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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
as far as the termination of vein lb, before this point orange-yellow. 
Uncus moderate. Valva dilated, bristled to the middle, cucullus rounded; 
sacculus indicated. Vinculum erect-subovate. Anellus moderate, forming 
a slender furca. Aedoeagus slender. Cornuti absent. (Slide no. 950 D, holo- 
type). 
Seventh sternite excavate caudally, bristled throughout. Ostium simple 
with a bristled rim. Ductus bursae narrow. Bursa copulatrix large. Signum 
horseshoe-shaped, denticulate. (Slide no. 951 D, allotype.) 
Rattan Camp, 1200 m, February 27, 1939, holotype, male, allotype, 
female. Two specimens. 
Crocanthes sceptrophora spec. nov. (figs. 572, 574) 
oxrjmoov = staff, (pegco = to bear 
18 mm, $ 20 — 21 mm. Head metallic dark grey with greenish gloss, 
sides of the vertex and face purplish-black. Antenna purplish-fuscous in 
the male, dark purple in the female, apical halt in the two sexes snow- 
white, apical tenth in the female black. Palpus in the male purplish, lower 
edge of the median segment white, terminal segment 1 / 2 , in the female 
deep purple, terminal segment over 1. Thorax metallic greenish-black, 
posterior edge and tips of the tegulae ochreous-whitish ? (damaged). 
Abdomen in the male bright amber -yellow, in the female dark yellow, 
tinged brownish above, except the posterior edges of the segments. Under- 
side of the body light yellow, prosternum and mesosternum purple- 
blackish, coxae yellow, anterior and median femora purple-blackish. Fore 
wing with veins 8 and 9 stalked, 10 separate; narrowly elongate-sub- 
lanceolate, dilated, broadest at J / 5 , costa slightly curved at the base, 
subconcave in the middle, curved towards the apex, apex obtusely pointed, 
termen considerably rounded, oblique. Bright orange-yellow. A moderate 
basal patch, dark purple in the male, greenish-black in the female, its 
edge somewhat irregular., outwardly oblique, convex. Other markings deep 
purple; a large transverse blotch occupying somewhat less than the second 
fourth of the wing from the dorsum to the upper edge of the cell, with 
anterior edge irregularly serrate, somewhat inwardly oblique, with 
posterior edge sending oil five streaks arranged as follows : one along each 
veins 11 and 10, narrow, dilated towards costa; two somewhat broader, 
less regular streaks, submedian and subdorsal, first of these trifid pos- 
teriorly; a fifth longitudinal broader well-defined streak above the middle 
of the wing, gradually dilated posteriorly; all these streaks merging into a 
terminal purple patch occupying the posterior fourth of the wing from 
the termination of vein 9 to just above the tornus, connected by a suffused 
marginal streak with the termination of the purple streak along vein 10; 
a narrow purple line along vein 12 from 1 / 5 of the wing to the costa, at 
the origin connected with the purple patch, a few purple scales along the 
