MICROLEPIDGPTERA OE NEW GUINEA 
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Sigi Camp, 1500 m, February 10 — 18, 1939. Mist Camp, 1800 m, 
February 10, 1939. Top Camp, 2100 m, December 18, 1938. Seven females, 
somewhat larger than Meyrick’s specimens: 38 — 40 mm instead of 
28 — 34 mm; the markings are identical up to the slightest details, but the 
ground colour is somewhat brighter yellow. 
Lactura conflagrans (Walker, 1864) (fig. 776) 
Sarbena conflagrans Walker, 1864, Catal. Lep. Het. B.M., vol. 31, pp. 256 257. 
Buxeta conflagrans. Walker, ibidem, vol. 35, p. 1982, 1866. Hampson, Catal. Lep. 
Phal. B.M., vol. 2, p. 567, 1900. Durrant, Catal. Lep. Het. Mus. Oxon., vol. 2, p. 561, 
No. 3665, 1900. 
Lactura conflagrans, Meyrick, Lepid. Catal., part 19, p. 32, 1914. Dtjrrant, Brit. 
Omit. Un. & Wollast. Exp., Lep., p. 160, 1915. 
Distribution: “New' Guinea”. Netherlands New Guinea, Utakwa River, 
sea-level. 
$ 38 mm. Head orange, middle of vertex slightly mixed with pale 
yellow, face except middle and sides of vertex pale yellow, collar suffused 
with crimson. Antenna crimson-orange. Palpus orange-crimson, terminal 
segment and apex of median infuscated. Thorax orange-red, apical third 
ferruginous, spots pale yellow : a large transversely ovate spot on patagium, 
a rounded one on tegula, tuft on apex of the latter mixed with pale yellow 
laterally, two pairs of approximated lateral spots and a subquadrate apical 
spot. Abdomen orange-crimson, deep orange towards base. Anterior and 
median legs orange, femora pale yellow below, tibiae with an elongate 
supralateral pale yellow' spot on middle and a brown suffused spot towards 
apex, basal segments of tarsi pale yellow laterally; posterior leg orange 
throughout, slightly suffused with light yellow. Fore wing with veins 7 
and 8 closely approximated : elongate-subovate, little dilated, costa little 
curved at base and apex, gently prominent beyond middle, apex obtuse, 
termen rounded, oblique. Light yellow, markings formed by bright orange- 
red network and two transverse chcstnut-brown fasciae. Edge of costa 
orange; a moderate basal patch orange-red, towards costa suffused with 
chestnut-brown, including a round dot of ground colour below base of 
costa and a yellow' tuft in middle of base of wing; this patch is extended 
along basal fifth of costa, its edge strongly concave, on dorsum continued 
as an attenuated orange streak to tornus; a moderately broad chestnut 
transverse fascia from slightly beyond middle of costa occupying less 
than its median fifth, to ’/ 4 of dorsum, but just not reaching margin, with 
undulate edges, upper third dilated, with a small longitudinal pale yellow 
mark below costa beyond middle and some groups of yellow scales below 
this; another chestnut-brow T n transverse fascia from costa before apex 
occupying space between terminations of veins 9 and 8, to "/ 3 of dorsum, 
in middle dilated and broader than the preceding fascia, its anterior edge 
less undulated, tolerably straight, its posterior edge concave from below 
