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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OE NEW GUINEA 
Guttigera albicaput spec. nov. 
10. mm. Head snow-white, frons edged with pale fuscous. Antenna 
pale fuscous, white-ringed, scape white with fuscous apex. Palpus white, 
median segment with an apical spot above, apical segment with a broad 
median band: blackish. Thorax (damaged) whitish. (Abdomen missing.) 
Legs (anterior missing) white, median tibia and basal segment of tarsus 
black above, other segments with apical black rings, posterior leg whitish, 
tibia with a faint postmedian and an apical greyish band, posterior tarsus 
with a grey apical band on each segment. Fore wing lanceolate, slightly 
dilated, costa moderately curved anteriorly, apex pointed. Sordid white, 
densely irrorated with fuscous, suffused with dark grey-fuscous along 
costa and dorsum from beyond base. Base of costal edge suffused with 
blackish. Six to seven rather ill-defined wedge-shaped whitish costal dots 
from 1 l i to before apex, slightly continued across wing by whitish irrora- 
tion; a whitish dot in tornus; coarse white irroration from beyond cell to 
before apex, in its middle confluent, so as to form an irregular transverse 
white band. Cilia along costa grey-fuscous barred with white opposite 
costal dots, cilia elsewhere fuscous- whitish, faintly tinged ochreous with 
a dark fuscous antemedian and an apical partially interrupted fascia, 
both convergent on apex of cilia about opposite middle of termen, a 
submedian interrupted similar line from opposite middle of termen to 
tornus, and a median line converging with the preceding posteriorly. 
Hind wing glossy greyish-white, cilia whitish with pale golden gloss. 
Iebele Camp, 2250 m, November 9, 1938. One specimen. 
Hypectopa gen. nov. (fig. 793) 
Head with a smooth flap of scales over vertex and upper half of face, 
less smoothly appressed laterally, side tults slightly spreading, small loose 
tufts of scales on each side of face from below base of antenna. Ocellus 
not perceptible. Proboscis developed. Antenna 1, filiform, subserrulate 
posteriorly, scape moderately elongate, slightly clavate, without pecten. 
Labial palpus long, curved, subascending, median segment slightly 
thickened with scales, roughish towards apex below and at apex, terminal 
segment 1, slightly thickened beyond base, acute. Maxillary palpus 
moderate, slightly curved, drooping, loosely short-scaled. All tibiae 
smooth -scaled. Fore wing lanceolate, rather blunt-pointed, lb ill-defined, 
apparently simple, 2 from angle, 3 absent, 4 absent, 5 close and parallel 
to 2, 6 absent, 7 to costa, 8 absent, 10 remote, short, upper edge of cell 
triangularly projecting at 2 / 5 , emitting vein 11 from this projection, thence 
deeply curved downward, cell open between 5 and 10. Hind wing 1 / 2 , 
lanceolate, pointed, cilia 5; 2 from towards base, short, 3 and 4 connate, 
short, cell open between 4 and 5, 5 and 6 connate from acute angle of cell, 
of which the lower edge is formed by median vein, 7 separate, to apex, 
