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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
antenna, moderately thickened at apex, terminal segment under 1 , little 
thickened, acute. Maxillary palpus vestigial. Thorax not crested. Legs 
robust, smooth, anterior tibia short, dilated with smooth scales and 
compressed laterally, tarsus short, under 1 ; posterior tibia with a smooth 
pencil of hair-scales at apex above. Fore wing broad, ovate-triangular; cell 
short ( 4 / 2 ), accessory cell, undeveloped; 2 from 4 / 5 , 3 from before angle, 
4 from angle, 4, 5, 6 , 7 + 8 and 9 remote and tolerably equidistant, 
7 and 8 stalked, 7 to termen, 9 out of upper angle, 10 absent, 11 from 
somewhat beyond middle. Hind wing 3 / 4 , short (hardly over 3 / 4 ), semiovate, 
obtusely pointed, cilia J / 2 ; 2 from beyond 2 / 3 , 3 and 4 connate from angle, 
5 — 7 remote, parallel, tolerably equidistant; closing vein tolerably straight, 
considerably outwards-oblique, hence lower angle of cell projecting. 
Genotype Porphyrocrates aurostrictu spec, nov., male. 
Perhaps nearest to Lamyristis Meyrick, 1911, from Ceylon, but 
differing chiefly by the absence of vein 10 in the fore wing. 
Porphyrocrates aurostricta spec. nov. (figs. 751, 765) 
19 mm. Head brownish-black, face and frons except sides pale orange. 
Antenna brownish-black, about apical fifth pale ochreous. Palpus pale 
ochreous, densely suffused with blackish, except a narrow basal and a 
subapical ring of terminal segment, a subapical ring of median segment 
and extreme tip of terminal which are black. Thorax brownish-black. 
Abdomen deep brown. Legs brownish-black, anterior and median tarsus 
pale orange throughout, posterior tibia and apical half of tarsus suffused 
with pale orange. Fore wing triangular-ovate, rather broad, dilated, 
broadest at 4 / s , costa moderately curved anteriorly, somewhat prominently 
bent at 2 / 3 , apex rounded, termen little rounded, long, oblique. Deep 
bronze-brassy, densely and evenly irrorated with dull dark brown. A deep 
reddish-orange transverse submedian fascia, tolerably vertical, anterior 
edge regularly and strongly concave, posterior edge serrate, with two small 
indentations: at */ 4 and at 3 / 4 , and a rounded larger excavation below 
middle, posterior edge forming a slender projection above the latter 
indentation, hooked downward. Cilia deep purplish-brown with violet and 
brassy reflections. Hind wing semiovate; deep orange, a dark brown 
basal patch not reaching costa, terminated below by vein la, outer edge 
somewhat irregular, strongly and bluntly projecting in middle; a broad 
terminal dark brown fascia occupying about '/ 6 of wing, from costa before 
apex to tornus, somewhat dilated on veins 4 — 3, narrowed to a point on 
termination of vein la; a few scattered dark brown scales along dorsum 
and in disc. Cilia as in fore wing. 
Tegumen moderate. Uncus pointed. Gnathos broad, obtuse, porrect, 
denticulate towards apex above. Transtilla, a narrow, straight, strong rod. 
Valva moderate, narrowed, costa with a strong tooth at base; a larger 
tooth and a narrow ridge above middle of disc; sacculus over 4 / 2 , rather 
