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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
Opogona chrysocapna spec. nov. (figs. 828, 829) 
XQvaog — gold, xanvog = smoke 
$ 13 mm. Head and thorax light tawny, broad fillet between antenna 
with a golden shine, face shining creamy-golden. Antenna pale ochreous, 
becoming tawny towards base, scape fuscous below. Abdomen fuscous- 
whitish, suffused with darker fuscous on dorsum. Legs whitish-fuscous, 
glossy, posterior leg suffused with tawny above, tibia with long fine 
appressed hairs projecting in a pencil beyond apex, tibia clothed with fine 
appressed bristly scales. Fore wing ovate-lanceolate, narrowed, apex acute. 
Light tawny with faint brassy tinge, posterior part finely suffused with 
rather light smoky grey, with a faint purplish gloss, ill-defined edge of 
this suffusion running parallel to fold well beyond it, i.e., from base of 
costa to about tornus. Cilia light sandy-fuscous. Hind wing glossy, rather 
deep brassy-golden, becoming pale towards base, cilia fuscous-ochreous. 
Limen subtubular, covering ostium which is flanked by two erect plates, 
not dilated at the top. Ductus bursae simple. Signum long, dilated, 
trumpet-like, open at one side. (Slide no. 1088 D, type.) 
Mist Camp, 1800 m, September 28, 1938. One specimen. 
Opogona subtilis spec. nov. (figs. 817, 818) 
? 8 mm. Head, antenna, palpus, thorax whitish-golden, fillet of vertex 
with golden shine. Abdomen pale grey with golden gloss. Legs pale 
ochreous, posterior tibia with long fine subappressed hairs above. Fore 
wing lanceolate, acutely pointed, costa gradually but moderately curved. 
Pale tawny -golden with faint purplish gloss in certain lights ; base of costal 
edge with a fine fuscous streak. Cilia concolorous. Hind wing very pale 
fuscous with golden gloss. Cilia rather dull, pale fuscous. 
Ostium, a narrow split, an erect plate at each side, bristled apically, 
ventrite below ostium with reticulate surface. Ductus bursae simple. 
Signum, a concave elongate plate, with one extremity pointed, other 
forming two straight acute horns and a median thick projection perpen- 
dicular to these. (Slide no. 1092 D, type.) 
Rattan Camp, 1200 m, February 4, 1939. One specimen. 
Asymplecta Meyrick, 1921 
Asymplecta Meyrick, 1921, Zool. Meded. Mus. Leiden, vol. 6, pp. 193 — 194. 
Fletcher, Mem. Agrie. Ind., Ent., vol. 11, p. 26, 1929. 
Pycnobela Turner, 1923, Trans. Roy. Soe. South Austral., vol. 47, pp. 182 — 183. 
