MICROLEPIDOPTERA OE NEW GUINEA 
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Asymplecta phorbiophora spec. nov. (fig. 824) 
(poQfieia = halter, (pcooj — to wear 
14 mm. Head with vertex fuscous-grey, orbits narrowly edged with 
white, frons and face shining white. Antenna fuscous-grey above, banded 
with white below, scape white, a dorsal streak and a subapical ring dark 
grey. Palpus with median segment rather long, terminal segment distinctly 
under 1 ; white, dorsum of median and terminal segments with a dilated 
black streak from beyond base, terminal segment with anterior fringe of 
scales slightly mixed with fuscous. Thorax fuscous-grey with golden gloss, 
a broad suffused transverse anterior band extending over tegulae, extreme 
anterior edge and shoulder suffused with blackish. Abdomen fuscous, 
posterior halves of segments whitish-fuscous, venter whitish, anal tuft pale 
grey-fuscous. Legs whitish, anterior tibia and tarsus blackish, segments 
with narrow white apical rings, posterior tibia with long rough projecting 
bristly hairs above, short hairs beneath. Fore wing rather narrow, elongate- 
ovate, pointed, costa moderately curved, termen gently rounded, extremely 
oblique. Fuscous-grey with bright golden gloss; a whitish costal streak 
from base to apex, gradually moderately dilated towards base, so as to 
occupy one fourth of wing breadth there, narrowest at 3 / 5 , gradually dilated 
again towards apex and extending over upper fourth of termen; this 
streak bears three small fuscous marks along extremities of veins 10 — 8, 
a faint longitudinal mark before these and a short marginal dark fuscous 
streak on termen below apex; base of costal edge suffused with dark grey. 
Cilia (imperfect) white, along lower half of termen and in tornus pale grey. 
Hind wing whitish suffused with fuscous-brassy-bronze, veins darker, 
apical third purplish-tingcd. Cilia glossy fuscous with an indication of 
paler bars along termen. 
Tegumen and saccus forming a ring together, saccus broadly rounded. 
Uncus absent. Gnathos paired, each arm a strong narrowed porrect. rod 
supporting a membraneous, semicircular pending plate, base of each arm 
dilated and articulating with a strong bristly knob at top of tegumen. 
Anal tube wide. Valva large, narrowed towards base, cucullus circular, 
covered with fine bristles, forming a thicker patch towards dorsal edge, 
sacculus separate posteriorly, harpe, a strong sclerotization opposite top 
of sacculus. Anellus elongate, caulis shaped like a strong and long rod. 
Aedoeagus strong, curved, cuspidate. Cornuti, two moderate spikes. 
(Slide no. 1083 D, type.) 
Sigi Camp, 1500 m, February 27, 1939. One specimen. Closely alhed to 
A. circumflua Meyrick, from Java, differing chiefly in the presence of a 
transverse white band on the thorax and by the larger size. 
