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jection; harpe absent. Vinculum rather broad. Anellus over half of the 
length of the aedoeagus which is long, slender. (Slide no. 896 D, type). 
Araucaria Camp, 800 m, March 17, 1939. One specimen. 
Cryptophasa hades spec. nov. (fig. 665) 
42 mm. Head dark fuscous-grey, appearing almost blackish in certain 
lights, frons rather pale greyish-fuscous. Antenna brown, dark tinged, and 
sparsely covered with whitish scales. Palpus dark brownish-fuscous, 
terminal segment under 1 / 3 , pale fuscous, mixed with dark fuscous. Thorax 
with the anterior half and the anterior inner angle of the tegula, dull 
brownish-black, posterior half rather pale fuscous-grey; patagium thick- 
scaled, glossy dark fuscous-grey, tegula fuscous-lilac. Abdomen dark 
fuscous-grey, tinged lilac except the anal tuft, second tergite with a broad 
band of yellowish bristle-clothing, showing through scales. Legs dark 
fuscous, anterior tibia and tarsus triangular, being strongly dilated with 
dense brownish-black scales, flattened. Fore wing elongate-subovate, 
little dilated, costa hardly curved, bent at 3 / 4 , apex obtuse, termen moder- 
ately rounded, rather oblique. Deep brownish-lilac-fuscous, with a slight 
gloss, dorsum anteriorly slightly suffused with paler greyish -lilac, dorsal 
edge from beyond the base to the tornus, with a cloudy brownish-black 
suffusion ; posterior fifth of the costa tinged deep coffee-brown ; a transverse, 
erect-triangular small spot on the closing vein, dull coffee-black, broadly 
edged except below with greyish-white scales, dark colour of the spot 
partially showing through these scales; terminal edge suffused with deep 
coffee-brown. Cilia greyish -fuscous, with a narrow whitish basal line, and 
a broader dark fuscous subbasal one. Hind wing dark fuscous-bronze, 
golden-bronze between veins 7 and 8, whitish above the latter vein. Cilia 
dark fuscous with a narrow, still darker subbasal line. 
Tegumen stronger than in the preceding species. Valva somewhat 
bioader, moderately curved; sacculus under 1 / 2 , with a haired projection 
below its top, directed distad. Vinculum narrow. (Slide no. 907 D, type.) 
Rattan Camp, 1200 m, February 23, 1939. One specimen. 
Cryptophasa psammochta Meyrick, 1925 
Cryptophasa psammochta Meyeick, 1925, Exot. Microl., vol. 3, pp. 147 — 148. 
Distribution: Netherlands New' Guinea: Nomnagihe, South of Wangaar 
River, 2000 feet; Fakfak, 1700 feet; Snow Mountains: Utakwa River. 
Mount Hager, 1650 m, February 18, 1938. One male. The thorax 
anteriorly is paler, and the abdomen less distinctly banded than in the 
type. Hollandia, sea level, April 1, 1938. 
