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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
Caloptilia euhelia spec. nov. (fig. 806) 
evrjfaog = sunny 
g 14.5 mm. Head and thorax pale golden-ochreous, collar and shoulder 
reddish-orange (thorax damaged). Antenna pale orange ringed with dark 
brown, scape reddish-orange. Palpus golden-yellow, terminal segment 
pale pink, a dark lilac-fuscous subapical band, tip golden-yellow. Abdomen 
pale orange. Legs golden -yellow, anterior leg suffused with pmk above, 
tibia blackish-lilac except below; median tibia pink, apical half above 
blackish-lilac, below pink, with a subapical transverse band. Pore wing 
ovate-lanceolate, broadest at 2 / 3 , costa moderately curved at base and 
along posterior third, apex pointed, termen little curved, extremely oblique. 
Glossy pale yellow: an irregular suffused longitudinal pinkish-orange 
streak from base along fold, moderately broad to before middle of wing, 
with a small projection to base of dorsum; a less distinct projection to 
3 / 4 of dorsum, before its middle abruptly dilated and occupying more than 
the lower half of wing to dorsum, with upper edge forming a triangular 
projection beyond middle which reaches to upper edge of cell, thence 
gently concave, to costa before apex; a blackish-purple strongly outwards- 
obhque erect suffused triangular spot on basal sixth of costa, with lower 
edge limited by fold, with top acute, on 1 / 3 of fold; an irregular longitudinal 
patch of dense deep blackish-purple irroration on orange streak extending 
from middle of wing to before apex, parallel along anterior 2 / 3 and filling 
orange streak except its narrow edges; posterior third of this patch 
abruptly dilated into a subquadrate blotch reaching from below costa to 
tornus, with posterior edge inwardly oblique, straight and well-defined. 
Cilia golden-yellow, basal two-thirds along costa before apex, in apex and 
along upper part of termen suffused with orange. Hind wing pale orange 
tinged pinkish, cilia light orange. 
Valva curved, dilated, truncate, cucullus bluntly pointed above, 
gradually rounded below; an ovate knob at base of costa, bristled posteri- 
orly, pointed above. Vinculum rather broad, strongly elongate. Aedoeagus 
slender, moderately long, gradually dilated along basal third. (Slide no. 
1055 D, type.) 
Iebele Camp, 2250 m, December 1, 1938. One specimen. 
Caloptilia tmetica spec. nov. (figs. 801, 802) 
t/lii']tix6c = cutting 
cj> 13 mm. Head fuscous-white, collar purplish -fuscous, face shining white. 
Antenna pale golden-ochreous, finely ringed with fuscous. Palpus snow- 
white, apical half of terminal segment light bronze. Thorax rather light 
purple (damaged), pecten dark fuscous. Abdomen glossy greyish-fuscous, 
venter yellowish-white. Legs: anterior and median femur and tibia dark 
fuscous, above and on inner sides violet-purple, anterior tibia with a small 
