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2. Fore wing with a sinuate, trumpet-shaped fascia at a / 4 , a transverse bar in 
tornus, and a transverse preapical strigula cornucopias Diakonoff 
Fore wing without a fascia at 3 / 4 , with a preapical furcate mark only . . . 
furcigera Meyrick 
3 Costa with a dark triangular spot at 2 / s preceded by some two, followed by 
one dots acrographa spec. nov. 
Costa with a dark basal, a similar median and a subapical spots 
chrysonetha spec. nov. 
Dicellitis acrographa spec. nov. (fig. 290) 
atcQov = margin, ygaipco = to draw 
$ 14 mm. Head light ochreous, vertex pale ochreous, collar brownish 
anteriorly, pale ochreous posteriorly. Palpus pale ochreous, median 
segment with a median fuscous patch laterally, terminal segment fuscous 
below except apex. Thorax brownish (damaged). Abdomen brownish- 
ochreous, rather dark greyish-brown above, anal tuft pale ochreous. Legs 
light ochreous, infuscated above, tibia and tarsus ringed with dark 
fuscous. Fore wing broad, little dilated, costa curved anteriorly, sinuate 
posteriorly, apex subacute, curved, projecting, termen sinuate. Pale 
ochreous, transversely strigulated with chestnut-brown and with fulvous 
short strigulae. Base of wing moderately suffused with fuscous; base of 
costa suffused with fuscous and transversely marked with dark brown ; 
central fascia indicated by a small obliquely triangular patch at 2 / 5 , 
ochreous-fuscous edged with dark brown, and by a taint lilac suffusion 
along posterior half of dorsum, reaching to costal patch, ill-rlefined above, 
along dorsum transversely strigulated with undulate dark brown and 
ferruginous lines; costal patch moderate, triangular, at 2 / 3 , dark brown, 
centre lilac-grey; this patch continued by a tawny-oebreous suffused 
transverse streak to middle of disc, and slightly suffused with tawny- 
ochreous along posterior edge; patch followed on costa by a small sub- 
triangular dark brown dot; posterior third of wing more suffused with 
bright tawny-ochreous, mixed with lilac, transversely strigulated by 
vertical series of short chestnut -brown and dark brown streaks. Cilia pale 
tawny-ochreous, mixed with a few dark brown scales opposite middle of 
termen (imperfect). Hind wing light fulvous, faintly dotted with brown ; 
cilia pale fulvous, a darker fulvous antemedian line. 
Ostium and limen membraneous. Colliculum very strong, broad, 
cylindrical, lower edge excavate ventrally, prolonged into an irregularly 
plicate dentate plate, which is perhaps signum. Ductus bursae absent, 
bursa copulatrix elongate, beginning immediately below colliculum (Slide 
No. 496 D). 
Araucaria Camp, 800 m, March 17, 1939. One specimen. Judging by 
the shape of wing allied to D. cornucopiae Diakonoff. 
Dicellitis chrysonetha spec. nov. (fig. 289) 
XQvaog = gold, vrj&a) = to spin 
$ 9.5 mm. Head rather roughly scaled, ochreous-grey, 
vertex dark 
