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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
shorter antennae and labial palpi, and has vein 7 in the hind wing closely 
approximated to 6 at the base. 
Key to the species of Agalmoscelis 
1. Abdomen orange with black markings 2 
Abdomen black 3 
2. Hind tibia black xanthochares Meybick 
Hind tibia metallic-green with large orange whorls of scales 
resplendent spec. nov. 
3. Abdomen with white markings deceptoria Meybick 
Abdomen with blue-metallic markings peridoxa Meybick 
Agalmoscelis resplendens spec. nov. (figs. 720, 724) 
$ 15 — 17 mm. Head and thorax brilliant deep metallic -green. Antenna 
blackish becoming bronze posteriorly, about third-fourth white, apex 
greyish. Palpus orange, apex of median and entire terminal segment 
suffused with blackish. Abdomen deep orange, a small basal spot, a 
suffused patch on second tergite and two anal tergites black, valvae 
suffused with blackish along edge, venter yellow, anterior half slightly 
infuscated. Legs deep orange (anterior legs missing); median femur dark 
above, tibia and tarsus with a narrow dorsal black line, apex of tibia also 
suffused with blackish, outer spurs black externally ; posterior leg in male : 
femur with a narrow dorsal brownish stripe, tibia with a moderate median 
and a large apical whorl of bristly deep orange scales, ultimate whorl 
occupying apical third of tibia, tip suffused with blackish, dorsum of tibia 
between whorls metallic green-blue, spurs pale ochreous, towards base 
becoming metallic green-blue; tarsus with first, second, and base of third 
segment black, elsewhere snow-white; posterior leg in female with small 
median and apical whorls of scales, pale orange mixed with bluish; other- 
wise as in male. Pore wing with veins 7 and 8 coincident, 2 almost 
obliterate; narrowly lanceolate, gradually dilated, broadest at s / 6 , apex 
rounded. Blackish-brown, apical area dark fuscous. A rather narrow 
costal orange streak from beyond base to 4 / s , posterior extremity dilated 
so as to form a slightly outwards-oblique transverse dark orange band 
occupying fourth fifth of wing, with edges somewhat serrate; a narrow 
blackish brown subcostal streak penetrating to the middle of band from 
basal area and enclosing a pale blue metallic dot ; dark basal area with a 
subcostal and a subdorsal brilliant emerald-green metallic streaks, lower 
one narrowed anteriorly and not reaching base; dark fuscous apical area 
with a median longitudinal ill-defined irroration of pale violet-blue 
metallic scales. Cilia dark fuscous, on dorsum opposite orange band 
tinged orange. Hind wing golden-orange, posterior 3 / 5 bronze-black. 
Cilia black, along dorsum towards base becoming orange. 
Tegumen rather short, broad. Uncus membraneous, large, erect-ovate. 
Gnathos large, paired, each half forming a rounded knob with wreaths of 
