MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
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2 free from base, 3 absent, 4 absent, cell narrow, short (under 1 / 3 ), acute, 
5 connate with 7 from angle, 6 our of 7 at middle, 7 to costa. 
Genotype Guttigera rhythmica spec, nov., male. 
An interesting new form correlated with Leucantiza Clemens and 
Marmara Clemens, nearest to the latter, differing from both by the 
thickened palpi and by the neuration of the fore wing. 
Key to the species of Guttigera 
1. Blackish-purple with white markings rhythmica spec. nov. 
Whitish, irrorated with fuscous albicaput spec. nov. 
Guttigera rhythmica spec. nov. (figs. 792, 795) 
QV&fuxdg = rhythmic 
10 mm. Head shining pale silvery -fuscous. Antenna pale fuscous- 
grey, becoming purplish beyond base, bases of segments with narrow 
indistinct pale rings, scape greyish with a black base. Palpus whitish, 
median segment with a blackish apical, median with a subapical ring. 
Thorax fuscous with bronze gloss, apical half of tegula whitish. Abdomen 
blackish with pale bands. Legs white, anterior leg pale fuscous; all tibiae 
and outer spurs blackish, anterior and median tarsi white, narrowly black- 
ringed, posterior tarsus dark leaden-grey. Fore wing lanceolate, pointed, 
broadest in middle. Deep fuscous-purple, little glossy, markings snow- 
white. Five tolerably equidistant transverse marks on costa from 1 / 5 to 
apex: first moderate, transverse, slightly inwards-oblique; second and 
third large, subquadrate, slightly outw T ards-oblique, reaching to cell; 
fourth minute, transverse, vertical, continued across cilia, fifth transverse, 
just before apex, rather irregular, reaching to termen, broadly continued 
across costal cilia; a row of somewhat irregular subquadrate dots along 
dorsum from base to tornus; a few scattered white scales in disc and on 
terminal edge; anterior half of disc slightly irrorated with pale fuscous. 
Cilia pale bronze-fuscous, along costa suffused with dark fuscous-purple, 
barred with white opposite two ultimate costal marks, in apex with a 
narrow basal and a subapical blackish-purple line, subapical line followed 
by an apical snow r -white fine; on termen with three ill-defined dark 
purplish fines diverging anteriorly, and a few scattered white scales. Hind 
wing glossy pale fuscous, faintly tinged purplish posteriorly, cilia pale 
bronze-fuscous. 
Tegumen pointed, bristly along ventral edge, top sh'ghtly indent. 
Valva small, short, shaped as a three-ribbed pyramid, below its pointed 
top a group of brush-like bristles, bent on a slender stalk which is curved 
at base in the direction of the top of valva. Vinculum strong, semispheroid. 
Aedoeagus sclerotized, rather long, slightly bent and narrowed apically. 
(Slide no. 1086 D, type.) 
Moss Forest Camp, five km northeast of Lake Habbema, 2800 m, 
October 19, 1938. One specimen. 
