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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
Anticrates argyroplintha chrysaema subs pee. nov. 
■/ovaog = gold, alfia = blood 
$ 16 mm. Head crimson, frons crimson mixed with yellow, face pale 
yellow edged pale crimson. Antenna yellowish, towards base mixed and 
handed with crimson. Palpus pale golden-yellow, basal segment and base 
of median slightly suffused with pink. Thorax deep crimson, patagium 
broadly edged posteriorly with bright yellow-golden, tegula pale yellow 
except shoulder, tip crimson. Legs pale yellow, anterior femur and tibia 
orange suffused with pink, anterior tarsus orange, median knee suffused 
with pink. Fore wing subtrapezoid-elongate, costa gently curved, apex 
obtuse, termen hardly sinuate, oblique, dorsum strongly rounded at base. 
Deep crimson suffused with fuscous-purple above fold and beyond cell, 
except towards costa and along edges of light markings; a deep crimson- 
orange streak along middle half of dorsum, not reaching fold, narrowed 
towards extremities, connected with a narrow yellow streak along anterior 
1 l i of dorsal edge from beyond base; markings brilliant light yellow; a small 
triangular spot on middle of base; a large elongate-triangular patch 
occupying middle third of costa, with somewhat rounded top reaching 
slightly below middle of wing, its posterior angle connected with a smaller 
oblique-subtriangular costal spot suffused with deep golden-yellow, reaching 
to apex, anterior edge almost vertical, posterior very oblique, limited below 
by course of vein 7; a transverse, inwardly oblique mark at 1 / 4 from fold 
to above dorsum, extremities rounded and slightly dilated, posterior edge 
formed by raised scales; a round patch above dorsum slightly before 
middle, scales raised towards posterior edge; a broader erect-ovate out- 
wardly oblique patch at 4 / 5 of dorsum, with top not reaching middle of 
disc: brilliant light yellow, towards dorsal edge suffused with deep golden- 
yellow. Cilia light yellow, slightly suffused with orange towards base, a 
crimson bar above apex, a ferruginous-crimson patch in tomus and on 
lower fourth of termen. Hind wing pale orange, semipellucent, becoming 
light orange along margins. Cilia light orange. 
Sigi Camp, 1500 m, February 24, 1939 (holotype). Mist Camp, 1800 m, 
January 12, 1938. Two specimens. Differs from the nominate form chiefly 
as follows; smaller; not evenly dark purplish; the yellow costal patch 
with lower edge notched beyond middle much deeper; the dorsal spots 
brilliant light yellow (instead of silver) ; terminal streak extended from 
the apex almost to the tomus, yellow (in the nominate form situated 
along the upper half of the termen, silvery). We owe this information 
to Mr. Bradley, who kindly compared a sketch of our type specimen 
with Meyrick’s type of argyroplintha in the British Museum. 
Lactura Walker, 1854 
Lactura Walker, 1854, List Lep. Het. Brit. Mus., vol. 2, p. 485. Turner, Proc. 
Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, vol. 28, p. 84, 1903. Meyrick, ibidem, vol. 32, p. 86, 1907. 
