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the top just not reaching the middle of the costa; anterior edge of this 
patch irregularly and moderately undulate, its base cut by a short narrow 
attenuated streak of the ground colour, projecting posteriorly along the 
dorsal edge ; posterior edge finely indent on the veins of the lower half of the 
disc; a transverse subrectangular mark along the closing vein, slightly 
dilated above (situated above and before the centre of the orange patch). 
Cilia dark fuscous-purple. Hind wing blackish-fuscous, a very broad deep 
orange slightly postmedian transverse fascia, occupying about the middle 
half of the wing breadth, basal area moderately angulate in the middle, 
tolerably straight above and below the angulation; posterior edge of the 
fascia broadly rounded, from 4 / 5 of the costa to the terminal edge before 
the termination of the fold; this fascia includes a transverse spot along 
the closing vein, as large as that of the fore wing, but more regularly 
rectangular, with the anterior edge slightly concave. Cilia dark fuscous- 
purple. 
Uncus moderate, narrowed, its top truncate; ventrally two weak 
longitudinal folds of the tegumen below the base of the uncus (perhaps 
indicating the gnathos). Valva distinctly sinuate, only cucullus sparsely 
bristled. Anellus broad, rather short, with a moderate, fine-bristled 
projection at each side above. Aedoeagus short, with a strongly dilated 
base. (Slide no. 1)41 D, type.) 
Araucaria Camp, 800 m, March 25, 1939. One specimen. Nearest to 
C. eurypyra Meyrick. 
Crocanthes heliocharis spec. nov. (figs. 576, 582) 
ij/.iog = sun, yaQLQ = beauty 
c? 17 mm, $ 18 mm. Head and thorax bronze-fuscous, antenna deep 
purplish-fuscous. Palpus golden-yellow, median segment along posterior 
half infuscated, the terminal segment dark fuscous. Abdomen bright 
yellow, an erect dark fuscous dorsal patch from the third segment to the 
apex, anterior extremity rounded, on segment 6 extended to a ring, inter- 
rupted on the venter, occupying this entire segment, on the tergite 8 
narrowed to a triangular spot. Legs yellow, anterior leg blackish above, 
median knee, a broad apical ring of median tibia, and tarsus above, 
blackish, posterior leg with blackish femur, apex of tibia, spurs and tarsus. 
Fore wing with veins 7 and 8 stalked, 9 connate; elongate-subtriangular, 
rather narrow, broadest beyond 3 / 4 ; costa gently curved anteriorly, 
moderately bent before the apex, apex triangularly pointed, termen little 
rounded, oblique. Deep orange, markings blackish-fuscous. A large basal 
patch occupying slightly more than 2 / 6 of wing, above cell extended to 
before 2 / 3 of the costa, along the dorsum with a moderate attenuated 
streak to the tornus, the edge of the patch between these extensions more 
or less irregularly undulate, inwardly oblique; a transverse moderate 
