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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
Palpus ochreous, median segment densely irrorated along the posterior 
half with dark fuscous, terminal segment about 1, dark fuscous. Thorax 
black. Abdomen fuscous-black, segments 2 — 6 with yellow posterior bands 
becoming narrower and shorter posteriorly, being interrupted sublaterally, 
preceded by scattered yellow scales, and fine bristles ; venter pale yellow. 
Legs orange-ochreous, anterior coxa whitish, this colour forming a trans- 
verse spot reaching over the shoulder and the lateral part of the patagium, 
anterior tibia and tarsus blackish-fuscous above, yellow-ringed, median 
and posterior tibia with a large apical black ring, median and posterior 
tarsus suffused with blackish-fuscous except towards the base and at the 
articulations of segments. Fore wing elongate-subtriangular, broadest at 
4 / 6 , costa considerably curved at the base, apex moderately rounded, 
termen tolerably straight, moderately oblique. Deep blackish-purple. 
Markings bright orange; a broad transverse outwardly oblique blotch 
from the dorsum, occupying it from beyond 2 / 5 to about 4 / 5 , inwardly 
oblique, reaching to vein 10 at about 4 / 5 of the wing length, crowned by a 
faint irroration of a few orange scales, hardly reaching the costa; anterior 
edge oblique, somewhat irregular, with short blunt projections between 
the veins, much projecting below the cell to the dorsal edge, posterior edge 
moderately convex, little oblique, with regular dentations on all veins ; the 
wing beyond patch lighter purple. Cilia purplish-fuscous, with the basal 
third purplish-black. Hind wing blackish -pm'ple; a broad slightly ante- 
median transverse bright orange fascia occupying about 4 / 3 of the wing 
breadth, anterior edge somewhat undulate, with an acute rising pro- 
jection below the middle, followed by a broader, sometimes truncate, 
incision of ground colour ; the edge of the fascia convex above this incision, 
acutely incised by the ground colour once more on the upper edge of the 
cell; posterior edge undulate, rather concave along its third fourth, convex 
below this ; this fascia on the costa of hind wing rather narrower than the 
base of the orange blotch in the fore wing; a broad quickly narrowed 
whitish subcostal streak from the base to the fascia. Cilia dark fuscous- 
purple, basal third blackish-purple. 
Seventh sternite with its caudal edge truncate, moderately emarginate. 
Limen hardly sclerotized. (Slide no. 957 D, holotype.) 
Hollandia, sea-level, July, 1938 (holotype), July 2 — 19, 1938. Bernhard 
Camp, 50 m, August 24, 1938. Three females. Closely allied to C. thrasydora 
Me v rick. 
Crocanthes xanthorrhoea spec. nov. (fig. 578) 
gav&og = yellow, geco = to flow 
$ 22 — 22.5 mm. Head fuscous-golden-bluish, faco pale yellow. Antenna 
fuscous, apical third sordid whitish. Palpus pale yellow, median segment 
with the upper edge narrowly light fuscous, this colour slightly extended 
