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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
connected above by brown projection with trapezoid patch, below with 
upper arm of Y-shaped mark and with lower extremity of second transverse 
fascia; some yellowish suffusion along streaks between basal patch and 
fascia; upper edge of cell posteriorly with a narrow reddish streak from 
which originate two broad ochreous interneural streaks; second of these 
narrowed, reaching preapical costal patch ; five rather broad, deep ochreous, 
slightly suffused reddish interneural streaks between veins 8 — 3, not 
reaching termen, upper streak from subterminal fascia, two following 
from end of cell, two lower streaks from well beyond this; apices and 
bases of these streaks more or less irrorated with dark brown, their 
irrorated bases together forming oblique transverse above mentioned band ; 
an orange-ochreous streak along dorsum from base to 3 / 5 . Cilia orange, basal 
third deep fulvous. Hind wing with 4 and 5 separate; ochreous-orange, 
glossy, thinly scaled towards base, cilia concolorous. 
Uncus moderate. Valva with a verrucose field at base of disc. Vinculum 
short, pointed. “Anellus lobes” strong, acutely pointed, curved. Aedoeagus 
moderate. (Slide no. 927 D, holotype.) 
$ 46 mm. Head with vertex suffused with ferruginous-red. Tegula 
ferruginous-red. Fore wing with ferruginous-brown markings broader and 
more extended than in the male, interneural streaks beyond cell thicker 
and entirely suffused with fulvous and ferruginous-brown; posterior 2 / 3 of 
cilia deeper orange. Hind wing tinged salmon colour; cilia deeper orange. 
Ostium, a small cup. Limen, a transverse ridge. Ductus bursae moderate. 
Cestum developed, a simple moderate band above and a spinose, perforated, 
irregular body below. Signa, four broadly ovate plates. (Slide no. 928 D, 
allotype.) 
Mist Camp, 1800 m, December 23, 1938 (holotype, male). December 27, 
1938 — January 18, 1939. January 11, 1939 (allotype, female). Top Camp, 
2100 m, January, 1939. Seven males, one female. 
Lactura erythrodendron spec. nov. (fig. 775) 
eqv&qoq = red, ddvSgov = tree 
o 24 mm. Head yellow, vertex orange-crimson with a pair of large 
yellow lateral spots, orbits yellow. Palpus crimson, lower edge of basal 
and median segments yellow. Thorax orange-crimson with a pair of sub- 
lateral, two pairs of lateral and one apical yellow spots, patagium yellow 
with apex and a small dot on anterior edge orange-crimson. Abdomen 
woolly, deep orange, anal tuft paler, venter yellow. Legs yellow, femora 
above orange-crimson, anterior tibia and tarsus with a narrow longitudinal 
submedian crimson streak dilated on apex of tibia so as to form a transverse 
band, apical half of tarsus crimson; median tibia with a moderate apical, 
tarsus with a broad subapical orange-crimson band ; posterior leg more or 
less suffused with orange above. Fore wing with veins 7 and 8 stalked; 
elongate-subovate, costa moderately curved towards extremities, less so in 
