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pale fuscous-whitish, apical third light greyish-fuscous, a shadowy fuscous 
median band forming darker bars opposite the marginal dots, almost 
interrupted between these bars. Hind wing rather dark greyish-fuscous 
with a bronze gloss, veins dark brown; cilia whitish, with a grey ante- 
median shade. 
Male genitalia very similar to those in C. pseudogramma. Tegumen 
longer, narrower. Valva longer, apex more blunt, not curved; sacculus 
over 2 / 8 , apex with a blunt hook above ; harpe less gradually narrowed, its 
top slightly curved, less pointed. Vinculum longer, narrower, its free part 
longer and more pointed. (Slide no. 873 D, type.) 
Moss Forest Camp, 2600 — 2800 m, October 23, 1938. One specimen. 
Closely allied to C. pseudogramma Meyrick in which, however, the dark 
suffusion of the wring is never so intense as to obscure the discal marks 
entirely; the male genitalia are also sufficiently different. 
Cryptophasa curialis Meyrick, 1925 (fig. 673) 
Cryptophasa curialis Meyrick, 1925, Exot. Microl., vol. 3, p. 149; ibidem, vol. 
4, p. 14, 1930. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., vol. 87, p. 516, 1938. 
Distribution : Netherlands New Guinea : Nomnagihe, 2000 feet ; Utakwa 
River, 3000 feet; Weyland Mountains, 6000 feet; Papua: Mafulu, 4000 
feet, and Kokoda, 1200 feet. 
Basal 2 / 3 of the median segment of the palpi suffused wdth black below ; 
two minute longitudinal jet-black marks on the upper and the lower 
angles of the cell in the fore wing which are not mentioned in the original 
description; they are especially distinct in paler forms. Abdominal tergites 
covered with small fine coppery-reddish bristles, almost entirely concealed 
by dense woolly scaling. We could discriminate three following distinct 
subspecies of this considerably varying species, corresponding with the 
altitude of the localities. 
Cryptophasa curialis curialis Meyrick (fig. 673) 
Rather pale; leaden-grey spots scattered all over the disc from the base 
to before the termen, rounded, less confluent ; costa and dorsum white, not 
suffused. Discal black points present, subterminal distinct. 
Tegumen moderate. Gnathos with a robust top. Valva gradually 
narrowed and moderately curved from the middle; sacculus about 1 / 2 , apex 
forming a thickened pad with a pointed horn, directed obliquely basad; 
harpe bent beyond its apex, rather broad, w ith a moderately 7 rounded top, 
its upper surface dentate, its lower edge concave in the middle. Anellus 
broad, about 1 / 2 of the aedoeagus which is rather thick, with a gradually 
dilated base. (Slide no. 893 D.) 
Araucaria Camp, 800 m, March 8 — 26, 1929. Four males. 
