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Fernald, Genera Tortric., pp. 18, 58, 1908. Walsinc.ham, Biol. Centr. Amer., Het., 
vol. 4, p. 298, 1914. Pierce, Genit. Brit. Tortr , p. 26, 1922. Fletcher, Mem. 
Agric. Ind., Ent., vol. 11, p. 50, 1929. Catal. Ind. Ins., vol. 22, p. 4, 1931. 
Clysiana Fletcher, 1941, Entomologists Rec., vol. 52, p. 17. Diakonoff, 
Treubia, vol. 18, pp. 397—398. 
Key to the Papuan species 
1. A transverse dark antemedian fascia present neurosema Meyrick 
No transverse fascia scytalephora spec. nov. 
Clysiana scytalephora spec. nov. (fig. 12) 
oxvrahi — a club, (pcgiu = to bear 
$ 15 mm. Head, antenna and palpus pale ochreous tinged brownish, 
median segment of palpus slightly infuscated towards base. Thorax pale 
ochreous irrorated with brownish. Abdomen dark fuscous, paler towards 
base, with pale ochreous-whitish gloss. Legs pale ochreous, anterior tibia 
and tarsus infuscated, pale-ringed. Fore wing elongate, dilated, broadest 
at 3 / 4 , costa little curved at base, straight beyond base, faintly bent at 3 / 4 , 
Fig. 12: Clysiana scytalephora 
spec, nov., female genitalia. 
apex narrow, obtuse, termen gently concave, very oblique. Pale ochreous 
with golden gloss, sparsely transversely strigulated, and banded with dull 
ochreous, markings dark fuscous. Base of costa with a small suffused dark 
brown spot, followed by four small dots, a moderate triangular spot at 
3 / 5 ; this spot suffused with pale greyish-fuscous below costa, with a blackish 
streak along costal edge; this spot followed by four minute transverse 
strigulae, and by four subtriangular moderate dark fuscous dots along 
posterior 2 / 5 of costa, becoming smaller posteriorly, last dot subapical ; an 
