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MICROLEPID OPTERA OP NEW GUINEA 
costa gradually curved, apex broadly rounded, termen oblique. White, 
faintly suffused with very pale ochreous on base and along dorsum ; costa 
and dorsum narrowly and suffusedly edged with deep pink; a moderate, 
suffused, deep pink longitudinal streak between vein 12 and cell from 
beyond base to V 4 of wing ; other markings strongly suffused, pale ochreous- 
pink, becoming somewhat brighter in disc and towards termen: three 
elongate-subquadrate ill-defined patches, occupying about basal sixth, 
third and fifth sixth of costa, respectively, hardly reaching cell; an 
arrowhead-shaped longitudinal somewhat brighter pink patch in middle 
of cell, point basad; a series of four pairs of ill-defined longitudinal spots 
along fold from about 1 / 5 of wing to dorsum, each pair formed by a spot 
above and one opposite this beneath fold ; upper one of third pair largest, 
extended obliquely over lower angle of cell and merging in a large rounded 
blotch beyond cell, which reaches above to vein 10 and is connected with 
third costal patch; a subterminal row of elongate brighter pink spots 
between veins, from below vein 8 to below vein 2. Cilia whitish-pink, basal 
half light pink. Hind wing with 4 and 5 separate; fight salmon, cilia 
somewhat paler. 
Uncus slender, long. Valva simple. Vinculum large, elongate, with 
broad base. Anellus lobes rounded, weak, short-haired. Aedoeagus large. 
Cornuti, two patches of fine dentations. (Slide no. 926 D, type.) 
Araucaria Camp, 800 m, March 11, 1939. One specimen. Nearest to 
L. rhodographa Meyrick. 
Lactura ophioglossa Meyrick, 1924 
Lactura ophioglossa Meybick, 1924, Exot. Microl., vol. 3, p. 122. 
Distribution: Netherlands New Guinea, Weyland Mountains, 6000 feet. 
Rattan Camp, 1200 m, February 11, 1939. One specimen, with colouring 
and markings closely agreeing with the description except for the apical 
dark furcate projection being broader than in the type; furthermore, our 
specimen is considerably smaller: 24 mm as against 33 — 35 mm of 
Meyrick’s original material. Perhaps this is a dwarfish “hunger” specimen. 
Lactura acrantha spec. nov. (fig. 772) 
axgov = marge, av&og = flower 
23 mm. Head bright orange-crimson, face yellow suffused with 
orange-red, orbits orange-red. Antennae pale reddish-orange. (Palpi 
missing.) Thorax (damaged) deep ferruginous-crimson, collar pale yellow 
with bright orange-red base. Abdomen crimson, towards base paler: 
reddish-orange. Legs light orange-crimson. Fore wing with veins 7 and 8 
stalked; ovate, dilated, broadest at 3 / 5 , costa with base arched, in middle 
little curved, slightly bent and prominent at 3 / 5 , apex rounded, termen 
