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MICROLEPID OPTBE A OP NEW GUINEA 
obtuse; blackish-fuscous, apex of terminal segment pale ochreous. Thorax 
dark fuscous with a purplish gloss, a semicircular light yellow spot on the 
anterior extremity. Abdomen pale golden-ochreous. Legs light golden- 
ochreous, anterior and median deeper ochreous, with knee infuscated. 
Fore wing with veins 2 and 3 out of 4, from angle, 7 to costa, 9 and 10 
stalked, from upper angle of cell; ovate-lanceolate, moderately broad, 
hyaline patch slightly before middle, costa moderately curved towards 
apex, less so at base, straight in middle, apex rather obtusely pointed, 
termen straight above, oblique. Glossy light lilac-purple, irrorated with 
dull purplish-brown scales, except on markings which are glossy light 
yellow. Basal fourth of costa dark fuscous, a subcostal row of small dark 
fuscous scales below this; costal edge from preceding row of scales to 
apex, light fulvous-ochreous ; a broad ill- defined pale yellow transverse 
streak from basal fifth of dorsum to 1 / 3 of costa, moderately attenuated 
above and hardly separated by a few purple scales from a large sub- 
trapezoid patch occupying the median three fifths of dorsum, anterior 
edge very oblique, posterior less oblique, angularly indent above fold, 
truncate top terminated by the lower edge of cell; an invert-triangular 
discal spot with concave anterior edge enclosing hyaline patch, posterior 
angle connected with point of an oblique wedge-shaped spot on 3 / 4 of 
costa, lower angle connected by a narrow streak along basal half of vein 
5 with an irregular oblique transverse spot halfway towards termen and 
parallel to it; top of this transverse spot almost touching a suffused 
semioval pale yellow spot on costa before apex; a su b trapezoid patch on 
dorsum before tornus, top confluent, with the streak along vein 5, anterior 
edge bluntly projecting above dorsum, posterior edge concave; dark 
brown irroration especially dense in middle of disc at 3 / 4 and forming some 
dark dots along lower edge of cell and in fold. Cilia along costa light 
fulvous-ochreous, mixed with purplish-fuscous on 1 / 5 of costa, ochreous- 
yellow elsewhere, with a fulvous-brassy suffused patch opposite apex 
and one between veins 2 — 4. Hind wing shining deep golden, costal 3 / 4 
pale ochreous. Cilia pale golden ochreous. 
Ovipositor moderately long, top deeply split, lobes naked, sensile hairs 
and bristles atrophied. Postapophyses moderately long, slender. Limen 
indent. Colliculum short, wide. Anapophyses moderately long, sinuate. 
(Slide no. 1137 D, holotype.) 
Top Camp, 2100 m, January 25, 1939 (holotype). Patrol, 1800 m, 
October 21, 1938. Lake Habbema, 3250 — 3300 m, August 8, 1938. Three 
specimen. Very distinct by yellow markings and golden coloured hind 
wings. 
Crypsitricha Meyrick, 1915 
Crypsitricha Meyrick, 1915, Trans. N. Zeal. Inst., vol. 47, p. 235. Fletcher, 
Mem. Agric. Ind., Ent., vol. 11, p. 60, 1929. 
