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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
Fig. 653: Cryptophasa chionotarsa Meyrick, male, wing neuration and head. 
Key to the Papuan species of Cryptophasa 
1. White or yellowish with longitudinal orange lines: costal, median and plical 2 
Not thus 
2. Large: 57 mm. whitish-yellowish crocochorda Meyrick 
Smaller: 41 mm, glossy-white anvphicroca Meyrick 
3. Median and posterior tarsi snow-white chionotarsa Meyrick 
Tarsi not thus ^ 
4. Markings confined to margins of fore wing or altogether absent . . . . . 5 
Markings also diseal, or only discal, sometimes faint or small, but still clearly 
perceptible ® 
5. No markings, sometimes pale ochreous or greyish suffusion in dorsum or 
tornus . 
Not thus 
6. Pale brownish-ochreous vacuefacta Meyrick 
Silvery -white psiloderma Diakonoef 
7. Densely suffused throughout with dark fuscous .... obscura, spec. nov. 
Whitish-ochreous, costal */ 3 fuscous phaeochta Meyrick 
Brownish-lilac-fuscous, a triangular blackish spot on end of cell hades spec. nov. 
8. Fuscous-purple, costa with a snow-white elongate spot posteriorly ... 6 
Costa without such snow-white spot 10 
9. A snow-white spot on dorsum before tornus, a minute one in tornus .... 
chionacra, spec. nov. 
No’ such spots • • chionosema Meyrick 
10. Fore wing pale whitish-green, speckled with blackish, markings fulvous-brown 
chlorotis spec. nov. 
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Not thus 
