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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OP NEW GUINEA 
occupying about the third fourth of disc from below costa to above 
middle ; a few dots scattered between this and tornus ; a row of larger and 
darker subtriangular dots along dorsum from beyond base to before end 
of cell; a row of such dots along termen from tornus, interneural, ter- 
minating in a larger apical black spot. Cilia white, a subapical row of some 
four to five distant small dots. Hind wing pale grey, cilia whitish. 
Tegumen membraneous. Uncus absent. Gnathos (?) two transverse 
bristly lobes touching each other ventrally. Anus large, \ alva elongate- 
ovate, slightly sinuate. Vinculum strong, broad, with long saccus. Anellus 
lobes short, truncate. Aedoeagus long, straight. (Slide no. 1098 D, type.) 
Letterbox Camp, 3600 m, August 30, 1938. One specimen. 
Dieda gen. nov. (fig. 813) 
6ia = apart, eldog = shape 
Head smooth. Ocellus posterior. Proboscis developed. Antenna 2 / 3 , in 
male pubescent, scape moderate, with a large flap of scales anteriorly. 
Labial palpus curved, ascending, basal segment with a rough projecting 
hair-brush beneath, median segment smooth, slender, rather long (terminal 
Fig. 813: Dieda scuticornis gen. nov., spec, nov., female, head and wing neuration. 
segment missing). Maxillary palpus absent. Thorax without crest. Anterior 
and median legs normal (posterior legs missing). Fore wing elongate, 
gradually dilated, moderately pointed; lb furcate, 2 and 3 closely approx- 
imated from angle, 2 weak, 4 absent, 5 and 6 somewhat converging with 
3 towards margin of wing, diverging from 7 which is separate, to termen, 
8 — 10 approximated from upper angle of cell, 11 from somewhat beyond 
middle, indication of a pleurostigma above this vein, no accessory cell, 
parting vein present, furcate, weak. Hind wing 1, elongate-semiovate, 
cilia 1 ; 2 from 3 / 4 , 3 from angle, 4 from angular projection of discoidal vein, 
remote and parallel to 5 which is median, 6 absent, 7 widely remote, 
discoidal inwardly oblique between 5—7, a strong parting vein from base, 
terminating in base of 5. 
