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purple streaks; two elongate blackish dots: before I / 3 and before 2 / 3 of 
termen, beyond and before the submarginal purple streak, respectively (in- 
distinct in male); apex and termen suffused with fulvous-tawny, lower 
half of termen with a narrow marginal dark fuscous line. Cilia shining 
fuscous-purple. Hind wing deep coffee-brown with golden gloss, basal 
two-fifths in male yellow-orange, traversed by two longitudinal streaks 
of fuscous irroration, in female deep orange with a small subbasal fuscous 
spot. on upper edge of cell. Cilia golden, basal third deep coffee-brown, 
dorsal cilia orange throughout. 
Tegumen short. Uncus very large, bifid, points narrowed, porrect. 
Gnathos absent. Transtilla, a broad band. Valva with very broad base, 
narrowed posteriorly, costa thickened, strongly curved, forming a blunt 
projection at base, cucullus rounded; harpe, a longitudinal small sclerite. 
Vinculum moderate. Anellus tubular, enveloping dorsal part of aedoeagus, 
with a ventral spit, bristled along edges. Aedoeagus rather short, truncate, 
with dilated basal half, and with a small apical tooth. (Slide no. 1047 D, 
holotype.) 
Ovipositor floricomous, semispheroid. Ostium erect, with strongly 
sclerotized edge. Limen, a strong transverse fold below ostium, dilated in 
middle, at- each side with a moderate flap, bearing four strong bristles. 
Ductus bursae narrow, long, upper half densely denticulate, lower half 
coiled. Bursa copulatrix ovoid. Signum, a robust spike with dilated and 
flattened base. (Slide no. 1048 D, allotype.) 
Araucaria Camp, 800 m, March 24, 1939 (holotype, male). Bernhard 
Camp, 50 m, October 20, 1938 (allotype, female). Two specimens. 
Choreutis Hubner, 1826 
Choreutis Hubner, 1826, Verz. bek. Schra., p. 373. Meyricic, Gener. Ins., fasc. 
164, p. 24, 1916. Fletcher, Mem. Dept. Agr. Ind., Ent., vol. 11, p. 47, 1929. 
Porpe Hubner, 1826, Verz. bek. Schm., p. 373. 
Millieria Ragonot, 1874, Bull. Soc. Ent. France, ser. 5, vol. 4, p. 173, 1874. 
Ripismia Wocke, 1876, in Heinemann, Schmett. Deutschl., ser. 2, vol. 2.,p. 399. 
Choreutidia Sauber, 1902, in Semper, Sclunett. Philipp., vol. 2, p. 399. 
Key to the Papuan species 
1. Fore wing with five transverse bands of white speckling, fourth band with a 
loop in middle streptatma Meyrick 
Fore wing with two such bands and a longitudinal patch to apex 
simplex spec. nov. 
Choreutis simplex spec. nov. (fig. 749) 
cj 13 mm. Head, thorax and abdomen fuscous-grey, lower part of face 
white. Antenna black ringed with white. Palpus with median segment 
dilated by three long projecting pencil-like tufts posteriorly, terminal 
segment with a median tuft anteriorly; median segment with basal half 
