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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
and terminal below : fuscous ; terminal segment 1 . Thorax purplish-golden- 
fuscous. Abdomen whitish-grey. Legs whitish-fuscous, anterior and median 
tibia dark fuscous above with narrow whitish basal, median and apical 
rings, tarsi bronze-fuscous, articulations with white rings. Fore wing ovate- 
lanceolate, slightly dilated, broadest at :i / 4 , costa slightly curved at base, 
hardly prominent at 3 / 4 , gently bent towards apex, apex pointed, termen 
hardly rounded, oblique. Pale golden, towards dorsum with a faint purple 
gloss, scattered with ferruginous-brassy and white scales. Anterior half 
of costa and fold suffused with fuscous-brassy; an in vert- V-shaped mark 
of rather dark bronze-fuscous irroration on '/ 3 of dorsum, somewhat 
inwardly oblique, reaching 2 / 3 across wing, with top in cell; a subtriangular 
dark bronze-fuscous spot on dorsum before end of fold; white speckling 
more distinct along posterior 2 / 3 of costa, before apex and along termen; 
it forms three more or less distinct rounded discal dots : on upper edge of 
cell, beyond l / 3 of wing, and on upper and lower angles of cell, respectively. 
Cilia pale fuscous with a bronze gloss, basal half somewhat darker, a brassy 
interrupted antemedian fascia. Hind wing greyish-white, tinged pale 
fuscous towards apex, cilia concolorous. 
Ovipositor short, subconical. Signum absent. (Slide no. 1033 D, type.) 
Scree Valley Camp, 3800 m, September 24, 1938. One specimen. 
Chalcoteuches Turner, 1927 
Chalcoteuches Turner, 1927, Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasman., 1926, pp. 169-160. 
In this genus both sexes have normal eyes. Mr. Jan B. Common kindly 
sent us a male and a female specimen of the genotype, Ch. phlogera 
Turner, from Tasmania, for comparison. In this species the vein 4 of 
the fore wing is almost obliterate in the male, but normal in the female. 
Chalcoteuches chlorantha spec. nov. (figs. 787, 789) 
y).o>o<k = green, av&og = gem 
g 12 mm, $ 17.5 mm. Head in male whitish-fuscous-grey, face white, 
head in female sordid pale oehreous, face whitish-ochreous. Antenna 
whitish, ringed with bronze-fuscous. Palpus in male strongly recurved, 
fuscous-grey, in female longer, less recurved, in both sexes a suffused white 
band below apex and a narrow whitish suffusion at base of terminal 
segment. Thorax glossy fuscous, a pale greyish round spot on middle 
of anterior edge, tegula silvery-white with dark fuscous basal half, a 
greyish-white subapical transverse line. Abdomen greyish-fuscous with 
silvery gloss, anal tuft pale oehreous. Legs whitish-fuscous, anterior leg 
in male suffused with dark fuscous on inner side, silvery-whitish on outer 
side, anterior leg in female and median legs in both sexes deep fuscous- 
