Bulletin - United States National Museum

Distribution:
MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 89
Philippine Is., Luzon.
Material examined: The original
material was from Luzon, Subprov.
Benguet, Pauai, Haights Place, 7000 ft., 12.XII.1912 (A.E.
Wileman), 2 cf 5 9 (Rothschild bequest, BM),
,
The printed label of this locality spells "Panai" for Pauai.
Cryptophlebia Walsingham, 1899
Cryptophlebia Walsingham, 1899, Indian Mus. Notes, vol. 4, p. 105.—Fletcher,
1929, Mem. Dept. Agric. India, Ent. ser., vol. 11, p. 61 (syn. of Argyroploce
Hubner).—Swezey and Zimmerman, 1946, Proc. Hawaiian Ent. Soc, vol. 12,
p. 629.—Bradley, 1953, Bull. Ent. Res., vol. 43, p. 682 (Pogonozada Hampson,
syn.).—Diakonoff, 1953, Verh. Ned. Akad. Wet., Nat. ser. 2, vol. 49,
no. 3, p. 156 (syn. of Pseudogalleria Ragonot); 1957, Tijdschr. Ent., vol. 100,
p. 136, figs. 11-15, 20, 22.—Clarke, 1958, Catalogue . . . Microlepidoptera
. . . Meyrick, vol. 3, p. 324,
Pogonozada Hampson, 1905, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 16, p. 586 (type
species, P. distorta Hampson, 1905, China)—Bradley, 1953, Bull. Ent. Res.,
vol. 43, p. 682 (syn. of Cryptophlebia Walsingham).—Diakonoff, 1953, Verh.
Ned. Akad. Wet., Nat., ser. 2, vol. 49, no. 3, p. 156 (syn. of Pseudogalleria
Ragonot).
Pseudogalleria (part), Diakonoff, 1953 (not Ragonot 1885), Verh. Ned. Akad.
Wet., Nat., ser. 2, vol. 49, no. 3, p. 156, fig. 369.
Type species: Cryptophlebia carpophaga Walsingham, 1899 (India)
[—C. ombrodelta hower, 1898].
Key to the Philippine Species of Cryptophlebia
1. Forewing with apical spot dark fuscous, finely obliquely strigulated; disc with
groups of numerous parallel lines
C. tetraploca
Forewing with apical spot ochreous fuscous, sometimes pinkish; disc without
such groups of lines 2
2. Male hindwing with a black raised spot in disc; female with a small irregular
mark above tornus
C. encarpa
Male hindwing without such spot; female with a ferruginous triangular spot
on dorsum before tornus
C. ombrodelta
Cryptophlebia (Cryptophlebia) tetraploca (Meyrick, 1928), new combination
Figures 100, 557
Argyroploce tetraploca Meyrick, 1928, Exotic Microlepidoptera, vol. 3, p. 446.
(cf, Mt. Makiling; New Ireland).—Clarke, 1955, Catalogue . . . Microlepidoptera
. . . Meyrick, vol. 1, p. 306.
Distribution: Philippine Is., ? New Ireland.
Material examined: Luzon, Mt. Makihng (Baker), 3 cf, genit.
slide 5012 (USNM). Luzon, Benguet Subprov., PalaU, 2000 ft.,
3.VIII.1913, 1 cf, genit. slide 5541; Rizal, Montalban, 17.VI.1914,
1 d", Mindanao, Lanao, plains, 19.V.1914 (A.E. Wileman) (BM).
Three specimens in the USNM doubtlessly belong to the type lot.
The present material forms a welcome addition to that available