GELECHIADiE. 
75 
narrowed to a point below middle; cilia grey with darker subbasal 
shade, round tornal and dorsal areas orange. 
British New Guinea, Iiydrographer Mts., 2500 feet, March 
( Eiclihorn ) ; 1 ex. (Coll. Paravicini). Allied to heliograjpta. 
Crocanthes thermocharis, n. sp. 
S . 15 mm. Head shining bronze, face whitish-ochreous. 
Palpi second joint very long, smooth-scaled, terminal joint short, 
loosely scaled anteriorly, blunt-pointed ; whitish-ochreous, terminal 
joint and upper part of second suffused dark grey anteriorly. 
Antennae whitish, basal third greyish above. Thorax dark grey. 
Abdomen orange, two basal spots on 2, and praeapical segment 
blackish. Forewings elongate, somewhat dilated, costa slightly 
arched, apex obtuse, termen straight, rather oblique; 2 and 4 
stalked, 5 connate, 9 and 10 out of 8 ; orange ; markings blackish ; 
a basal patch extending on costa to and on dorsum to middle, 
including a suffused orange dorsal spot and three or four small 
suffused spots in upper part ; a transverse-oval discal spot con¬ 
nected by a costal bar with a broad terminal band, broadest above 
and extending over ^ of costa : cilia dark grey. Hindwings orange ; 
markings blackish; a small basal patch; a transverse discal spot 
on each end of cell; an irregular macular streak from disc beyond 
middle to termen below middle, where it meets a rather na.rrow 
attenuated terminal fascia from apex ; cilia dark grey, round tornal 
and dorsal areas orange. 
British New Guinea, Kumusi B. {Meek); 1 ex. (Coll. Para¬ 
vicini). Allied to preceding. 
Crocanthes phaeograpta, n. sp. 
B. 12 mm. Head, thorax dark fuscous. Palpi dark grey, 
internally whitish. Fore wings elongate, narrow at base, dilated, 
costa posteriorly arched, apex obtuse, termen slightly rounded, 
oblique ; 2 and 4 short-stalked, 9 and 10 out of 8 ; dark fuscous ; 
a blackish transverse spot on end of cell, preceded by a roundish 
grey spot and followed by a grey bar; a nearly straight pale grey 
line from a small white spot on costa at | to tornus ; a suffused 
pale grey terminal fascia: cilia grey, on costa a blackish basal 
shade, round apex tips whitish. Hindwings blackish ; some grey 
suffusion in basal of disc, and on a bar from this to tornus ; a 
grey transverse line at f strongly excurved on median third; 
edge grey round apex and upper part of termen ; cilia grey, 
a blackish basal shade, tips whitish. 
British New Guinea, Kumusi B. (Meek) ; 1 ex. (Coll. Para¬ 
vicini). Has the aspect of a small Pyraustid. 
Crocanthes thalamectis Meyr. 
A 2 (17 mm.) from the original locality (Coll. Paravicini) has 
the palpi normal for the genus, but otherwise does not particularly 
differ from the B . 
