MICROLEPIDOPTERA OP SEW GUINEA 
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Micrerethista eustena spec. nov. (figs. 842, 843, 850) 
ev = true, OTEvdg = narrow 
g 18 — 26 mm. Head and palpus white densely strewn with blackish, 
palpus outwardly black, terminal segment short, long erect fringe of median 
segment apparently along medio-lateral edge, appressed to face. Thorax 
whitish irrorated with dark fuscous-grey; an expanded posterior tuft of 
sparse scales, white with dark fuscous tips. Abdomen white. Legs greyish- 
Genitalia of Tineidae. Fig. 851: Tinea cirrhoceros spec, nov., male. Fig. 852: Narycia 
negligata spec, nov., male. 
white, anterior femur and tibia dark grey, in both sexes femur with a 
comb of scales below, tibia short, expanded with dense, appressed scales, 
tarsus light fuscous, normal; posterior leg normal, long, slender: femur 
greyish, apical l / 8 of tibia and entire tarsus fuscous-grey, mixed with 
white. Fore wing with 3 and 4 stalked or connate; lanceolate, slightly 
dilated, costa moderately curved at base, straight posteriorly, apex 
pointed, termen rounded, oblique. Greyish-white, sparsely irrorated with 
fuscous, markings fuscous or blackish. A small blackish streak along 
base of costa; costal edge irrorated with fuscous throughout, sometimes 
a row of some four blackish-fuscous dots along vein 12; indistinct lines of 
fuscous irroration in disc forming transverse strigulation and retination, 
six cloudy costal dots on terminations of veins along costa from 3 /r, to 
before apex; a row of four larger dark fuscous or blackish dots along 
termen, these terminal dots more or less confluent; an ill-defined longi- 
tudinal patch of coarse irroration in middle of disc beyond cell, more or 
less comiected by finer irroration with posterior fourth of dorsum. Cilia 
fuscous-white, speckled with dark fuscous or blackish, except towards base, 
blackish-fuscous towards apex. Hind wing triangular-lanceolate, costa 
bent and prominent in middle, tornus rather prominent; very pale fuscous- 
bronze, veins dark fuscous. Cilia fuscous-white, base tinged darker fuscous. 
