MICROLEPID OPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
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Fig. 793 : Hypectopa ornithograpta gen. nov., spec, nov., male, head and wing neuration. 
discoidal very outwardly oblique, 8 as a short branch of 7 towards base. 
Genotype Hypectopa ornithograpta spec, nov., male. 
Allied to the preceding and to Parectopa Meyrick, differing from the 
latter by the absence of four veins in the fore wing. 
Hypectopa ornithograpta spec. nov. (figs. 793, 798) 
Sgng = bird, yodrpai = to write 
12 mm. Head whitish with faint golden gloss. Antenna fuscous, finely 
ringed with white. Palpus white, median segment infuscated, terminal 
segment with a dark fuscous median band. Thorax whitish, slightly mixed 
with fuscous. Abdomen whitish, bases of segments dark fuscous, anal 
tuft pale ochreous. Legs white, tibiae and tarsi with broad blackish bands, 
posterior tibia greyish-l’uscous, with a faint cloudy median, and a subapical 
band. Fore wing lanceolate, rather narrow, costa gradually curved, apex 
pointed. White with slight golden gloss, markings fuscous-bronze. A rather 
short blackish longitudinal spot on base of costa, narrowly continued along 
basal fifth of costal edge, posteriorly confluent with top of a semi-circular 
mark on upper half of wing; this mark is continued anteriorly by an ill- 
defined, inwardly oblique transverse line to dorsum, posteriorly by an 
outwardly oblique rather narrow transverse fascia, somewhat thickened 
below, inwardly angulate in fold, lower extremity rounded, not reaching 
dorsum ; six pairs of undulate, rather irregular outwardly oblique transverse 
lines from x / 3 to 4 / s of costa, interspaces between pairs somewhat broader 
than distance between the lines of each pair, posteriorly all interspaces 
