MICROLEPID OPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
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with blackish-fuscous, posterior tibia light orange, spurs and tarsus fuscous. 
Pore wing with vein 7 absent, 8 to costa, 9 separate, from upper angle of 
cell; narrowly elongate-lanceolate, broadest beyond 4 / 5 , costa undulate: 
with a slight prominence at about 1 / 5 and another one beyond middle, 
evenly rounded beyond this; apex rather rounded, termen rounded, 
extremely oblique, dorsum straight. Dull blackish-fuscous; a broad 
inwardly oblique transverse light orange band beyond base, occupying 
about Vs of wing, slightly narrowed on costa, edges irregular, obscured by 
blackish-fuscous irroration, anterior edge serrate by acute projections of 
ground colour between veins; this patch narrowly streaked along costa 
and dorsum with ground colour. Cilia blackish. Hind wing with vein 6 
absent, 7 to termen, 8 almost costal along anterior half, then abruptly 
curved, subcostal, to apex; dull blackish-fuscous, slightly paler than fore 
wing ; somewhat more than basal third light orange, with edge tolerably 
straight, irregular, projecting below costa, broadly incised from projection 
to base, top of incision on lower edge of cell. Cilia blackish-fuscous, opposite 
basal half of orange area: light orange. 
Male genitalia, fig. 839. (Slide no. 1097 D, holotype.) 
Top Camp, February 9, 1939. One specimen. Allied to the preceding. 
INCURVARIIDAE 
There are no previous records of this family from the Papuan region. 
A conspicuous novel form is introduced below. 
Ectropoceros gen. nov. (fig. 855) 
ixrooTiog = deviating, xeQUQ = horn 
Head conical, somewhat compressed dorso-ventrally, clothed with 
rough hairs, frons with a small tuft of rough hairs projecting between bases 
of antennae, upper part of face rough, lower part with loosely appressed 
hairs directed from orbit to middle of face. Ocelli and proboscis absent. 
Eye moderate, somewhat ovate. Antenna implanted before the eye, i- in 
female strongly thickened, compressed from beyond base to apex, becoming 
more compressed posteriorly, apex entirely flattened, obtuse , clothed 
with short, appressed scales throughout, giving rise to slight serrulation, 
apex with a pencil of very short hairs, scape rather small, smooth, cylin- 
drical, not thickened, without pecten. Eabial palpus moderate, straight, 
drooping, slender, clothed with loosely appressed short scales throughout, 
terminal segment about 1 / a , pointed, or longer, stout, obtuse, roughish. 
Maxillary palpus small, several-jointed, folded, smooth, appressed to face. 
Posterior tibia with closely appressed hairs slightly projecting beyond 
apex, inner spur of first pair very long ( 3 / 4 ). Fore win S subovate, obtusely 
pointed, lb simple, 2 from beyond 3 / 5 , 3 from before angle, 4, 5, 6 remote, 
tolerably equidistant, 5—6 parallel, 7 and 8 slightly approximated towards 
base, 7 to termen, 8 — 10 separate and equidistant, 11 from towards base, 
