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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
Fig. 721: Protanystis faniiliaris spec, nov., female, wing neuration. 
apparently displayed when the insect is in repose, posterior trochanter 
normal, posterior tibia with moderate whorls of fine bristly scales at 
middle and apex, tarsus slightly thickened with smooth scales. Fore wing 
narrow, elongate, dilated, broadest at 3 / 4 , apex rounded, termen rounded, 
very oblique, lb simple, 2 from well before angle, curved, sometimes 
weak or absent, 3 and 4 connate or approximated from angle or 3 absent, 
7 and 8 stalked or coincident, to costa, 9 (according to Meyrick) some- 
times absent ?, 11 from somewhat beyond middle. Hind wing 1 or hardly 
under 1, lanceolate, slightly sinuate, cilia over 1 ; 2 — 4 of moderate length, 
2 from about s / 6 , 3 and 4 appearing stalked from top of cubital stem 
originating from base, or 3 absent, discoidal vein between 4 — 7 absent, 
5 and 6 long-stalked from base, 7 remote, parallel. 
Genotype Protanystis chalybastra Meyrick, 1921, male, female, from 
Java. 
Protanystis familiaris spec. nov. (figs. 721, 730) 
$ 13 mm. Head and thorax deep metallic-blue-green, face deep or light 
metallic-bronze. Antenna blackish, about its apical fifth white except tip. 
Abdomen black above, sometimes becoming bronzy towards base, some- 
times an ill-defined yellowish dorsal dot on third tcrgitc, venter and sides 
yellow. Legs yellow, tibiae and tarsi above dark fuscous with faint bluish- 
green shine. Fore wing with 3 absent, 7 and 8 coincident; narrow lanceolate, 
gradually dilated to before apex. Black. A deep ochreous-yellow streak 
along basal 6 / 7 of costa, terminated below by upper edge of cell except 
along posterior 2 / 5 of its length where it is triangularly dilated and reaches 
4 / s across wing, posterior edge rather well-defined, serrulate, inwardly 
oblique, straight; anterior edge of dilatation strongly outwards-oblique, 
with an acute projection in cell; this projection sometimes narrowly 
extended as a longitudinal streak of yellowish irroration to base of wing; 
a longitudinal narrow blackish streak, suffused with metallic bluish- 
green, running from base of wing above middle of disc to middle of wing; 
sometimes this streak narrowly connected with an elongate-ovate longi- 
tudinal mark in 1 / 3 of disc at 2 / s of wing length, and centred by a pale 
blue ovate dot ; anterior extremity of this mark connected by a transverse 
ill-defined blackish suffusion with costa; a deep metallic-green dot in 
