MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
79 
Lake Habbema, 3250—3300 m, August 13, 1938 (holotype, male), 
August 13 — 20, 1938. Scree Valley Camp, 3800 m, September 22, 1938. 
Four specimens. 
Genitalia of Amphitheridae. Fig. 786: Amphithera crimnodes spec. nov. female. 
Fig. 787 : Chalcoteuches chlorantha spec, nov., male. Fig. 788 : Amphithera poliochlamys 
spec, nov., male. Fig. 789: Chalcoteuches chlorantha spec, nov., female. Fig. 790: 
Amphithera personata spec, nov., female. Fig. 791: idem, signum. 
$ 19 — 20 mm. Head sordid ochreous-brownisk, vertex brown. Antenna 
dark bronze, sharply ringed with white along basal half. Palpus bronze- 
fuscous, apical segment with paler basal, median and apical rings. Thorax 
deep purple-brown. Abdomen pale greyish-ochreous. Legs pale fuscous, 
anterior and median tibia dark fuscous-bronze with a white postmedian 
and an apical spots, tarsi fuscous-bronze, white-ringed. Fore wing elongate, 
hardly dilated, costa curved at base, apex obtusely pointed, termen 
moderately rounded, oblique. Shining fuscous-purple-brassy, becoming 
somewhat deeper purple towards base, irregularly strewn with large 
bluish-white scales, more so beyond cell, especially along posterior third 
of costa and along termen; bluish-white scales form more or less distinct 
irregular dots: in middle of cell, below 1 / s of fold, on upper and lower angle 
of cell and on costa just before apex; irregular deep purple suffused spots : 
