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suffused with whitish-ochreous, which colour is interrupted by small 
longitudinal dark fuscous marks on the terminations of the veins 11 — 9; 
a moderate subcostal darker grey streak from the base to before the 
apex, scattered with a few white scales; a suffused white streak just above 
the cell from the base to about 2 / 5 , another one, narrow, well-defined, 
from the upper angle of the cell to the costa just before the apex; an 
irregular narrow deep brownish-ferruginous streak just bel w these two 
streaks, running from beyond the base to before the apex, and interrupted 
before the middle of the wing; its lower edge bearing a small narrow 
transverse appendix at 1 / 3 of the cell, a small triangular one at 2 / 3 , and two 
larger diverging short lines forming an invert V on the end of the cell, 
closed below by a very faint curved line; preceding streak edged below 
in the middle of the disc by whitish-ochreous suffusion tinged pale pink; 
a suffused, subtriangular deep ferruginous spot in the fold before the 
middle of the wing; base of the wing and of the dorsum whitish, mixed 
with bright ferruginous scales; a moderate deep fuscous-purple terminal 
band, slightly irrorated with whitish-ochreous anteriorly; a row of faint 
suffused triangular fulvous-tawny dots on the ends of the veins, continued 
as faint streaks on the veins: in the apex and along the termcn to the tornus, 
apical spot largest; dark fuscous-purple scales scattered all over the wing. 
Cilia pale ochreous with a faint tawny antemedian line, broadly barred 
with brown, basal half of the bars blackish. Hind wing dark fuscous- 
bronze, paler towards the costa, with a coppery gloss, which becomes 
purplish towards the dorsum; cilia concolorous with those of the fore 
wing, bars less numerous towards the dorsum, their blackish bases 
extending over the edge of the wing as small semicircular spots. 
Ostium simple. Limen, a narrow transverse rod. Two large rounded 
lobes above the ostium, covered with dense, rather fine bristles. (Slide 
no. 875 D, type.) 
Araucaria Camp, 800 m, March 11, 1939. One specimen. Nearest to 
C. sepiogramma Meyrick. 
Cryptophasa ranunculus spec. nov. (fig. 676) 
g 41 — 48 mm . Head and patagia very densely scaled, fuscous-brown, 
tips of the scales pale. Antenna dark fuscous, towards the base above 
whitish. Palpus pale fuscous-tawny becoming pale whitish-tawny towards 
the apex, median segment with the dorsal half suffused with dark fuscous. 
Thorax with the anterior half (partially concealed by the tegulae) deep 
coffee-brown, posterior half pale oehreous-lilac, tegula pale ochreous 
touched with lilac, basal third deep coffee-brown, edge of this colour well- 
defined, inwardly oblique. Abdomen densely haired, light golden -ochreous, 
dorsally tinged greyish anteriorly, brownish posteriorly, valvae clothed 
with long, dense, jet-black hair-scales. Legs densely haired, anterior 
