MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF FEW GUINEA 
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upper marginal, running to apex, lower straight, forming a continuation 
of the median streak, also running to apex ; a black line from base of wing 
edging median crimson streak from above, dilated in an elongate black 
spot before the above mentioned ocellus and forming a longitudinal black 
subapical streak within this ocellus; this line is finely interrupted at in- 
equal intervals beyond each interruption sending a narrow black out- 
wardly oblique line to costal edge, 6—7 lines altogether, last one vertical, 
edging the crimson ocellus anteriorly. Cilia isabel, along costa whitish, 
along upper half of termen and in apex fight yellow, a curved black fine 
from costa just before apex, thence along tips of cilia to their apices. Hind 
wing shining leaden-grey, cilia isabel. 
Tegumen broad. Valva with a narrow base and an almost circular disc, 
weakly haired. Anellus, a membraneous large rising body with narrowed 
weakly hairy top. Sacculus very long and slender. Aedoeagus very long, 
base somewhat thickened. Small coremata present. (Slide no. 1060 D, 
holotype.) 
Ostium, a small slender tube. Anapophyses furcate to middle. Ductus 
bursae long, simple. Bursa copulatrix small. Signa, strong, rather broad, 
sinuate blades with small basal plates, denticulate on inner surface and 
inner edge, denticulations becoming long fine needles towards the apices. 
(Slide no. 1061 D, allotype.) 
Letterbox Camp, valley four km from Wilhelmina Top, 3600 m, Sep- 
tember 12, 1938 (holotype, male). Letterbox Camp, 3600 m, September 4, 
1938 (allotype, female), September 5-14, 1938. Three males, one female. 
A distinct, elegant species. 
Caloptilia Hubner, 1826 
Caloptilia Hubner, 1826, Verz. bek. Schm., p. 427. Meyrick, Gener. Ins., fasc. 
128, p. 25, 1912. Fletcher, Mem. Dept. Ind., Ent., vol. 11, p. 38, 1929. Etc. 
Poeciloptilia Hubner, 1826, Verz. bek. Selim. ,p. 427. 
Oracillaria Haworth, 1828, Lep. Brit., p. 527. 
Ornix Treitschke, 1833, (nec Duponchel 1838, nec Zeller 1839), Schmett. Eur., 
vol. 9, part 2, p. 194. 
Euspilapteryx Stephens, 1835, 111. Brit. Ins., Haust., vol. 4, pp. 362—363. 
Oracilaria Zeller, 1839, Isis. vol. 32, pp. 208—209. 
Coriscium Zeller, 1839, ibidem, p. 210. 
Antiolopha Meyrick, 1894, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1894, p. 25. 
Aspilapteryx Spuler, 1910, Schm. Eur., vol. 2, p. 407, fig. 158. 
Xanthospilapleryx Spuler, 1910, ibidem, p. 407. 
Key to the Papuan species of Caloptilia 
1. Fore wing with a blackish-fuscous triangular spot on l / e of costa 
euhelia spec. nov. 
2 
No such costal spot 
2. Fore wing with five dark fuscous costal dots . . . pentaphylactis Meyrick 
Fore wing without costal dots tmetica spec. nov.. 
