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towards the apex, last one subapical ; these four marks interconnected by 
a minute sinuate marginal line; a strongly curved fascia from towards 
the end of the first mark to the tornus, narrow and interrupted below the 
costa, formed by seven wedge-shaped well-defined interneural dots 
opposite the apex and the termen, with their tops pointing distad; third 
of these dots much smaller, fourth to sixth almost subovate, last remote, 
vertical; small triangular dots of dark fuscous irroration on the termina- 
tions of the veins in the apex and along the termen, more or less inter- 
connected by a minute marginal line. Cilia white, with a dark fuscous 
interrupted antemedian fascia, between the interruption the base of the 
cilia tinged pale oclireous. Hind wing pale fuscous-isabel, less pale towards 
the apex. Cilia white, basal thud pale fuscous-isabel. 
Uncus, a slender, long, little curved projection. Gnathos pending, with 
sinuate arms, forming a U-shaped basal portion, and a long slender, little 
curved hook. Valva intricately shaped, divided in a bowed narrow basal 
half and a plicate and bristled apical half, ending in a slender pointed 
cucullus. Transtilla moderately broad, V-shaped. Vinculum much flat- 
tened. Furca, two strong triangular sclerites. Aedoeagus extremely short, 
tubular; cornuti, two serrate plates. (Slide no. 904 D, holotype.) 
Rattan Camp, 1200 m, February 22, 1939 (holotype, male). Araucaria 
Camp, 800 m, March 4, 1939. Two specimens. 
Agriophara Rosenstock, 1885 (figs. 683, 684) 
Agriophara Rosenstock, 1885, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., series 5, vol. 16, p. 439. 
Fletcher, Mem. Agric. Inc!., Ent., vol. 11, p. 9, 1929. Nec Agriophara Meyrick, 
1913, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1913, p. 182. Busck, Lepid. Catal., part 67, p. 8, 
1934 (synonym of Chlamydastis Meyrick, 1916). 
According to Busck {Lepid. Catal. part 67, p. 8, 1935) the American 
group of species attributed by Meyrick to this genus belongs to Chlamy- 
dastis Meyrick ( Exot . Micr., vol. 1, p. 481, 1916) of which Agriophara 
Meyrick nec Rosenstock [Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1913, p. 182) and 
Ptilogenes Meyrick, 1917 are the synonyms. This limits the region of the 
true Agriophara species to Australia and New Guinea. 
We owe to the kindness of Mr. Bradley a photograph (fig. 684) of the 
male genitalia (mounted by Mr. Clarke) and sketches of the head and 
of the wing neuration (fig. 683) of the genotype, Agriophara cinerosa 
Rosenstock, 1885, from Australia. These show that the following five 
species belong to the present genus. In all of them the anterior tarsus is 
longer than the tibia, and not dilated. The veins 3 and 4 in the hind wing 
are connate or short-stalked, according to the original description, but 
these veins may also be distinctly separate in closely related species. 
Our scanty material, completed by two more species from other col- 
lections, may be divided in three groups. 1) cinerosa type: greyish, fore 
