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to the base of the dorsum; an ill-defined large semicircular bronze-tawny 
patch occupying the middle half of the dorsum and reaching to the middle 
of the wing, with a faint coppery gloss in certain lights; apex and termen 
to the tornus narrowly suffused with dark lilac-grey; a small dot of the 
same colour on the dorsum before the tornus. Cilia fuscous grey, pale grey 
in the tornus, an interrupted dark grey antemedian band, apical third of 
the cilia towards the apex of the wing, tinged fulvous. Hind wing glossy 
pale ochreous, veins and the apical and the terminal edges tinged tawny; 
cilia sordid ochreous-whitish, with a faint interrupted greyish antemedian 
shade. 
Tegumen erect. Uncus long, with a bidentate top. Socii small. Gnathos 
strong, arms undulate, top truncate, robust. Valva narrowed, its lower 
edge concave, its top little curved, blunt; sacculus under 1 / 2 , broad, 
ending in a strong, curved, and pointed projection, with a streak of short 
bristles from its middle to the top. Vinculum rounded. Anellus 3 / 4 . (Slide 
no. 878 D, type.) 
Mount Hager, 3650 m, March 17, 1939. One specimen. The shape of the 
uncus and the gnathos suggest a generic difference. 
Cryptophasa ensigera Meybick, 1925 
Cryptophasa ensigera Meyrick, 1925, Exot. Microl., vol. 3, pp. 150 — 151. 
Distribution: British New Guinea, Dampier Island. 
Idenburg River, August 19, 1938. One male. 
Stachyneura Diakonofe, 1948 
Stachyneura Diakonoff, 1948, Treubia, vol. 19, pp. 191 — 192, fig. 3. 
Key to the species of Stachyneura 
1. Fore wing with cell suffused with rosy iostigma Diakonoff 
Fore wing with cell not suffused with rosy sceliphrodes Meyrick 
Stachyneura sceliphrodes (Meybick, 1925) 
Cryptophasa sceliphrodes Meyrick, 1925, Exot. Microl., vol. 3, p. 150. 
Stachyneura sceliphrodes, Diakonoff, Treubia, vol. 19, p. 192, fig. 3, 1948. 
Distribution: Netherlands New Guinea: Nomnagihe, 2000 feet; Weyland 
Mountains, 6000 feet. 
Bernhard Camp, 50 m, January 9, 1939. One female. 
Eriogenes Meybick, 1925 
Eriogenes Meyrick, 1925, Exot. Microl., vol. 3, p. 159. Fletcher, Mem. Agrie. 
Ind., Ent., vol. 11, p. 84, 1929. 
Meybick regarded this genus to be related with Agriophara (Steno- 
midae) which is certainly erroneous. The insect is a true Xyloryctid, is, 
