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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
costa above that patch. Cilia purple. Hind wing orange-yellow, slightly 
paler than the fore wing, a blackish-fuscous dull patch along the termen, 
occupying about the posterior fifth of costa, narrowed below and reaching 
beyond the termination of vein 1c, edge somewhat irregular, moderately 
concave; a black pencil of hairs on vein lb from the base. Cilia blackish- 
fuscous around the dark patch and along the termen to before the tornus, 
yellow elsewhere. 
Uncus moderate. Valva slender, not dilated, bristled to before its base, 
cucullus obliquely truncate. Anellus broadly tubular, two short hooks at 
the apex. Vinculum rounded. Aedoeagus rather stout. Cornuti, a curved 
series of small teeth. (Slide no. 948 D, holotype.) 
Seventh sternite with caudal edge truncate, with a minute emar- 
gination. Limen, a thickened V-shaped body. Ductus bursae narrow, 
spiraled, with a slender long cestum (collum of spermatophore figured 
beside this). Signum, a small transverse band. (Slide no. 949 D, allo- 
type.) 
Bernhard Camp B, 100 m, April 9, 1938 (holotype, male), April 11, 
1938 (allotype, female), April 9 — 18, 1938. Bernhard Camp, 50 m, Sep- 
tember 19, 1938 (J. Olthof). Hollandia, sea level, July, 1938. One male, 
five females. An elegant, narrow-winged species, probably nearest to 
C. ignea Meyrick. 
Crocanthes megalophthalma spec. nov. (figs. 567, 580) 
ft eyas = large, orp&aXfiog = eye 
22 mm, $ 25 mm. Head dark greenish-grey, metallic. Antenna black 
in the male, greyish-fuscous in the female. Palpus whitish-ochreous, 
median segment suffused with black above and beneath, and towards 
apex, terminal segment black. Thorax purplish-black in the male, dark 
grey (damaged) in the female. Abdomen dark brownish-purple, in the 
female posterior edges of the segments with interrupted ochreous bands 
becoming pale yellowish towards, and on, the venter, almost obliterate 
on dorsum, in the male these bands distinct only on the venter. Legs dark 
purplish-fuscous, anterior femur, a median spot on the tibia below, spurs 
and tarsal rings suffusedly yellowish. Fore wing elongate-subtriangular, 
costa hardly curved towards extremities, straight in the middle, slightly 
prominent at '/ 4 and 3 /„, apex triangularly obtuse, termen tolerably 
straight, moderately oblique. Purplish-black, markings deep orange. 
A large erect-subovate dilated central patch occupying more than the 
median third of the wing and reaching from t / 3 to 4 / s of the disc, anterior 
edge tolerably vertical, with two acute anterior projections, on the lower 
edge of the cell and below the fold, respectively, upper edge gently convex, 
tolerably parallel to the basal half of vein 11, posterior edge gradually 
rounded, lower edge straight, parallel to the dorsum, running somewhat 
