MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
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Genotype Acriotes saprocarpodes spec, nov., female. 
An isolated genus, possibly allied to Diaphorodes Turner, 1947, from 
Queensland. The origin of vein 8 in the fore wing, from below the angle 
of the cell, is peculiar. Superficially this insect reminds of the Xyloryctid 
genus Acria. 
Acriotes saprocarpodes spec. nov. (figs. 697, 704) 
acuiQog = rotted, xagnodeg = fruit-like 
$ 19 mm. Head, palpus and thorax dark grey, face, a narrow basal ring 
of the terminal segment of the palpus and scaling of the proboscis white. 
Antenna pale pink, banded with dark grey, scape dark grey above, except 
the apex. Abdomen fuscous-ochreous. Legs fuscous-whitish, coxae white, 
anterior leg dark grey, white-ringed, rings of the tarsus tinged pale pink. 
Fore wing elongate-ovate, narrowed beyond the middle, dilated again 
towards the termen; costa strongly arched anteriorly, prominent at 1 / 3 , 
moderately concave beyond the middle, with a triangular projection of 
cilia before the middle, another shorter one at 3 / 4 , hence costa appearing 
deeply excavate, apex strongly rounded, termen rounded, almost vertical. 
Costal 2 / 3 from the base to the vein 8, light yellow, wing elsewhere pale 
greyish-fuscous, slightly tinged yellowish, markings dark fuscous-grey. 
A suffused elongate spot on the base of the costa; costal cilia to before 
the middle, pinkish, mixed with fuscous; a suffused greyish subcostal 
streak interrupted into three spots, dilated posteriorly, from beyond the 
base to the excavation; cilia along the latter yellowish- white, beyond this, 
pale pink; a suffused dark fuscous-grey streak from the base just above 
the dorsal edge to before 1 j i of the dorsum; rows of rounded, rather 
irregular, inequal dots, along veins 1 1 — 10 from the cell to the costa, and 
about three longitudinal rows in and above the cell, arranged thus : along 
posterior half of the upper edge, above this, and from the base just above 
and along the fold, this row more distinct, its dots larger, becoming 
obscured and obliterate towards the end of the fold; a larger suffused spot 
in the centre of the cell before the middle; a somewhat curved, slightly 
outwards-oblique, broad, dark fuscous-grey patch just beyond the cell, 
from vein 8 to the end of the dorsum, mottled with roundish points of the 
ground colour; two faint suffused small spots on vein 12 well below the 
costa; an ill-defined cloudy dark fuscous-grey patch occupying the 
posterior fourth of the costa, sub triangular, narrowed below and faintly 
continued to the tornus by two curved rows of suffused dots, somewhat 
obscured by faint light greyish-fuscous suffusion, becoming ill-defined 
posteriorly and merging in the base of the post-cellular patch; termen 
beyond this patch suffused with greyish-yellowish- white; a dark greyish - 
fuscous marginal line from the costa to the tornus, extended between the 
terminations of the veins, so as to form round dots. Cilia along the 
