MICROLEPIDOPTERA OP NEW GUINEA 
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laterally, concave below and on inner side, posterior tibia with a median 
and an apical whorl of rather appressed long bristly scales, median whorl 
sometimes smoothly appressed and hardly perceptible, apical one some- 
times very large, reaching halfway towards median, posterior tarsus with 
basal segment roughish with short bristly scales above and beneath, 
slightly thickened. Abdomen narrow, flattened dorso-ventrally. Fore 
Fig. 720: Agalmoscelis resplendens gen. nov., spec, nov., male, head and wing 
neuration. 
wing very narrow, elongate, dilated, broadest before 4 / 5 , apex rounded, 
termen rounded, very oblique, lb simple, long, 2 reduced to a minute 
basal trunk, mostly entirely absent, 3 and 4 closely approximated from 
angle, sometimes almost parallel, 5 rather near to 4, 5 — 9 tolerably 
distant, little diverging, 7 and 8 coincident, to costa, seldom stalked, 9 
from angle, 10 from before angle, 11 absent, discoidal between 5 — 9 
vertical, weak; expansible cilia of long very fine hairs just below costa 
on under side, mostly folded and not perceptible. Hind wing 1 / 2 or slightly 
over 1 / 2 , narrowly lanceolate, cilia somewhat over 1; cubital branch 
running very near to margin, 2 — 4 very short, sometimes obliterate 
towards margin, 3 and 4 appearing stalked from base, 2 from beyond 
middle of the stalk, or 3 absent; discoidal absent, 5 and 6 long -stalked 
from base, 7 remote, parallel. 
Genotype Agalmoscelis resplendens spec, nov., male. 
Closely allied to Protanystis Meyrick, 1921, but differing by the 
strongly enlarged posterior trochanter, by the absence of the vein 11 in 
the fore wing and by a narrower hind wing; in Protanystis the cubital 
stem is remote from the margin and veins 2 — 4 consequently are of a 
considerable length. Also related to Lamprotcucha Meyrick which has 
