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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
tarsus over 1, strongly thickened, ochreous suffused with brown, tibiae 
and tarsi dark brown above, anterior tarsus deep ferruginous. Fore wing 
with vein 2 from beyond ®/ 6 , 3 — 5 rather remote, equidistant, 7 and 8 
stalked, to t he termen; elongate, moderately dilated, broadest at 4 / 5 , costa 
little curved at the base, straight posteriorly, bent and prominent at 4 / 5 , 
gently curved beyond this point, apex obtusely angular, termen hardly 
rounded above, more so beneath, moderately oblique. Light glossy 
ochreous-fuscous, towards the base of the wing, and the base of the 
dorsum, suffused with pale ochreous; costal half suffused with dull 
brownish-fuscous, tinged lilac, this suffusion paler below, extending over 
the central part of the wing from 4 / 6 to 4 / s ; a faint transverse leaden-lilac 
glossy suffusion at '/ 4 extending over the lower 2 / 3 of the wing, outwardly 
oblique, dilated on the dorsum, edging the above mentioned pale ochreous 
colouring of the wing base; a conspicuous deep coffee-brown mark on the 
end of the cell, in shape strongly reminding of a tadpole, formed by a 
round spot on the closing vein, with a short rounded projection above 
and a slender pointed appendix below, along the fold, pointing towards 
the tornus ; a narrow suffused brown marginal streak from the apex to the 
tornus; sparse deep coffee-brown scattered scales becoming smaller 
towards the tornus; cilia light brownish-fuscous, tinged lilac, with a pale 
basal line. Hind wing densely long-haired on the dorsal third; light golden- 
ochreous-fuscous, glossy, somewhat darker fuscous posteriorly, cilia light 
golden-ochreous, tinged fuscous. 
Valva rather short, narrowed from before the middle, top slender, 
curved; sacculus about */ 2 , ending in a sickle-shaped hook, with a streak 
of short bristles from before the middle to the top. Vinculum long. Anellus, 
one half the length of the aedoeagus. (Slide no. 877 D, holotype.) 
Araucaria Camp, 800 m, March 10, 1939 (holotype), March 8 — 19, 1939. 
Five males. A very distinct species. 
Cryptophasa chionotarsa Meyrick, 1925 
Cryptophasa chionotarsa Meyrick, 1925, Exot. Microl., vol. 3, p. 148. 
Distribution : Netherlands New Guinea, Nomnagihe, South of Wangaar 
River, 2000 feet. 
Cryptophasa chionotarsa brunnea subspec. nov. (figs. 653, 666) 
$ 43 mm. Hind wing glossy deep fuscous-bronze, cilia fuscous-bronze, 
with a golden gloss (in the typical form the hind wing and the cilia, grey). 
Fore wing with the patch of white speckling before the termen rather ill- 
defined. Otherwise similar to the typical form. 
Tegumen short. Top of the gnathos rather pointed. Valva narrow, with 
apical third slender; sacculus broad, 1 / 2 , ending in a strong pointed pro- 
