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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
32 . A row of blackish dots along posterior half of costa becoming smaller towards 
a p 0X arythmologa Me y rick 
Costal dots, if present, not thus • ■ ■ 
32. Discal markings : a group of round leaden-grey spots along median third of disc 
curialis Meyrick 
Discal markings not thus 3-3 
33. Male with two greyish spots on closing vein centred with black, sometimes a 
ferruginous subterminal band, female with ferruginous suffusion more or less 
extended anteriorly, sometimes forming a long outward loop from middle of 
cell to before termen iorhypara spec. nov. 
Discal markings blackish, irregular, not thus arranged . oecodoma Meyrick 
Cryptophasa arythmologa Meyrick, 1938 
Cryptophasa arythmologa Meyrick, 1938, Trans. Entom. Soc. Lond., vol. 87, p. 517. 
Distribution: Netherlands North New Guinea, Cyclops Mountains. 
Araucaria Camp, 800 m, March 9 — 19, 1938. Rattan Camp, 1200 in, 
February 19, 1939. Top Camp, 2100 m, January 22, 1939. Ten males, 
47—53 mm. With the dark markings moderately varying : the ocellus on 
the closing vein is more or less distinct, sometimes connected with costa 
by an oblique suffused dark streak, sometimes almost obliterate. 
Cryptophasa pseudogramma Meyrick, 1930 (figs. 669, 670) 
Cryptophasa pseudogramma . Meyrick, 1930, Exot. Microl., vol. 4, pp. 14 15. 
Distribution: New' Guinea, Sudest Island, Mount Rice: 2000 feet. 
£ 50 57 mm Head white, a transverse band between the bases of the 
antennae and side-tufts, mixed with light grey. Palpus w hite, basal half 
laterally suffused with blackish. Thorax whitish tinged pale ochreous, 
moderately mixed with greyish-fuscous. Abdomen fuscous-grey. Legs 
whitish, mixed with dark grey, anterior tarsus blackish, white-ringed, 
posterior leg whitish, tibia clothed with long dark grey hairs above. Fore 
wing elongate-truncate, moderately broad, dilated to the middle, costa 
moderately curved, more so anteriorly, apex very blunt, termen little 
rounded, vertical above, more rounded, moderately oblique beneath. 
Whitish tinged pale ochreous, suffused with grey except along costa, densely 
irrorated with dark fuscous; markings dark fuscous. Base of costa 
moderately infuscated; five suffused spots along the costa from slightly 
before the middle to the apex, becoming smaller and more approximated 
posteriorly: a transverse vertical patch in the middle of the disc at 1 / 3 , 
reaching from the upper edge of the cell to the fold, somewhat constricted 
in the middle, top rounded, base dilated; preceded by a moderate longi- 
tudinal spot above the fold; a circular mark on the upper angle of the 
cell, more or less connected by a dark irroration with the first costal spot ; 
a second, less regular, ring-like mark, more shifted basad, so mew hat larger 
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