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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
grey, almost blackish along the lower edge, terminal segment with a fine 
blackish line along the anterior edge. Thorax light fuscous-grey. (Abdomen 
missing.) Legs grey, anterior tibia and tarsus blackish above, pale-ringed 
on the articulations. Fore wing elongate-subovate, costa considerably 
curved along anterior half, straight posteriorly, apex pointed, termen 
moderately sinuate, oblique. Pale fuscous, suffused with light grey, 
tinged lilac. Costa narrowly suffused with darker fuscous-grey; about the 
apical seventh of the wing suffused with darker lilac-grey, the edge of 
this suffusion ill-defined, tolerably vertical; discal stigmata small, rounded, 
well-defined, blackish-brown: first supramedian, at 1 / 3 , second median, 
at 3 / 6 . Cilia pale fuscous, with a broad dark fuscous-grey median shade. 
Hind wing pale fuscous-grey, with a faint bronze gloss; darker towards 
the apex, whitish along the costa. Cilia pale fuscous. 
Bernhard Camp, 50 m, July 1, 1938. One specimen. 
Crocanthes Meyrick:, 1886 
Crocanthes Meyrick, 1886, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1886, p. 277. Gener. Ins., fasc. 
184, p. 231, 1925. Fletcher, Mem. Agric. Ind., Ent., vol. 11, p. 59, 1929. Gaede, 
Lepid. Catal., part 79, p. 509, 1937. 
Aprosoesta Turner 1919, Proc. R. Soc. Queensl., vol. 31, p. 151. 
Male genitalia with tegumen moderate, erect. Uncus long or short, 
fine-bristled laterally, pointed. Gnathos absent. Transtilla absent. Valva 
narrow, elongate, cucullus rounded, sparsely covered with slender bristles, 
sacculus mostly ill-defined, \inculum small, slender, rounded. Anellus, a 
large plate supporting aedoeagus from below, fine-bristled towards top 
laterally, which is emarginate, sometimes anellus almost bipartite. 
Aedoeagus rather stout, moderately long. C'ornuti, a dense patch of 
bristles. 
Female genitalia with the ostium little modified, limen mostly a short 
transverse narrow band. Ductus bursae simple. Bursa copulatrix rounded. 
Signum, if present, a weak crescentic sclerite with thickened upper edge. 
Key to the Malayan and Papuan species of Crocanthes 
(Malayan species are placed between brackets) 
1. Dark fuscous; a blackish spot on end of cell, preceded by a grey spot, followed 
by a g re y bar, a pale grey line from a white costal spot at 3 / 4 to tornus 
phaeograpta Meyrick 
Not thus 9 
2. Ground colour yellow or orange, posterior l / 4 — 2 / a and sometimes a narrow basal 
patch fuscous or blackish-purple, no other markings or stigmata 3 
Not thus ^ 
3. A small basal patch and posterior third of wing fuscous . . platycitra Meyrick 
No basal patch, posterior 1 / 2 - 2 /s of wing blackish-purple! . . hemipyra Meyrick 
4. Dark fuscous, purplish or black, with orange, yellow or whitish markings . . 5 
Crimson, orange or yellow, with fuscous, purple or black markings 27 
