MICROLEPIDOPTERA OE NEW GUINEA 
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before the apex, terminal segment pale fuscous. Thorax greyish-fuscous, 
with a slightly purple-bluish gloss. Abdomen fuscous, with broad light 
yellow bands, occupying segment 3 entirely, segments 2 and 4 except 
their anterior edges, on segments 5 — 6 narrow, laterally not interrupted; 
venter entirely pale yellowish. Legs pale yellow, partially infuscated, 
especially the tarsi above, posterior tibia mixed with fuscous above, with 
a fuscous apical ring. Fore wing with costa curved anteriorly, straight 
posteriorly, apex rather rounded, termen straight above, rounded 
beneath, moderately oblique. Purplish-fuscous, markings rather light 
orange-yellow; a broad transverse inwardly oblique blotch from the 
dorsum, occupying it from before its middle to 4 / 5 , almost reaching the 
costa at 4 / 6 ; anterior edge of this blotch oblique, slightly irregular, tolerably 
straight, hardly projecting below cell, its posterior edge convex, moderately 
crenidated (apex of this patch mostly more rounded than in C. philotima). 
Cilia purplish-fuscous, basal third darker. Hind wing purplish-fuscous, a 
broad rather light orange-yellow median transverse fascia gradually 
dilated towards the costa, on costa broader than the base of the patch in 
the fore wing, anterior edge somewhat irregular, tolerably straight, an 
irregular subacute projection below the middle, followed above by a 
triangular incision of the ground colour; posterior edge of the fascia 
tolerably straight, hardly concave, diverging from terminal edge down- 
ward. Cilia purplish-fuscous, basal third darker. 
Seventh sternite with the caudal edge ovate, considerably emargi- 
nate. Limen more sclerotized than in philotima. Ductus bursae long, 
narrow. Bursa copulatrix simple. (Slide no. 958 D, holotype.) 
Bernhard Camp, 50 m, April 13, 1930 (holotype). Mountain slope above 
Bernhard Camp, 600 m, April 4 — 13, 1938. Hollandia, sea level, July 19, 
1938. Four females. Closely allied to the preceding species and to C. 
thrasydora Meyiiick. 
Crocanthes leucodonta spec. nov. (figs. 569, 583) 
Aevaog = white, odotic. = tooth 
c? 20 mm, $ 24 mm. Head light greyish-fuscous with a lilac shine, face 
and sides of the crown whitish-ochreous. Palpus in the male with the 
terminal segment modified: slightly under 1, moderately thickened, 
cylindrical, with a fine longitudinal furrow along its inner side, apex 
subacute, basal third more thickened with roughish somewhat projecting 
short hairs, apical two-thirds smooth; whitish-ochreous, basal segment 
dark fuscous, median segment strongly irrorated with dark fuscous except 
towards its apical fourth and along the lower edge which is flattened and 
slightly roughish; terminal segment fuscous-grey with a lilac gloss, its 
basal third tinged whitish-ochreous ; in the female palpus normal, whitish- 
ochreous, median segment moderately irrorated with dark fuscous, upper 
