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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OB’ NEW GUINEA 
apical half anteriorly. Fore wing with veins 7 and 8 stalked ; elongate-ovate, 
dilated, broadest at ®/ 4 , costa little curved anteriorly, more so along posterior 
fourth, apex rounded, termen rounded, little oblique. Semipellucent : 
covered with pellucent scales with narrow blackish tips, markings formed 
by not pellucent pale yellow spots marked with orange-red and brown, 
veins, except on markings, marked with fulvous-fuscous stripes. A broad 
pale yellow patch along costa from base to s / 4 , reaching below upper edge 
of cell, with a triangular projection on closing vein, reaching to middle of 
that vein, beyond this narrowed, terminated by the upper half of vein 10, 
posterior extremity pointed; a broad dorsal pale yellow patch on base 
connected with the preceding, somewhat beyond middle dilated into a 
trapezoid projection with top terminated by posterior half of lower edge 
of cell, posterior edge oblique, terminated by fold: two rather large pale 
yellow spots: in apex, rounded, and on 2 / 3 of termen, subquadrate, with 
anterior edge indent. Other markings as follows: an elongate-sub- 
rectangular patch occupying more than basal sixth of costa, lower posterior 
angle produced in a suffused longitudinal streak which is connected with 
middle of transverse fascia: orange red, on costa suffused with fulvous- 
fuscous, including a small yellow dot below costa beyond base; an oblique 
moderate transverse fascia from slightly before middle of costa to x / 4 of 
dorsum, fulvous-fuscous, slightly suffusedly edged with orange-red, inter- 
rupted between costal and dorsal yellow patches by pellucent ground 
colour, lower edge of cell with a fulvous-fuscous streak corresponding 
with the width of the transverse fascia; a semicircular moderate orange-red 
streak above dorsum curved upwards, from lower fourth of transverse 
fascia to fold at middle of wing length, closed above by a streak of semi- 
pellucent orange scales along fold ; a semicircular transverse orange-red 
streak from lower edge of cell before angle along basal part of vein 2 to 
s / 4 of dorsum, dilated below, with a dark fuscous streak along dorsal edge; 
a rather narrow orange-red marginal streak along basal third of dorsum, 
abruptly narrowed thence, hardly reaching preceding ; a suffused fuscous 
marginal fascia along the semipellucent area, becoming orange-red along 
apical and terminal yellow spots, narrow along the latter spots. Cilia 
(imperfect) glossy orange-bronze, opposite apical and terminal spots pale 
yellow' except base. Hind wing semipellucent, bluish, thickly covered with 
orange scales becoming deep orange on posterior half, veins orange, deep 
orange along posterior half. Cilia shining golden-orange. 
Araucaria Camp, 800 m, March 10, 1939. Two males. Meyrick, in his 
description of this species, does not mention the obvious fact that the 
purplish markings in fore wing of this species are semipellucent. 
Lactura aurosa spec. nov. (figs. 770, 771) 
q 30 — 33 mm. Head pale yellow, vertex and frons deep golden-ochreous. 
Antenna fulvous. Palpus deep reddish-ferruginous. Thorax deep fer- 
