MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
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Crocanthes anactostola spec. nov. (figs. 570, 571) 
aVaf = king; rtroAij = gown 
20 mm. Head glossy pale yellow, vertex light pink. Antenna light 
ochreous, pinkish towards the base. Palpus moderately flattened laterally, 
median segment somewhat roughish beneath, terminal segment moderately 
thickened, articulation inchstinct; pale ochreous, touched with pink 
towards the base and the apex. Thorax pink mixed with pale ochreous 
dorsally ? (damaged), collar pale yellow, crimson laterally and in the 
middle, tegula pale yellow, crimson at the base. Abdomen and legs pale 
ochreous, anterior and median tinged yellowish, femora and tibiae 
fuscous-grey above. Pore wing with veins 8 and 9 out of 7 ; elongate, rather 
narrow, little dilated, costa moderately curved anteriorly and before the 
apex, slightly concave in the middle, apex pointed, termen concave above, 
rounded beneath. Yellow, densely suffused with light orange-crimson, this 
colour leaving irregular spots of the ground colour: one elongate below 
fold beyond the base, one slightly oblique at 4 / 4 above the middle, a longi- 
tudinal larger spot in the middle of the disc, a small ill-defined spot below 
this and an elongate larger spot just above the dorsum before the end of 
the cell; an indication of a transverse series of spots across wing at 4 / 5 , 
beginning with a large ill-defined spot on costa. Markings suffusedly 
fuscous, ill-defined; a dark suffused spot on the base of the costa, and some 
cloudy suffusion occupying the costal half of the basal fourth of the wing, 
a small yellowish streak on the costa beyond the base; a small subovate 
rather dark fuscous spot on */ 4 of dorsum, pointed posteriorly, connected 
with a suffused narrow dorsal streak along the torn us to the lower l j A of 
the termen; a tolerably straight transverse fascia from 1 / 3 of the costa to 
the dorsum beyond the middle, slightly extended posteriorly between vein 
lb and the dorsum; its anterior edge indefinite, posterior edge rather well- 
defined, slightly undulate; a fuscous costal streak from this fascia to 2 / 3 
and an indefinite cloudy subcostal suffusion converging with this streak 
posteriorly; an irregular transverse outwardly convex fascia from 2 / 3 of 
the costa to the tornus, outwardly oblique, anteriorly dentate on the 
veins, posteriorly between the veins, almost connected with the second 
discal stigma which is moderate, suffused, dark fuscous; this fascia is 
edged along the costa by a small whitish -yellow streak; a narrow ill- 
defined line running along vein 2 from the tornus to the cell and is con- 
nected by faint fuscous irroration with the first transverse fascia above its 
base ; a suffused wedge-shaped subterminal patch occupying less than the 
posterior fifth of the wing, becoming obsolete towards the costa, leaving a 
narrow orange-crimson marginal streak in the apex and along the upper 
3 / 4 of the termen, connected below with the marginal streak from the 
tornus. Cilia pale yellow, along the costa before the apex fuscous, opposite 
the apex pinkish, in the tornus fuscous. Hind wing pale yellow, tinged 
