MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
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Lobes of uncus broad, with obliquely rounded tops, beset with strong 
bristles. No gnathos. Anal tube weak, long. Saccus slender, moderate. 
Valva rather short, slightly narrowed, cucullus separate, clavate; sacculus 
not defined at base, ending in a long curved slender spike; harpe, a 
transverse oblique bristled ridge. Anellus, a conical tube, minutely dentate. 
Aedoeagus moderate, slightly bent, pointed. (Slide no. 1087 D, holotype.) 
Letterbox Camp, 3600 m, September 8, 1938 (holotype), Scree Valley 
Camp, 3800 m, November 19—26, 1938. Four specimens. Closely allied 
to the preceding. 
Opogona salpictes spec. nov. (figs. 816, 826, 827) 
oaXmxzris = trumpeter 
9 mm, $11 mm. Head purplish-fuscous, fillet and face shining whitish. 
Antenna ochreous-whitish. Palpus sordid light fuscous. Thorax pale 
golden-yellow, anteriorly edged with purplish-fuscous. Abdomen pale 
golden-ochreous. Legs glossy ochreous-whitish, posterior tibia clothed 
with very long fine appressed hairs, forming a long pencil at apex. Fore 
wing lanceolate, costa moderately curved, apex acute, not produced, 
termen slightly rounded, extremely oblique. Light fuscous-purple, slightly 
mixed with dark fuscous scales; base of costa suffused with dark fuscous; 
markings whitish-yellow, with a golden gloss : a broad patch along dorsum 
reaching to middle of wing length, at base occupying moie than halt of 
wing breadth, moderately attenuated posteriorly, connected with top of 
an elongate-triangular patch, base of which occupies median third of costa, 
this patch is edged anteriorly in and above middle of disc by an irroration 
of blackish-fuscous scales and posteriorly by a single minute blackish- 
fuscous point below middle and a lew fuscous scales on costa. Cilia glossy 
yellowish-whitish, appearing pale fuscous in certain lights. Hind wing pale 
fuscous with a faint purplish gloss, cilia as in fore wing. 
Male genitalia very much resembling those of the preceding species. 
Lobes of uncus somewhat less rounded. Anus more sclerotised. Valva with 
a less thickened cucullus, sacculus with a shorter, less pointed projection, 
harpe shorter. Saccus longer. Aedoeagus not pointed. (Slide no. 1084 D, 
holotype.) 
Ostium moderate, cup-shaped, two obliquely rounded lobes above 
ostium, with constricted bases and bristly tops. Limen, an erect-ovate 
plate covering ostium. Ductus bursae somewhat sclerotized above and 
forming a moderate colliculum. Bursa copulatrix weak. Signum large, 
semilunar, with two acute horns at each extremity and two curved arms 
in middle. (Slide no. 1082 D, allotype.) 
Top Camp, 2100 m, January 24, 1939 (holotype, male), January 21, 
1939 (allotype, female). Two specimens, female rather damaged. 
