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MICROLEPID OPTEBA OF NEW GUINEA 
saccus present. Aedoeagus moderate, cylindrical, slightly dilated, with a 
small subapical tooth. Vesica finely denticulate. Goremata large. (Slide 
no. 1073 D, type.) 
Araucaria Camp, 800 m, March 11, 1939. One specimen. 
Parectopa Clemens, 1860 
Parectopa Clemens, 1860, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philad., vol. 12, p. 210. Meyrick 
Gener. Ins., fasc. 128, p. 19, 1912. Etc. 
Euspilopteryx Zeller, 1847, Linn. Ent., vol. 2, pp. 313 314, 34/. 
Macarostola Meyrick:, 1907, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, vol. 32, p. 62. 
Oecophyllembius Silvestri, 1908, Boll. Lab. Zool. Portici, vol. 2, p. 196. 
Euspilapteryx Spuler, 1910, (wee Stephens 1835) Schmett. Eur., vol. 2, p. 408. 
Micrurapteryx Spuler, 1910, Sclnnett. Eur., vol. 2, p. 409. 
Parectopa ceryx spec. nov. (figs. 808, 811, 812) 
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(J, $ 13.5-14.5 mm. Head whitish-yellow, face edged laterahy with 
crimson, broader edged in female. Antenna glossy light grey, basal half 
whitish tinged pink with a narrow grey streak above, scape whitish, with 
a crimson longitudinal streak above. Palpus pale yellow, somewhat 
infuscated towards apex. Thorax pale yellow, tegula deep crimson, 
narrowly edged with pale yellow. Abdomen shining white. Legs yellowish- 
white, anterior leg with femur black above, tibia along outer side black, 
above crimson with a pale yellow postmedian transverse band, tarsus 
with basal segment narrowly streaked with black above, a median and an 
apical black band, other segments with apical black bands , median leg 
with knee blackish, tibia with a small submedian and an elongate spot: 
crimson, extreme apex black, tarsus with blackish rings around apices of 
segments; posterior tarsus with these rings brownish. Fore wing with 
veins 7 and 8 separate; narrowly lanceolate, costa straight in middle, 
slightly curved towards extremities, apex pointed. A straight deep crimson 
longitudinal median streak from base of costa to well before apex below 
middle of disc, separating a glossy whitish-yellow costal area from dull 
bright yellow dorsal area; crimson streak with a small longitudinal pro- 
jection reaching to below base of fold, and with four very inwards-oblique 
narrow slightly zigzag crimson branches reaching dorsum: beyond base, 
before 1 j i , beyond Vs and before 2 /s of win g> respectively; first branch 
interrupted so as to form an elongate crimson marginal spot in male, not 
interrupted, narrow in female; second, third and fourth branches abruptly 
dilated along dorsal edge each so as to form a small longitudinal marginal 
spot, moderately and triangularly dilated at origin; crimson median streak 
much narrowed at Ve of wing, sendin g two short diverging branches 
towards edge of wing but not reaching this, and forming a large ocellus 
in apex of wing ; edges of this ocellus are narrow, anterior almost vertical, 
