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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 83
except base, median segment suffused with white, except a lateral
spot at base and at upper angle, lower angle blackish, a few orange
scales along outer edge of median segment internally. Thorax
^\ith a slight posterior crest. Posterior tibia with closely appressed
scales.
Fore-wing mth a long and rather narrow costal fold, reaching
beyond middle; costa slightly curved throughout, apex roimded and
prominent, termen concave above, obliquely rounded beneath.
Pale whitish olive, appearing ribbed by dark fuscous (dark fuscous
scaples wdth pale bases), strongly marbled and transversely strigulated
^\^th dark fuscous, spaces between markings on posterior half of wing
filled out Adth grey. Costa dark fuscous, towards base suffused
^vith olive; a somewhat oblique quadrate spot of white irroration
before middle of costa,
extending across wing to upper edge of cell,
five pairs of white strigulae along posterior 2/5 of costa, each pair
continued across ^\dng by very oblique leaden-grey streaks, all converging
in one point before apex of mng; anterior two pairs of white
markings very small, the following two pairs moderate, the ultimate
pair longest; apex of wing dark fuscous, lower half filled out \\itli olive,
dark fuscous marbhng tending to form irregular transverse inwardsoblique
lines; ocellus ill defined, oblique, transversely oval, pale
leaden grey, cut by a slender, wedge-shaped dark fuscous mark,
penetrating from termen; a distinct dark fuscous marginal line, cut
below apex by a small white bar, extending over cilia. Ciha along
upper 3/4 of termen fuscous, becoming whitish olive along its lower
fourth; a faint supramedian pale line, beyond this ciha dark fuscous.
Hindwdng dark fuscous with a bronze gloss, ribbed (scales with
light bases), becoming pale fuscous grey on basal half, veins dark
fuscous throughout. Ciha bro\Mi fuscous wdth a darker subbasal
line.
Male genitaha: Of Olethreutine type, in spite of a Eucosmine
neuration! Tegumen rather high. Uncus slender, bicornute, points
curved. Socius large, pending. Gnathos slender, sacculus 1/2,
ending in a curved, porrect hook, top bristly. Cucullus with a
strongly constricted base. Spca, a patch of stiff bristles, Spcs, a
bunch of long, curved bristles. Aedeagus moderate, caulis long,
cornuti, a sheaf of spines.
Luzon, Mt. Makiling (Baker), 1 cf, holotype, genit. slide 5154
(USNM).
Strepsicrates Meyrick, 1887
Strepsicrates Meyrick, 1887, Trans. New Zealand Inst., vol. 20, p. 73 (type
species: Sciaphila ejectana Walker, 1863, Australia); 1911, Proc. Linn.
Soc. New South Wales, vol, 36, p. 227 (syn. of Spilonota Stephens).