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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
the reduction of the leaden-grey discal spots, by the ferruginous irroration, 
and by the genitalia. 
Cryptophasa aggesta Meyrick, 1925 
Cryptophasa aggesta Meyrick, 1925, Exot. Microl., vol. 3, p. 147. Trans. Ent. Soc. 
Lond., vol. 87, p. 516, 1938. 
Distribution: Netherlands New Guinea: Utakwa River, 3000 feet. 
British New Guinea: Dampier Island, 3000 feet; Papua, Mafulu, 4000 feet; 
Kokoda, 1200 feet. 
$ 55 mm (neallotype). Palpus darker greyish-fuscous. Abdomen with a 
broad orange-coppery band of fine bristles on the dorsum of the second 
segment. Fore wing broader, dilated, costa considerably curved towards 
the extremities, especially anteriorly, less curved in the middle, apex 
obtusely angular, termen little rounded above, more so beneath. Fuscous- 
whitish, costal half gradually suffused with fuscous, this suffusion broader 
and darker than in the male, transverse outwardly convex mark on the 
closing vein broader and more conspicuous: fuscous-blacldsh; the entire 
wing more distinctly speckled with fuscous-blackish. Hind wing darker, 
evenly fuscous, with faint bronze gloss, cilia somewhat paler, with a fine 
pale basal line. Otherwise as the male and, in my opinion, undoubtedly 
conspecific. 
Rattan Camp, 1200 m, February 17 and 23, 1939. Two males. Araucaria 
Camp, 800 m, February 21, 1939: neallotype, female. Three specimens. 
Cryptophasa chlorotis spec. nov. (fig. 660) 
•//.ojQOT/js = greenish 
$ 33 — 48 mm. Head and thorax greenish-wliite, mixed with blackish. 
Palpus pale greenish-white, basal segment throughout and median segment 
except its apex, suffused with fuscous, sometimes the upper edge of the 
median segment spotted with blackish, terminal segment with the basal 
half fuscous, apical greenish-white, or this segment entirely fuscous. 
Abdomen pale ochreous, densely suffused with fuscous except the anal 
tuft and the ill-defined anterior edges of segments, this suffusion forming 
ill-defined transverse bands posteriorly, third segment with a broad 
dorsal band of fine shining coppery-orange bristles. Legs whitish tinged 
greenish, more or less infuscated and mixed with blackish, tarsi brown. 
Fore wing elongate, dilated, truncate, costa curved at the base, slightly 
concave in the middle, before the apex oblicjue, curved, apex obtusely 
pointed, termen moderately rounded, little oblique. Pale whitish-green, 
coarsely speckled with blackish, markings blackish and fulvous-brown. A 
narrow suffused light tawny streak along 2 / 3 of the costa, followed by four 
