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indistinct, darker gray dots and strigae; cilia gray, whitish at tips. 

 Length of forewing 10 mm. Hindwing white, slightly creamy; cilia 

 white, somewhat pale brownish at base. 



Female: Unknown. 



Male genitaUa: Uncus slender, slightly dilated and pointed at tip; 

 o;nathos fused in central portion with subscaphium; middle process 

 of gnathos short, acute; lateral processes lacking; lateral arms of 

 gnathos long, strongly curved, setose at tips and inner surface of 

 basal portion. Valva with a long, irregularly rounded and in basal 

 portion densely seted cucullus; sacculus with a broad, curved carina 

 ending with a brush of setae in a slight, rotundate projection of 

 ventral edge of valva; an elongate, rather flat, longitudinal harpe 

 costobasad of mentioned brush. Aedeagus with a rather long, narrow 

 tip; carina penis halfway between tip of aedeagus and caulis. 



Type: Holotype, male (genitalia on slide 13-Obr., 1963), Incachaca, 

 Cochabamba, BoHvia, tropical cloud area, 2100 m., between Aug. 27 

 and Sept. 5, 1956 (L. Pena); USNM 67371. 



Remarks: Differs from other species of the genus in having the 

 subterminal fascia of the forewing distinctly darker than the blotches. 

 Very characteristic is the presence of a harpe of the valva, distinct 

 in its shape and direction from that in ojphnoxantha, new species. 



Literature Cited 



Clarke, J. F. Gates 



1958 Catalogue of the type specimens of Microlepidoptera in the British 

 Museum (Natural History) described by Edward Meyrick, vol. 3, 

 (2) + 600 pp., 298 pis. 

 Common, I. F. B. 



1958. The genera of the Australian Tortricidae. Proc. 10th Int. Congr. Ent., 



vol. 1, pp. 289-295. 

 1963. A revision of the Australian Cnephasiini. Australian Journ. Zool., vol, 

 2, pp. 81-151, 3 pis. 

 Meyrick, E. 



1932. Exotic Microlepidoptera, vol. 4, pp. 193-352. 



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