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Lactura ophiucha Meyrick, 1924 
Lactura ophiucha Meyrick, 1924, Exot. Microl., vol. 3, p. 123. 
Distribution: British New Guinea, Biagi, Mambare River, 5000 feet. 
Genitalia of Lactura Walker. Fig. 773: anaemoptila spec, nov., male. Fig. 774: 
aureocuprea Walker, male, type (in the Hope Museum, Oxford, England). Fig. 
775: erythrodendron spec, nov., male. Fig. 776: conflagrans Walker, female. Fig. 
777: vulnerosa spec, nov., female. 
Lactura ophiucha xanthodes subspec. nov. 
gav&odig = yellowish 
$ 45 — 49 mm. Head pale yellow, face black, collar pale yellow. Palpus 
blackish mixed above with crimson. Abdomen deep rosy-crimson. Crimson, 
densely irrorated and suffused throughout with blackish-fuscous ; oehreous- 
