MICBOLEPID OPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
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Toxopeia demodes spec. nov. (figs. 762, 764) 
dt)fi<i>8r]S = common 
$ 11.5 mm. Head, antenna fuscous. Palpus fuscous, base of median 
segment whitish, terminal segment dark fuscous with a narrow oblique 
submedian transverse band. Thorax fuscous, apex and tips of tegulae 
paler, touched with fulvous. Abdomen sordid pale fuscous, venter 
whitish-fuscous. Legs fuscous, tarsi pale-ringed. Pore wing subovate, 
dilated, broadest at 4 / s , costa curved towards extremities, little so in 
middle, apex obtuse, termen gently sinuate above, rounded below. 
Tawny-fuscous, suffused with dark fuscous towards base, beyond cell 
becoming paler fuscous-tawny, tinged golden; a few silvery-white scales 
scattered along and below fold. Cilia fuscous-bronze. Hind wing fuscous- 
white with strong golden gloss, cilia fuscous-bronze. 
Ovipositor with pointed lobes. Ostium simple, not modified, two small 
bristly rounded lobes above ostium. Ductus bursae short, cestum a plicate 
thin sclerite at its base. Bursa copulatrix elongate-ovoid. Signa, an 
elongate patch of fine dentations. (Slide no. 1134 D, type.) 
Iebele Camp, 2250 m, November 6, 1938. One specimen. 
Anticrates Meybick, 1905 
Anticrates Mevrick, 1905, Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc., vol. 16, p. 612. Proc. 
Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, vol. 32, pp. 83-84, 1907. Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc., 
vol. 23, p. 129, 1914. Lepid. Catal., part 19, p. 32, 1914. Fletcher, Catal. Ind. 
Ins., vol. 17, p. 20, 1928. Mem. Agric. Ind., Ent., vol. 11, p. 16, 1929. 
Pyrozela Meyrick, 1906, Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc., vol. 17, p. 414. Lepid. 
Catal., part 19, p. 32, 1914. 
Key to the Papuan species of Ayiticrates 
1. Yellow with crimson markings 2 
Crimson with yellow markings 3 
2. Three transverse fasciae, not interconnected haematantha Meyrick 
Four transverse fasciae, partially interconnected by longitudinal and oblique 
jj arg hygraema Meyrick 
3. Seventeen spots scattered all over wing magocosma Meyrick 
Not thus 4 
4. An oblique median transverse fascia, a fasciate spot in tornus, apical third 
yellow with red veins rutilella Pagenstecher 
Not thus 5 
5. Thorax crimson, a yellow round spot on shoulder 
argyroplintha chrysaema subspec. nov. 
Thorax crimson, posterior half yellow argyroplintha Meyrick 
Anticrates argyroplintha Meybick, 1938 
Anticrates argyroplintha Meyrick, 1938, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., vol. 87, p. 524. 
