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towards the extremities, faintly concave before the middle, apex obtuse, 
termen rounded, dorsum strongly bent at 1 / 3 . Pale ochreous, densely and 
irregularly (finer and coarser) irrorated with pale, and with dark fuscous. 
Costa finely irrorated with brownish-fuscous, from beyond the base to the 
middle, from 3 / 8 to the apex with five blackish-fuscous elongate spots 
extending over the cilia; a streak of coarse fuscous irroration along vein 
12. dilated in the middle; an ill-defined broad transverse band of sparse, 
coarse, dark fuscous irroration, from the upper edge of the cell to the 
dorsum at 1 / 4 ; a dense dark coffee-brown inverted-clavate, inwardly 
oblique spot along the closing vein, lower extremity truncate by the fold, 
upper extremity slightly curved apicad; a cloudy fuscous band beyond 
this, curved, tolerably parallel to the termen and tending to be inter- 
rupted opposite the upper angle of the cell, narrowed below, from -j s of 
costa, hardly reaching below vein 4; coarse and sparse irroration along 
the dorsum, confluent with the transverse bands and with the lower 
extremity of the clavate mark; a fuscous-tawny marginal suffusion from 
the apex to the tornus, narrowed below, marked with dark fuscous 
longitudinal suffused blotches from the apex to vein 4, more or less con- 
fluent with rounded blackish spots on terminations of veins, from the 
apex to the tornus; veins beyond the cell more or less streaked with 
fuscous. Cilia with the basal half ochreous- white, apical half light tawny- 
fuscous, from the apex to the tornus with broad blackish bars opposite 
the veins. Hind wing pale golden-ochreous tinged fuscous, a faint fuscous 
submarginal shade extended so as to form a suffusion between the cell 
and the apex, and a larger, more distinct shade occupying the tornal 
fourth of the wing; a suffused fuscous V-shaped mark along the closing 
vein, point basad; veins fuscous; margin of the wing slightly suffused 
with tawny and marked with blackish, suffused round dots on the termi- 
nations of the veins. Cilia light fuscous with pale base, and w it h blackish- 
fuscous bars opposite marginal dots from vein 8 to vein lb; dorsal cilia 
darker fuscous. 
Ostium indefinite, surrounded by membraneous folds. Two ovate plates 
above the ostium, covered with very strong setae. (Slide no. 1119 D, type.) 
Moss Forest Camp, 2600—2800 m, October 9— November 5, 1938. One 
specimen. 
Cryptophasa Me Leay, 1805 (fig. 653) 
Cryptophasa Mac Leay, 1805, in Lewin, Lep. N. S. Wales, p. 11. Walsingham, 
Lop. llet. Mus. Oxon., vol. 2, p. 542, 1900. Meyrick, Exot. Micro!, vols. 2 4, 
1916 — 1930. Fi.etciieb, Mem. Agric. Inc!, Ent., vo! 11, p. 61, 1929. 
Nycterobius Freeman, 1852, Life of Kirby, p. 227 (non descr.). . 
Maroga Walker, 1864, List Lep. Het. Brit. Mus., vol. 29, p. 827. 
Zitua Walker, 1866, ibidem, vol. 35, p. 1841. 
Pilostibes Meyrick:, 1890, Trans. Roy. Soc, S. Austral., vol. 13, p. 
Cryptophaga, Meyrick (emend.), ibidem, pp. 26—28, 1890. 
Caenorycta Meyrick, 1922, Entom. Mitteil., vo! 11, p. 45. 
