Microlepidoftem (Pierophorina and Tineina) collected hij the British Ornithologists' 

 Union and Wollaston Expeditions in the Snoiv Mountains, Southern Dutch New 

 Guinea. By John Hartley Durrant, F.E.S. 



(Pul)Iishcd liy penuission uf the Tru.stees of the British Museum.) 



PTEROPHORINA 



PTEROPHORIDAE 



Steganodactyla Wlsm. 



Steganodactyla connexiva Wlsm. 



Steganodactyla connexiva Wlsm., Ent. Mo. Maff. 27, 242-3 (1891): Nov. Lep. 1. 79-80, Pf. 12--t (1892). 

 Ochjrotiea connexiva Meyr., Gn. Ins. Wijfsm. 100, 20, Pf. 17 (1910). 



Hab. — Base Camp, Nov.— Dec. 1912. 



1 $. 



Alucita L. 



(Type : Phalacna Alucita penladactijla L.) 



Alucita lacteipennis Wkr. 



Aciptilus lacteipennis Wkr., Gat. Lep. B.M. 30, 949, sp. 22 (1864). Aciptilus similalis W^kr., Cat. Lep. 

 B.M. 30, 949, sp. 24 (1864). Aciptilia malacensis Z., Hor. Soc. Ent. Boss. 13, 485-6 (1877). 



Hab.— Base Camp, Nov. 1912— Jan. 1913. 



2 o'9 (the ? badly broken). 



TINEINA 



GELECHIADAE 



GONAEPA Wkr. 



Gonaepa heliarcha Meyr. 



Crocanthes heliarcha Meyr., Tr. Ent. Soc. Land.. 1886, 278, sp. 150 (1886). Gonaepa heliarcha Meyr., 

 Tr. Ent. Soc. Land., 1910", 442 (1910). 



Hab.— Base Camp, Nov.— Dec. 1912. 



2 33. 



Gonaepa actinis, sp. n. (Wlsm.) * 

 Antennae biciliate 2|- ; rather less than the length of the forewings ; pale orange- 

 yellow, shaded with black above, the ciliations smoky. Palpi slender, smooth, recurved ; 



* Described by Lord Walsingliam, 



