MICROLEPIDOPTERA OP NEW GUINEA 
69 
Lactura bisecta spec. nov. (fig. 768) 
rj 21 mm . Head pale yellow, vertex and frons except side tufts orange, 
touched with crimson. Palpus and antenna orange-crimson. Thorax deep 
crimson, a pair of lateral subapical spots and an apical spot pale yellow, 
patagium and tegula orange-crimson, with two and one pale yellow spots, 
respectively. Abdomen light ochreous-brownish becoming orange-ochreous 
posteriorly. Legs fight crimson, femur and tibia below, and a streak along 
basal segment except apex above pale yellow. Fore wing with veins 7 
and 8 separate; elongate-ovate, broadest in middle, costa moderately 
curved throughout, apex rather obtuse, termen moderately rounded, 
oblique. Pale yellow. Bright orange-crimson thick longitudinal streaks 
between veins, not reaching margins, a streak along basal fifth of costa, a 
streak along basal half of upper edge of cell and a broad streak along 
dorsum from base to before tornus; costal edge narrowly crimson, a deep 
crimson fine along posterior seventh of fold, continued as a narrow 
marginal fascia of the same colour in tornus and along termen to 4 / 5 of 
costa; two rather narrow inwardly oblique deep lilac-brown transverse 
fasciae: first from beyond x / 4 of dorsum pointing towards costa before 
middle, straight, reaching 3 / 4 across wing, somewhat dilated on dorsum, 
gradually attenuated towards its apex which is acute; second streak from 
below middle of vein 8 to beyond 3 / 4 of dorsum, slightly outwards-concave, 
abruptly and moderately dilated below apex, base continued anteriorly 
along dorsum to before its middle by two parallel deep lilac-brown streaks, 
upper somewhat longer, lower marginal, separated from each other by a 
narrow streak of ground colour; a deep lilac-brown rounded dot halfway 
between transverse fasciae at ] / s of wing breadth. Cilia (imperfect) yellow 
mixed with orange, basal half crimson. Hind wing with veins 4 and 5 
connate; jiale golden-orange, thinly scaled and semipellucent; cilia some- 
what paler, with a faint antemedian fine. 
Uncus long, slender. Valva simple. Vinculum elongate. Anellus lobes 
rather short, with rounded top. Aedoeagus very long. (Slide no. 924 D, 
type.) 
Rattan Camp, 1200 m, February 18, 1939. One specimen. Very near 
to L. rubriflora Meyrick, from Australia, but with bases of transverse 
fasciae not connected along dorsum. 
Lactura anaemoptila spec. nov. (fig. 773) 
avaifios = bloodless, titiAov = wing 
q 27 mm. Head sordid yellowish-white tinged pink, vertex posteriorly 
suffused with pink. Antenna brownish, pale pink above. Palpus fight pink, 
mixed with a few fuscous scales. Thorax sordid yellowish-white, edged 
with pink anteriorly. Abdomen light yellowish-pink. Legs whitish-pink, 
brighter pink above. Fore wing with veins 7 and 8 stalked; elongate-ovate, 
