Bulletin - United States National Museum

MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 77
or entirely interrupted between veins. Cilia pale greenish olive,
partly infuscated, tips slightly mLxed with brown.
Hind\nng modified, venation reduced, cell open, termen incised
on vein 5, dorsum curved downward and forming scent pouches.
Pale ochreous orange, edge with a broad continuous band of blackish
suffusion, upper edge of cell and veins 7 and 8 darker. Ciha pale
ochreous orange with white tips, a paler basal Une and a dark suffused
subbasal band.
Male genitaha: Tegumen elongate, strong. Uncus bipartite, flattened
above and bent forward. Socius large, with sclerotized upper
edge. Gnathos darkly sclerotized, mth a median spHt, crowned
with two oval lobes. Valva rather slender, sacculus knob moderate,
cucullus elongate-oval, obhque, lower angle with short spines.
A single specimen with rubbed dorsum. The genitaha show a
close relationship -w-ith Peridaedala crastidochroa Diakonoff, from
New Guinea.
Female, 18 mm. Similar to the male, but deeper colored, with
markings darker, confluent in center of disc and suffused with brown
along median third of Aving. Palpus Avith median segment about
the half of that in P. dendrochlora.
Unfortunately both specimens lack the abdomen and one hindwing
also; therefore it is not possible to describe the female genitaha.
Material examined: Mindanao, Davao Prov., east slope of Mt.
McKinley, 17.IX.1946 (CNHM Phihppine Zool. Exped. 1946-47,
H. Hoogstraal), 1 cf, holotype, genit. shde 5729. Luzon, Benguet
Subprov., Haights Place, Pauai, 7000 ft., 7.XI. 1912, 1 9, allotype;
12.XI.1912, 1 9, paratype.
Female, 30 mm.
Peridaedala melanantha, new species
Figures 124-125, 547
Head and scape of antenna pale whitish green,
face greenish white. Flagellum of antenna fuscous. Palpus long,
sinuate-porrected, pale whitish green, basal segment, and basal
half of median except below, black. Thorax bright greenish yeUow,
narrow edges to markings pale whitish green; a large black spot on
shoulder; anterior half of thorax black with a narrow greenish white
median line, collar mLxed with black. Abdomen fuscous grey,
with a faint bronze gloss.
Forewing oblong sub triangular, dilated, broadest before angle;
costa moderately curved, more so before apex, apex subrectangular,
obtuse, termen gently convex, little oblique. Bright greenish yellow,
duU, narrow edges to markings pale whitish green, glossy; markings
velvety black, well defined. An irregular trapezoidal spot on base
of costa, followed by six costal spots; two anterior of these subclavate,