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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
Mist Camp, 1800 m, January 12, 1939 (holotype, male). Sigi Camp, 
1500 m, February 19, 1939 (allotype, female). Rattan Camp, 1200 m, 
February 12, 1939. Two males, one female. The single female specimen is 
somewhat different by even grey tinge, but with legs coloured exactly 
like these in the males, and structurally quite alike, except labial palpi 
which difference must be a sexual character. 
Toxopeia gen. nov. (fig. 762) 
Head with closely appressed scales. Ocellus posterior. Proboscis rather 
weak. Antenna 3 / 4 , in female pubescent, scape moderate, without pecten. 
Labial palpus, recurved, rather exceeding the base o ( antenna, thickened 
with appressed scales slightly roughish along anterior edge from base to 
Fig. 762: Toxopeia demodes gen. nov., spec, nov., female, head and wing neuration. 
before apex, terminal segment 1, spindle-shaped, pointed. Maxillary 
palpus absent. Thorax not crested. Postetior tibia smooth with a few fine 
appressed hairs towards apex above. Fore wing with vein 1 b furcate, 2 from 
well before angle, 3 and 4 closely approximated at base, from angle, 
5 remote, parallel, 6, 7, 8, 9 separate and tolerably equidistant, 7 to 
termen, 10 little approximated, 11 from I / 3 , accessory cell developed. 
Hind wing 2 / s , ovate-trapezoid, elongate, dilated, broadest at 3 / 4 , cilia 
under 1 ; 2 from beyond 5 / 6 , 3 and 4 short-stalked, 5 bent up towards base 
and approximated to 6, 6 and 7 separate, tolerably parallel along basal 
half, then diverging. 
Genotype: Toxopeia demodes spec, nov., female. 
Possibly nearest to Anoista Turner, 1939, from Tasmania, in which 
genus vein 7 in the fore wing terminates in the apex, while the veins 
2 — 6 are equidistant and the labial palpi are smooth-scaled. 
Dedicated to the late Dr. L. J. Toxopeus, the leader of the Netherlands 
party of the Expedition. 
