Metaemene satellita Holloway sp. n.

♂♂, ♀♀ 8-10mm. The forewing facies has the more distal pink patches in a different configuration to niasica and all other species in the complex: PMa is absent; PMc forms a more or less continuous but irregularly bordered oblique bar with T. Black dots Pd1, Pd2 and Ad are enlarged, and may have small satellite dots to their anterior. In the male genitalia, the ventrally directed spine on the tegumen is sinuous. The valve process is single, apically rounded, but usually has an interior tooth. The basal part of the interior margin of the cucullus is produced into an acute process. The spoon of the aedeagus vesica is strongly concave, with two unequal spines on the opposing part. The female genitalia have a drop-like sclerite in the neck of the corpus bursae with a moderate hooked spine at its apex, and with a much smaller one near the base of that.

Holotype ♂

SARAWAK: Santubong Mt., 300m, 9.ix.1981 (Oxford Far East Exped.), BM noctuid slide 20274.

Paratypes

1♂ (slides 20340) as holotype; 1♂ (slide 20341) as holotype but 10.ix; 2♂♂ (slides 20156, 20273), 1♀ (slide 20277) as holotype but 100m, and dates 2.ix, 3.ix and 6.ix; 1♀ (slide 20384) SABAH: 5m. S. Mt. Trus Madi, 1800ft., 18-28.viii.1977 (M.E. Bacchus).

Taxonomic note

Two males and a female from Site 8 and a female from Site 16 (dipterocarp and alluvial forest near the foot of G. Mulu) have genitalia (slides 20328, 20329, 20283, 20387) as in satellita but facies more as in niasica, with PMa present and separated from PMc. These may represent a further species.