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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
Monopis victa spec. nov. (fig. 838) 
$ 15 mm. Head sordid white. Antenna dark fuscous, scape white. 
Palpus dark fuscous, tip whitish. Thorax dark fuscous. Abdomen glossy 
pale fuscous. Legs glossy pale fuscous-ochreous, anterior and median 
legs dark fuscous above, articulations of segments pale ochreous. Fore 
wing with veins 3 and 4 short-stalked, 9 and 10 connate; hyaline discal 
spot median; elongate, moderately dilated, costa curved at base, con- 
siderably bent along posterior two-thirds, apex obtusely pointed, termen 
moderately rounded, oblique. Dark fuscous-brown, hardly purplish- 
tinged, markings white with irregular edges. A patch extending from x / 4 to 
beyond middle of dorsum, broadly rounded above, reaching more than 
3 / 4 across wing, slightly outwards-oblique, edges rather irregular, serrate, 
a small dentation anteriorly below fold; this patch is centred with faint 
pale yellow suffusion and bears a series of minute curved transverse dark 
fuscous strigulae along dorsum, median st.rigula continued across the white 
patch, sinuate, tolerably vertical; a large subtriangular spot from before 
middle to before 3 / 4 of costa, inwardly oblique, with irregular edges, 
indefinitely truncate in cell, centred with pale yellow suffusion and marked 
with a series of small transverse fuscous marks along costal edge : a small 
transverse white streak along closing vein, separated from preceding; a 
rather obscure moderate semicircular patch on dorsum before tornus, with 
irregular edge: sordid white somewhat irrorated with fuscous points, 
tending to form transverse strigulae; a transverse whitish fascia from 
costa before apex to upper half of termen, inwardly angulated in middle, 
with irregular edges, obscured by fuscous strigulation, containing a 
rounded fuscous spot and isolating a rounded spot of dark ground colour 
in apex which contains a lew white points anteriorly. Cilia (imperfect) dark 
brownish-fuscous mixed with white towards apex, white bars opposite 
extremities of the subapical fascia, cilia in tornus whitish. Hind wing 
fuscous-golden-bronze, glossy, cilia bronze- whitish. 
Ovipositor apparently entirely atrophied, postapophyses short for the 
genus, very slender. Limen triangularly notched. C'olliculum moderate, 
somewhat constricted in middle. Anapophyses rather weak. (Slide no. 
1140 D, type.) 
Bernhard Camp, 50 m, September 8, 1938. One specimen. Closely allied 
with the following species, differing by connate veins 9 and 10 in the fore 
wing and by the median position of the hyaline spot. Both M. lacticaput 
and victa can easily be distinguished from M. trimaculella (Snellen, 1905) 
by the rather suffused costal and dorsal spots which in the latter species 
are sharply edged, w hile the second dorsal spot is of more regular triangular 
shape. 
By the courtesy of Dr. C. 0 . van Regteren Altena of the Leiden 
Museum we received in Buitenzorg at the time Snellen’s cotype (a female) 
of Blabophanes trimaculella from Celebes, Bonthain, for comparison. 
