MICROLEPIDOPTERA OP NEW GUINEA 
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Ectropoceros acrotoma spec. nov. (figs. 855, 856, 857) 
$ 12 mm. Head purple-black, face with lower half entirely, white, 
upper half white in middle. Labial and maxillary palpi white. Antenna 
rather dull purple-black, extreme tip white. Thorax blackish-purple. 
Abdomen and legs fuscous-black, anterior leg paler. Fore wing subovate, 
Genitalia of Ectropoceros gen. nov. Fig. 856: acrotoma spec. nov. female. Fig. 857: 
idem , limen, strongly magnified. Fig. 858: leucosphena spec, nov., limen. 
broadest in middle, costa curved, more so anteriorly, apex obtusely 
pointed, termen long, rounded, oblique. Bronze-black, densely suffused 
with dull black. Somewhat less than the basal half shining violet, edge of 
this colour well-defined, straight, vertical; a moderate shining yellowish- 
white transverse fascia at 1 / 4 , tolerably straight, hardly outward s-oblique, 
edged on both sides with black; a large elongate-ovate shining violet patch 
extending from dorsum before tornus to above middle of termen, in 
middle almost reaching halfway across wing; posterior extremity of this 
patch extended into a strongly curved, outwardly convex transverse 
