MICROLEPIDOPTERA OE NEW GUINEA 
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Ovipositor erect, narrowed above and beneath. Signnm, a small acute 
horn. (Slide no. 1015 D, holotype.) 
Lake Habbema, 3250—3300 m, August 20, 1938 (holotype), end July— 
end August, 1938. Moss Forest Camp, five km northeast of Lake Habbema, 
2800 m, October 14, 1938. Seven specimens. Very distinct by the yellowish- 
golden colouring. Variable: sometimes more densely suffused with yel- 
lowish-fuscous, the dark discal mark connected with the apex, the whitish 
colouring in the disc forming a streak along the closing vein, a dot beyond 
this and some irregular irroration in the cell and above the dorsum to 
before the base. 
Amphithera nivilita spec. nov. (fig. 782) 
£ 15 mm. Head whitish, vertex slightly mixed with fuscous. Antenna 
bronze-golden, ringed with whitish, scape white below. Palpus fuscous- 
bronze, terminal segment somewhat under x / 2 , pale golden. Thorax rather 
light golden-fuscous, with faint purplish gloss. Abdomen fuscous-whitish. 
Legs whitish banded with deep fuscous-bronze. Fore wing elongate-ovate, 
rather narrow, costa moderately curved towards extremities, straight in 
middle, apex pointed, termen long, rounded, very oblique. White, faintly 
tinged citric-yellow, in certain lights spots of pale yellowish-green 
irridescence, especially along fold, on end of cell and before apex ; edge of 
costa and an ill-defined broad submedian streak from base of costa to 
before middle of disc pale fuscous with a purplish gloss; markings formed 
by coarse fuscous-purple irroration arranged as follows : a rather narrow 
streak along basal fourth of dorsum curved upwards and extended to a 
blotch on posterior half of cell which is comiected with a streak of sparse 
coarse irroration below posterior s / 4 of costa, and with a patch of denser 
irroration, brighter shining with purple which occupies lower half of wing 
beyond cell and reaches to apex; several irregular white spots, i.e. on 
middle of upper edge of cell, on lower angle of cell, a short longitudinal 
streak beyond upper angle of cell and two elongate marginal spots: one 
above, and one below apex. Cilia whitish-ochreous, opposite apex and 
opposite middle of termen with a fuscous bar, between these yellowish - 
whitish, basal third from apex to tornus fuscous. Hind wing glossy yel- 
lowish-white with faint pinkish tinge, cilia yellowish-white. 
Ovipositor conical. Signum very small: a short horn with a broad base. 
(Slide no. 1032 U, type.) 
Sigi Camp, 1500 m, March 20, 1939. One specimen. Allied to the 
preceding. 
Amphithera aurea spec. nov. (fig. 783) 
$ 19 mm. Head sordid whitish-fuscous, frons fuscous, face golden; no 
pecten of scales behind the eye. Antenna whitish, broadly ringed with 
bronze, scape whitish. Palpus golden-whitish, median segment above, 
