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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
two in disc towards base of cell in longitudinal series and two larger and 
more distinct ones: below V 4 and below middle of fold, respectively. Cilia 
pale fuscous-greyish, glossy, with an irregular purplish-brassy subbasal 
fascia from apex to tornus. Hind wing pale whitish-grey, posterior half 
tinged pale greyish-fuscous. Cilia concolorous, becoming almost white 
towards tornus and along dorsum. 
Ovipositor subconical, obtusely pointed. Signum small: a shallow sub- 
triangular bag. (Slide no. 1014 D, allotype.) 
Scree Valley Camp, 3800 m, September 22, 1938 (allotype, female). 
Letterbox Camp, 3600 m, September 10, 1938. Lake Habbema, 3250— 
3300 m, en July — end August, 1938. Six specimens. 
Amphithera crimnodes spec. nov. (fig. 786) 
xgifivwSrjg = grainy 
Q 19 20 mm. Head sordid pale ochreous, slightly mixed with tawny 
a small pecten of whitish scales along posterior edge of eye. Antenna pale 
golden-ochreous, ringed with brownish. Palpus long, with terminal segment 
under x / 2 ; fight golden-ochreous slightly suffused -with brownish. Thorax 
light tawny-ochreous with purplish-bronze gloss, or light golden-purplish- 
fuscous. Abdomen pale ochreous-greyish. Legs pale ochreous, anterior 
leg deeper ochreous, anterior and median tibiae with two dark fuscous 
bands, all tarsi with a broad dark fuscous median band on each segment. 
Fore wing elongate, rather narrow, costa curved towards base, apex 
pointed, termen moderately rounded, oblique. Pale golden-yellow, along 
margins suffused with deeper tawny-yellowish, in middle of disc posteriorly 
suffused with whitish, sparsely scattered with large tawny-fuscous scales, 
markings yellowish-fuscous-tawny with purple gloss. Variable; markings 
in type as follows. Base of costal edge fuscous; base of wing, anterior half 
of costa and base of dorsum suffused with yellowish -tawny ;. irregular 
tawny-fuscous irroration below anterior half of costa from beyond base; 
fuscous-tawny markings as follows: a suffused roundish spot in middle of 
disc beyond base, a large prostrate-Z-shaped patch across median half of 
disc before middle, its anterior acute extremity not reaching V 4 of dorsum, 
median part thickened, posterior extremity ill-defined, dissolved in coarse 
irroration extending below posterior half of costa to before apex and 
occupying upper half of wing, forming an ill-defined elongate- V-shaped 
mark below; an irregular spot on end of fold; termen and apex suffused 
with tawny-fuscous, a spot and an irregular marginal line along termen 
yellowish-white; an undulate longitudinal median streak across posterior 
a/ 3 of wing, dilated in apex: shining light, purple, visible only in certain 
fights. Cilia pale ochreous-tawny with purplish gloss, an interrupted 
fuscous antemedian fine. Hind wing greyish-yellow-white, tinged pale 
fuscous towards margins, cilia whitish-yellow', base somewhat brighter. 
