MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
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Antenna dark fuscous-bronze, ringed with pale fuscous, scape whitish 
below. Palpus pale ockreous-golden, slightly suffused with fuscous 
laterally. Thorax light purplish-fuscous-bronze. Abdomen pale fuscous. 
Legs pale golden-bronze, anterior and median tibia and all tarsi above 
blackish-fuscous, white ringed. Fore wing elongate-subovate, dilated, 
broadest at 3 / 4 , costa moderately curved throughout, apex pointed, 
termen rounded, oblique. Deep bronze-golden ; more than the median 
third of wing from beyond base to margin suffused with deep reddish- 
golden-brown, becoming purple beyond cell, a deep brown streak from 
this suffusion along posterior third of fold to edge of wing; a greyish-lilac 
dorsal streak from base of wing to the preceding marking, tolerably 
limited above by vein lb, with a few scattered pale blue scales; irroration 
of shining wliitish-blue scales from about middle to apex, anteriorly 
extending to a subquadrate dot of the same colour on upper edge of cell, 
narrowed at 3 / 4 of wing, with a triangular projection below beyond cell, 
reaching middle of wing, attenuated beyond middle; irroration of same 
colour forming a series of irregular spots and streaks along fold throughout, 
and an irregular marginal fascia from tornus to just below apex; a 
whitish-blue dot on each angle of cell, lower one largest. Cilia pale ochreous- 
fuscous mixed with greyish-fuscous, basal half fuscous with olive tinge, 
a faint olive-fuscous subapical line. Hind wing fuscous-whitish, pale, with 
golden gloss, cilia ochreous-white with grey basal third. 
Ovipositor short, cylindrical. Signum, a moderate acute horn with 
asymmetrical broad base. (Slide no. 1030 D, allotype.) 
Moss Forest Camp, five km northeast of Lake Habbema, 2800 m, 
October 16, 1938 (holotype, male), October 13, 1938 (allotype, female). 
Two specimens. Intermediate between the preceding and A. jjoliochlamys 
spec. nov. Also allied to A. thyriochalca Meyrick. 
Amphithera eulampra spec. nov. (fig. 784) 
ev = true, Aa/moor = shining 
22 mm. Head dark fuscous, face shining ochreous-white, eye separated 
in two parts by a broad pecten of scales. Antenna dark fuscous. Palpus 
dark fuscous, terminal segment fuscous-ochreous. Thorax (partially 
denuded) deep brownish-fuscous, apex with golden shine. Abdomen deep 
fuscous-brassy, in certain lights also with purple gloss, apex white. Legs 
dark fuscous, median leg blackish above, tibia and all tarsal segments 
with pale golden-ochreous rings (posterior legs missing). Fore wing 
elongate-subovate, costa curved anteriorly, straight in middle, apex 
pointed, termen rounded, oblique. Shining deep purplish -brassy-ied, a 
deep violet-purple suffusion along anterior 3 / 4 of costa, attenuated posteri 
orly; a lilac-grey streak along 5 / 6 of dorsum from slightly beyond base, 
its upper edge well-defined, reaching to fold by a triangular projection 
at 1 / 3 , its posterior fourth exceeding fold, with ill-defined edge, a shining 
