MICROLEPIDOPTERA OP NEW GUINEA 
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processes. Valva ovate, gradually narrowed towards base, sacculus large, 
triangular. Saccus moderate. (Slide no. 1011 D, holotype.) 
Scree Valley Camp, 3800 m, September 15, 1938 (holotype). Lake 
Habbema, 3250—3300 m, June 30— August 27, 1938. Moss Forest Camp, 
2800 m, October 12, 1938. Top Camp, 2100 m, January 27, 1939. Seven 
specimens. 
^ 18 — 21 mm. Head light fulvous-brownish, face pale yellowish-oclireous. 
Antenna bronze, whitish-ringed towards base. Palpus light yellowish- 
oclireous. Thorax deep purple. Abdomen whitish-fuscous. Legs as in male. 
Fore wing elongate, hardly dilated, costa moderately curved anteriorly, 
apex pointed, termen gently rounded, oblique. Shining light purplish- 
bronze, moderately suffused with deeper purple, towards base of costa 
and in middle of disc, towards costa and apex mixed with white scales. 
A broad pale greenish-yellow dorsal streak from base to tornus, at base 
and along posterior half reaching fold, upper edge rather irregular, variably 
shaped, becoming less defined posteriorly, mostly with a large triangular 
emargination from beyond base to before middle, followed by a small one, 
both filled with deep purple suffusion ; posterior half of costa often paler 
bronze, not purplish-tinged ; a suffused deep purple apical dot; faint 
yellowish-white suffusion forming an erect small spot in middle of cell 
above middle of wing and a smaller round dot on each angle of cell. Cilia 
pale fuscous, a deeper fuscous subbasal shade along termen, a suffused 
blotch opposite apical dot. Hind wing glossy fuscous-whitish, cilia con- 
colorous. 
Ovipositor broad, top thickened, lobes bristled along inner edge. Signum, 
a short horn with broad base on a round basal plate. (Slide no. 1016 D, 
allotype.) 
Lake Habbema, 3250 — 3300 m, August 15, 1938 (allotype), August 
5 — end August, 1938. Iebele Camp, 2250 m, December 2, 1938. Six 
specimens. Variable species; the whitish irroration is sometimes more 
extended towards the apex, or the entire ground-colour is deeper bronze ; 
in one specimen the dorsal streak is much obscured by the ground colour. 
Amphithera euniphadopa spec. nov. (fig. 780) 
ev = true, virpa; - snow, = eye 
$ 20 mm. Head tawny-ochreous mixed with whitish, face pale golden- 
ochreous, posterior edge of eye with a pecten of whitish scales. Antenna 
light fuscous-bronze, pale ringed. Palpus fuscous, terminal segment light 
ochreous, with a shallow lateral groove. Thorax (denuded) light ochreous ( , 
tegula light ochreous. Abdomen dark fuscous, tip pale ochreous. Legs pale 
ochreous, anterior tibia fulvous-bronze, median tibia blackish-fuscous 
ringed with golden-yellowish, posterior tibia with long greyish hairs above 
and beneath, all tarsi dark purplish-fuscous, ringed with pale ochreous- 
golden. Fore wing elongate-subovate, hardly dilated, costa curved towards 
