concealed. Thorax smooth. Posterior
tibia with bristly scales projecting beyond its apex.
Forewing elongate; markings usually numerous longitudinal lines.
Vein 2 from 3/4, 4 separate, closer to 3 than to 5, 7 free, to termen,
9 separate, 10 from before 2/3 distance between 11 and 10, 11 from
before middle, parting veins complete, lower of these from close to