MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
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Tinea cirrhoceros spec. nov. (fig. 851) 
j (iQoog = pale yellow, Y.toac, = horn 
14.5 mm. Head sordid light oehreous, vertex mixed with a few dark 
fuscous hairs, face and collar dark fuscous. Antenna pale oehreous. Palpus 
blackish, tip pale oehreous; terminal segment under 1 / 2 . Thorax dark 
fuscous with a violet gloss. Abdomen pale fuscous-tawny. Legs pale 
oehreous, anterior leg blackish, posterior tibia with smoothly appressed 
bristly hairs projecting beyond apex. Fore wing ovate, costa curved, apex 
and termen rounded. Dark fuscous, with a violet gloss. Costa suffused 
with dull dark fuscous, cilia brownish-fuscous, a broad pale oehreous bar 
in tornus. Hind wing glossy olive-coppery-golden. Cilia glossy, pale 
fuscous. 
Tegumen elongate, soldered with uncus which is triangular, with a 
strong, tolerably pointed top. Transtilla rising, erect-triangular, with long 
slender legs. Valva rather narrow, elongate-ovate. Vinculum strong. 
Saccus short. Aedoeagus long, gradually dilated towards extremities. 
Cornuti, numerous minute bristles (vesica partially extruded in mount). 
Slide no. 1144 D, type. 
Rattan Camp, 1150 m, February 4, 1939. One specimen. Of the group 
of Tinea glabrella Walker. 
Tinea mellitacta spec. nov. 
cJ 10 mm. Head pale yellow. Antenna dark fuscous. Palpus dark fuscous, 
tip pale oehreous; terminal segment over x / 2 . Thorax and abdomen pale 
yellowish-ochreous, venter whitish (somewhat rubbed; tip of abdomen 
missing). Legs pale oehreous, anterior leg fuscous above. Fore wing 
elongate-ovate, costa curved, apex obtusely pointed, termen rounded, 
oblique. Ochreous-whitish suffused with golden-yellow, coarsely scattered 
with dark brown scales, forming an ill -defined basal patch; indication of a 
transverse outwardly oblique submedian fascia, formed by a very sparse 
dark brown irroration and a somewhat denser band at 3 / 4 , parallel to the 
preceding, extended to before apex but becoming less dense towards costa 
posteriorly. Cilia sordid yellow mixed with dark brown. Hind wing greyish- 
coppery-bronze, rather fight, a whitish streak along basal half of costa, 
cilia whitish with a suffused antemedian grey fascia. 
Rattan Camp, 1200 m, March 2, 1939. One specimen. 
Micrerethista Meyrick, 1938 
Micrerethista Meybick, 1938, Trans. Entom. Soc. Lond., vol. 87, p. 527. 
This interesting genus may be redescribed as follows. 
Head with long dense rough hairs, sometimes forming two strong erect 
lateral and one median (longitudinal) keels on vertex. Ocellus posterior. 
