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ill the middle, apex very blunt, termen slightly rounded, little oblique. 
Rather light fuscous, densely and irregularly irrorated with deep blackish- 
purple. Base of the wing mixed with whitish-ochreous scales which are 
followed by a small and faint transverse blackish suffusion, not reaching 
the costa and hardly reaching the dorsum ; anterior 2 / 5 of the costa suffused 
with darker fuscous ; a snow-white patch along the costa from beyond 2 / 5 
to well before the apex, rather narrow, elongate-semiovate, with its lower 
edge rather irregular, moderately suffused; two small suffused fuscous- 
purple dashes, on the terminations of veins 9 and 10, respectively, anterior 
dash almost separating a small white costal dot from the preceding white 
costal patch ; a moderate transverse suffused discal spot on the closing vein, 
dilated below, deep purple; a ferruginous marginal band along the costa 
before the apex, in the apex and along the termen, edged anteriorly by an 
ill-defined deep purple transverse band, from below the costa to the 
tornus, gradually dilated above (below tending to fall apart in a row of 
spots on veins), running tolerably parallel to the edge of the wing, except 
above, w T here it is outwardly convex; a large round snow-white dot on the 
dorsum before the tornus followed by another minute dot, almost in the 
tornus. Cilia light ferruginous, broadly barred with black, a narrow pale 
ochreous basal line. Hind wing deep fuscous, an interrupted suffused pale 
ferruginous-ochreous marginal band in the apex and along the upper half 
of the termen; base and dorsum with dense long dark fuscous hairs. Cilia 
dark fuscous, posterior half, except towards the dorsum, glossy whitish- 
ochreous, with a pale ochreous basal line. 
Valva broad, triangularly narrowed, apex slightly curved; sacculus very 
broad, under x / 2 , its upper edge with three blunt projections posteriorly. 
Vinculum moderate, rather broad. Anellus 2 / 3 . (Slide no. 876 D, holotype.) 
Araucaria Camp, 800 m, March 10, 1939. Two specimens. Closely allied 
to C. chionosema Meyrick. 
Cryptophasa geron spec. nov. (fig. 667) 
yegcov = grey -haired 
32 mm. Head and scape of the antenna whitish, tinged pale ochreous. 
Palpus whitish, tinged pale ochreous, basal segment and median segment 
except its apical fourth, suffused with greyish-fuscous. Thorax whitish 
tinged pale-ochreous, suffused with fuscous-grey, becoming darker towards 
the apex. Abdomen whitish-ochreous, anal tuft ochreous- tawny. Legs 
light ochreous-tawny, anterior infuscated. Fore wing sub triangular, 
dilated, costa little curved, obliquely bent before the apex, apex blunt, 
termen hardly sinuate, almost straight, little oblique. Grey, faintly tinged 
lilac, becoming pale grey and irrorated with dark grey along the terminal 
fourth; costa throughout narrowly suffused with light ochreous-tawny; 
an elongate-ovate, whitish, tinged pale ochreous patch from the base of 
the costa to beyond 1 / 3 , this colour extending over the base of the wing 
