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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OP NEW GUINEA 
Ostium simple, without limen or colliculum. Signum long, slender, 
without denticles. (Slide no. 1127 D, holotype.) 
Sigi Camp, 1500 m, February 24, 1939 (holotype), February 27, 1939. 
Three specimens. 
Docostoma gen. nov. (fig. 761) 
doyj'iQ = bean, arojxa = mouth 
Head in male with loose scales, side-tufts roughly spreading, head in 
female with loosely appressed scales ; face smooth. Ocellus small, posterior. 
Proboscis developed. Antenna 3 / 4 , in male ciliate, ciliations over 1, scape 
elongate, strongly flattened, concave so as to form a small eyecap, with a 
Fig. 761: Docostoma insignis gen. nov., spec, nov., male head (left), female, head 
(right) and wing neuration. 
strong pecten, in female antenna simple, scape moderate, not flattened. 
Labial palpus in male long, curved, ascending, very stout and smooth 
throughout, terminal segment 1, as stout as median, tip conical; in female 
long, recurved, smooth, median segment exceeding base of antenna, 
slightly thickened, terminal segment 1, slender, acute. Maxillary palpus 
minute, appressed. Thorax without crest. Posterior tibia with dense 
bristly subappressed hairs above and beneath. Fore wing lanceolate, cell 
long; lb furcate, 2 very short, from near angle, 3 short, from angle, 5 
parallel, median, 6 to costa, 7 out of the middle of 6 (6 and 7 stalked), 8, 9 
and 10 nearly approximated from the upper angle of cell, 11 from slightly 
before middle. Hind wing 3 / 4 , lanceolate, cilia 2 ; 2 from 2 / 3 , 3 and 4 stalked 
from angle, 5 parallel, median, 6 absent, 7 gently sinuate : curved upward 
and approximated to 8 beyond base, curved downward and approximated 
to 5 in middle, to apex. 
Genotype Docostoma insignis spec, nov., male, female. 
