Chundana metaemenoides Holloway sp. n.
♂ 7mm. The wing markings consist of pink patches and black dots on a white ground, resembling Metaemene species and lacking the brown suffusion that obscures this in lugubris. The black dots are not linked by any fine black fasciae and are larger than in lugubris, particularly a central subbasal one on the hindwing and three antemedial ones on the forewing; these have a more transverse, slightly angled course. There are several black spots around the forewing margins and marking the position of the postmedial on the costa and the dorsum. The forewing also has a basal spot that is absent in lugubris. The genitalia have the typical saccular spining on the ventral margin of the valve, but there is a single spine only, rather than two, and it is connected to the costa by a transverse ridge, more as in emarginata Hampson. The cucullus of the valve is simple, narrowing to a rounded apex, the costa lacking the lobes or spines seen in Bornean species apart from lugubris. The uncus is slender, single as in emarginata and lugubris, longer than in the latter.
Holotype ♂
SARAWAK: Kuching, Semongok, 3-9.ii.1976 (E.W. Classey), BM noctuid slide 20285.
Geographical range
Borneo.
Habitat preference
The only specimen is from a lowland forest remnant within an area of cultivation.
Genitalia:



