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white dots along terminal margin to apex. Cilia along costa and around 
apex dark brown with white bars opposite marginal markings, on termen 
and dorsum fuscous-whitish, a cloudy dark subbasal shade around apex 
and along upper half of termen. Hind wing leaden -whitish, glossy, cilia 
ochreous-grey-whitish. 
Tegumen small with a cardiform dorsal plate. Uncus pared, lobes 
rounded, lower edge with brush-like bristles and a blunt point below top. 
Gnathos absent. Valva elongate-ovate, disc with a longitudinal short- 
haired thickening towards base. Vinculum with a paired saccus. Anellus 
triangular. Aedoeagus extremely long, slender, sinuate. Cornuti absent. 
(Slides no. 1130 1), holotype, figured in ventral aspect, and no. 1131 D, 
paratype, in ventrolateral aspect.) 
Scree Valley Camp, 3800 m, November 22, 1938 (holotype). Letterbox 
Camp, 3600 m, September 9, 1939. Six specimens. The male genitalia 
approach closely the type of those in the European species of this genus, 
as figured by Pierce ( loc . cit.). 
Head smooth, side-tufts and back of vertex appressed-scaled. Ocellus 
absent. Proboscis vestigial, short, both halves diverging, scaled. Antenna 
over 1 / 2 , in male serrulate, fasciculate-ciliated, ciliations over 1, scape 
moderate, without pecten. Labial palpus moderate, moderately curved, 
ascending, slender, rather smooth, median segment not reaching base of 
Fig. 751: Porphyr aerates aurostricta gen. nov., spec, nov., male, head and wing 
neuration. 
Porphyrocrates gen. nov. (fig. 751) 
noQtpvgeog = purple, xgarog = strength 
