MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
65 
obtuse lower extremity not reaching 3 / 4 of dorsum, its posterior edge 
hardly outwards-oblique and faintly convex; upper edge of this patch 
tolerably parallel to lower edge of cell, moderately concave in middle; a 
slender longitudinal cuspidate spot in cell not reaching its edges, with 
acute point at 1 / 3 of wing length, somewhat irregularly truncate, posterior 
extremity situated slightly before middle of wing. Cilia bronze-greyish- 
fuscous, glossy. Hind wing rather sparsely scaled, veins 4 and 5 connate, 
brown ; a broad pinkish-white costal streak to about °/ 6 , with edges tinged 
crimson, narrowed towards base and more so towards point, in middle 
somewhat less than J /s of wing breadth; an ill-defined narrow streak of 
orange irroration along fold between veins lb and lc. Cilia as in fore wing. 
Uncus rather stout, top with some three small teeth. Valva with large 
verrucose field at base of disc. Vinculum small. Furca arms strong, truncate. 
Aedoeagus moderately curved. Cornuti absent. (Slide no. 933 1) , type, in 
Hope Museum, Oxford, England.) 
Type specimen, bearing the following series of labels: “3684, Walm. 
1899”. — “Wallace” — “581” — (a blue label inscribed on under side as 
follows:) “A Walker’s type of Lithosia aureocuprea 35. 1885” — “Lithosia 
aureocuprea” (presumably in Walker’s hand) — “Buxeta aureocuprea 
Walker. Named by Durrant”. — “Lithosia aureocuprea Walker Cat. 
Lep. Ins. B.M. XXXV. 1885 (1866), type J ($ Walker)” (presumably 
in Durrant’s hand). 
Lactura plectica spec. nov. (figs. 767, 769) 
ji /.£ xtm 6 q = plaiting 
£ 35 — 39 mm, $ 44 — 45 mm. Head, palpus and antenna deep ferruginous- 
red, side-tufts and face except frons pale whitish-yellow. Thorax coarsely 
retinated with deep ferruginous-red, so as to form three pairs of lateral and 
one apical pale whitish-yellow spots, patagia pale whitish-yellow edged 
with deep ferruginous-red. Abdomen deep crimson-orange. Legs lighter 
crimson-orange or crimson, ventral surface of all femora and basal half 
of tibiae and tarsi above pale yellow. Fore wing with veins 7 and 8 separate ; 
elongate-subovate, costa gently curved throughout, apex rather obtuse, 
termen little rounded, moderately oblique. Pale whitish-yellow. Costal 
edge deep ferruginous-red, along basal fifth forming a moderate costal 
streak dilated anteriorly, connected well beyond base by a blotch with a 
moderate, irregular subcostal streak parallel to costa, from before middle 
of base of wing to before '/ 5 of costa, its lower extremity narrowly con- 
nected with base of wing; a second similar streak beyond preceding and 
parallel with its posterior half, anastomosing with former at its lower 
third and before apex, its upper extremity extended as a narrow deep 
ferruginous-brown streak parallel to vein 1 1 as far as “/ 5 of wing ; a rather 
short irregular deep ferruginous longitudinal streak below' costa some- 
what before middle; in female this streak is extended in a triangular costal 
