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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OP NEW GUINEA 
Snellen did not fix the type of this species and therefore we will nse this 
opportunity to do so. The choice in this case is easy : the species has been 
described in the Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, vol. 28, p. 21, 1905, after two 
specimens from Celebes (now in the Leiden Museum), one of which, a male 
from Makassar, still in perfect condition, is figured on plate 2, figs. 5 — 7 
and this specimen we appoint now as lectotype. The other specimen has 
been erroneously indicated by Snellen as a male, but appears to be a 
female instead. 
Monopis lacticaput spec. nov. (fig. 837) 
¥ 18 mm. Head white tinged creamy. Antenna dark bronze-fuscous, 
lighter towards apex. Palpus dark fuscous, terminal segment except base 
whitish with brassy gloss. Thorax dark fuscous. Abdomen fuscous. Legs 
pale ochreous (anterior and median pairs missing). Fore wing with vein 2 
from towards angle, 3 and 4 stalked from angle, 9 and 10 short-stalked 
from upper angle of cell, hyaline spot slightly but distinctly antemedian: 
elongate-subovate, costa rather curved along posterior half, slightly so 
at base, apex rather pointed, termen little curved above, oblique. Whitish, 
suffused and irrorated with fuscous, also suffused with pale yellow. A dark 
fuscous basal patch, a costal streak of fuscous irroration along anterior 
half dotted with dark fuscous along costal edge and an irregular trans- 
verse slightly outwards-oblique streak of the same colour from 1 / 3 of 
costa to middle of dorsum, attenuated below; these markings enclose a 
large rounded-ovate, slightly outwards-oblique patch of ground colour, 
with base from 1 / 5 to 3 / 5 of dorsum, speckled with dark fuscous posteriorly, 
suffused with pale yellow anteriorly, with fuscous along dorsum; further- 
more, a broad, irregular vertical transverse band of dark fuscous irroration 
at 3 / 4 , becoming rather abruptly narrowed and paler on lower half; a 
suffused streak connecting middle of the anterior edge of this band with 
2 / 3 of posterior edge of the first transverse streak, thus enclosing an 
inwardly oblique transverse patch of ground colour from s / 5 of costa, much 
suffused with pale yellow, its point containing the hyaline discal spot; 
finally, the fuscous markings enclose also an ill-defined semicircular patch 
of ground colour from beyond middle of dorsum to tornus, moderately 
transversely strigulated with fuscous; a rounded subapical patch of 
ground colour occupying about 1 / 5 of wing, traversed by a median streak 
of pale purple suffusion ending by a fuscous apical spot. Cilia light ochreous 
mixed with fuscous, dark fuscous opposite apex and above tornus. Hind 
wing dark brassy-fuscous, with purplish gloss in certain lights, cilia 
whitish-grey, glossy. 
Ovipositor short, top indent, lobes and sensillae atrophied. Postapo- 
physes short for the genus, slender. Limen shortly bilobed. Colliculum 
distinctly narrowed, rather short. Anapophyses slightly longer than in 
preceding species. (Slide no. 1139 D, type.) 
