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with light brownish-fuscous. Palpus in female pale fulvous, median 
segment suffused with dark grey in middle and towards apex below, 
terminal segment slightly suffused with fuscous above, tip whitish. 
Abdomen pale whitish-ochreous, base white. Legs whitish, anterior and 
median tibia and tarsus slightly infuscated, light-ringed. Fore wing in 
male with a very narrow costal fold to 1 / 3 , which can be entirely unfolded 
(present in left w r ing, absent in right), costa considerably curved anteriorly, 
almost straight posteriorly, apex subacute, rather rounded above; in 
female costa gradually curved anteriorly, straight posteriorly, apex almost 
rectangular, termen scarcely sinuate, little oblique. Whitish, in male 
slightly irrorated with greyish, in female irregularly retinate with light 
brownish, markings rather light brown, edged with blackish-brown, 
darker in male. Basal patch rather large, slightly suffused with greyish 
or brownish, along costa transversely strigulated with darker, edge 
strongly angulate on upper margin of cell, narrow, concave above; edge 
of lower portion of basal patch formed by an inwardly oblique dentiform 
dark brown patch with acute top touching upper fourth of central fascia; 
below’ fold the latter patch obliterate in male, less distinct in female; 
central fascia moderate, from 1 /,, (in male) or from 2 / s (in female) of costa 
tow r ards tornus, upper half well-defined, with edges sinuate in male, in 
female anterior edge convex, posterior concave, with a slight projection 
on upper edge of cell; this central fascia dark brown in male, rather light 
brown edged with blackish brown in female; lower half much dilated and 
suffused in male, obliterate in female, except for a suffused brown vertical 
patch in tornus, densely dotted with blackish brown ; costal patch elongate- 
subovate, from costa before middle to before apex, edge somewhat un- 
dulate: dark grey in male, brown in female, in both dotted with blackish- 
brown; a large triangular patch along termen, suffused with light grey 
in male, in female sharply edged, dark brown, narrowly connected below 
middle with the suffused patch in tornus; in female terminal edge blackish- 
brown, dorsum and fold dotted with blackish-brown ; in male an oblique 
dark brown dot on end of cell. Cilia whitish, apical third suffused with 
greyish or brownish, an antemedian row of dark brown dots. Hind wing 
whitish, tinged with pale brownish, transversely strigulated and slightly 
suffused with fuscous. Cilia whitish, an apical and an interrupted ante- 
median grey fascia. 
Uncus with top slightly indent. Socius small, longer than in balky grapha 
spec. nov. Gnathos with hook moderate. Transtilla knob with a stalk 
narrowed in middle (Slide No. 446 D, holotype). 
Limen and ostium much like those in bathygrapha, limen in middle less 
indent. Cestuin tortuous, terminal fold rather small. Signum long, curved 
(Slide No. 447 1), allotype). 
Top Camp, 2100 m, January 25, 1939 (holotype, male). Moss Forest 
Camp, 2600 — 2800 m, October 9 — November 5, 1938 (allotype, female). 
Moss Forest Camp five km northeast of Lake Habbema, 2800 m, October 
