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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
Cryptophasa curialis clarinota subspec. nov. 
Darker coloured; leaden-grey spots more or less connected by a pale 
fuscous suffusion, covering the dorsum except its extremities and the 
disc to below the costa; often there are grey spots on the costa beyond the 
base, and at i/»; terminal markings very distinct; subterminal grey fascia 
anteriorly* with a series of jet-black longitudinal marks on veins 7 Ic, 
and with a series of fulvous transverse terminal blotches on the ends of 
the veins, sometimes almost forming a continuous fascia. 
Rattan Camp, 1150 m, February 6 , 1939; 1200 m, February 19, 1939 
(holotype), February 19—23, 1939. Sigi Camp, 1500 m. Nine males. 
Cryptophasa curialis pallida subspec. nov. 
Very pale; grey* discal markings faint, posteriorly not reaching bey T ond 
3 / s , mostly reduced to three to five spots, often almost entirely 'vanished, 
then the upper black mark on the end of the cell conspicuous ; subterminal 
black marks ill-defined. Sometimes the central part of the dorsum slightly 
suffused. 
Mist Camp, 1800 m, January 9 — February 19, 1939. Top Camp, 2100 m, 
January 22, 1939. Iebele Camp, 2250 m, February 17, 1938 (holotype), 
February 17 — 24, 1939. Moss Forest Camp, 2800 m, October 17, 1938. 
Twelve males. 
Cryptophasa iorhypara spec. nov. (figs. 664, 677) 
log = rust, ovjiaQo,; = dirty 
^ 34 36 mm. Head, thorax and abdomen white, touched with creamy, 
apex of the thorax with a large triangular chocolate-coloured spot, third 
abdominal tergite with a triangular coppery transverse band. Palpus 
white, median segment with the basal half above suffused with tawny, 
terminal segment over Vs- Antenna brown, mixed with white scales, scape 
white. Legs creamy-white. Fore wing elongate-subovate, moderately 
broad, costa little curved at the extremities, more so anteriorly, gently 
concave in the middle, apex rounded-rectangular, termen straight above, 
rounded beneath, vertical. White, touched with creamy, glossy. Base of 
the costal edge suffused with tawny; three hardly perceptible pale 
greyish-lilac suffused spots in the cell, forming an inverted triangle, two 
small spots of deep coffee-brown irroration on the closing vein; an irregular 
cloudy pale greyish-lilac suffusion along the dorsal half of the wing to the 
fold, accentuated by sparse scattered lilac-tawny scales towards the 
dorsum; a faint greyish-lilac shade forming an almost circular loop from 
beyond the lower angle of the cell to beyond its upper angle, reaching 2 /s 
the distance from the cell to the termen; the lower extremity of this mark 
