XYLORYCTIDiE. 
433 
probably due to recent emergence from pupa. The larva is probably 
a case-bearer like Melasma and its allies, and the very elongate 
abdomen of d probably indicates (as in the Psychidce) that the 2 
is apterous and is impregnated within the case. 
XYLORYCTIDiE. 
Cryptophasa malevolens, n. sp. 
d . 41-43 mm. Head, palpi fuscous. Antennae subdentate, 
ciliations 1. Thorax violet-fuscous, a blackish band behind collar, 
expanded between tegulae. Abdomen dark fuscous, segment 3 dull 
orange-reddish dorsally. Anterior tarsi expanded with rough scales 
to apex. Forewings elongate, moderate, rather dilated, termen 
rounded, oblique; violet-fuscous, slightly sprinkled darker; a 
suffused dark fuscous dorsal streak from about ^ to tornus; a black 
transverse mark on end of cell: cilia fuscous. Hindwings markedly 
triangular; tornal area rather prominent; dark fuscous; cilia 
fuscous. 
Dutch New Guinea, Upper Setekwa K., Snow Mts., 2-3000 
feet, July, September (Meek) ; 2 ex. 
Cryptophasa semnocrana, n. sp. 
<5 . 54 mm. Head and collar dark brown. Palpi brown, a 
darker lateral streak on second joint. Antennal pectinations 2|. 
Thorax white, a very few blackish scale-tips, anterior margin 
between tegulae dark brown edged ochreous-brown. Abdomen 
brownish. Porewings elongate, gradually dilated, termen rounded, 
little oblique; white, some thinly scattered black specks; a 
moderate suffused light brown costal band throughout, sprinkled 
black ; a narrow transverse blackish bar on end of cell; a ter¬ 
minal series of small black dots: cilia white, round apex some 
incomplete bars of blackish irroration. Hindwings grey ; dorsal 
hairs light brownish-ochreous ; cilia light grey, on dorsum light 
ochreous, on tornus ochreous-whitish. 
Hew Britain, Talesea, February (Eichhorn) ; 1 ex. Distin¬ 
guished from aggesta by dark brown head and ochreous dorsal hairs 
of hindwings. 
Ptilogenes ebenocista, n. sp. 
d . 23-24 mm. Head ochreous-whitish. Palpi white, second 
joint brownish-ochreous except tip. Thorax blackish-fuscous, 
shoulders and anterior margin whitish-ochreous. Forewings 
elongate, slightly dilated, costa moderately arched, termen nearly 
vertical, slightly rounded; whitish-ochreous; an oblong dark 
fuscous blotch occupying dorsal half of wing from base to near 
middle, becoming black on upper edge and there margined by a 
suffused brown streak; second discal stigma small or minute, 
blackish, faint blotches of pale fulvous suffusion before and beyond 
this ; small fuscous marks on costa at |, middle, and f, from first 
vol. hi. — November 1928. 2 p 
