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MICROLEPID OPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
Nemophora profusella (Walker, 1866) (fig. 860) 
Nemotois profusella Walker, 1866, List Lep. Het. Brit. Mus., vol. 28, p. 1816. 
Meyrick, Gener. Ins., fasc. 133, p. 6, 1912. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., vol. 87, p. 528, 
1938. 
Nemophora profusella, Dtjrrant, Lep. B. O. U. & Woll. Exp., p. 162, 1915. 
Distribution: Netherlands New Guinea, Canoe Camp; British New 
Guinea, Papua, Kokoda, 1200 feet. 
Uneus bluntly pointed. Socius moderate, rounded. Valva extending 
beyond top of uncus, bluntly pointed, cucullus gently curved outwards, 
sacculus with a rounded projection at base and a short process beyond 
this. Anellus erect-ovate. Aedoeagus finely spinose towards end, with a 
short, separate, and two approximated, small spikes. (Slide no. 994 D.) 
Araucaria Camp, 800 m, March 18, 1939. One male. 
Mr. J. D. Bradley kindly sent us fine photographs of the genitalia of 
the type specimen (a male) in the British Museum which enabled us to 
identify the specimen with certainty. 
Nemophora chrysorrhabda spec. nov. (fig. 859) 
y/maoQ = gold, odpSoq = a bar 
$ 12 mm. Head and thorax black. Antenna bronze, dark-ringed, scape 
swollen, metallic-grey. Palpus greyish, black-haired. Abdomen greyish- 
black or blackish-bronze. Legs purple-bronze, tarsi broadly whitish-ringed. 
Fore wing ovate-subtriangular, strongly dilated, broadest beyond middle; 
costa hardly curved anteriorly, moderately and gradually curved along 
posterior fourth, apex subobtuse, termen long, rounded, very oblique, 
tornus angulate. Brightly shining metallic purple -violet, mixed with 
golden scales. Basal patch rather dull, yellow, occupying less than 1 / 3 of 
wing, edged with a rather irregular dull purplish-black line from 1 / 3 of 
costa to about 2 / 5 of dorsum (inwardly oblique), with two shining pale 
greenish-golden metallic longitudinal streaks: upper one along costa, 
narrowly edged with blackish above and beneath, to before posterior 
margin of basal patch, lower one just above fold, not edged, pointed, 
almost reaching that margin; an almost vertical transverse rather dull, 
yellow fascia from beyond middle of costa to dorsum before tornus, slightly 
dilated on costa, sometimes originating from middle of wing towards costa; 
with second fourth somewhat curved outward, edged above and below 
this curve straight; this fascia edged with dull purplish-black : anterior 
edge broad, narrowed towards dorsum, posterior linear, abruptly dilated 
along costal fifth; an irrorated small spot of purplish-black scales before 
middle of termen. Cilia fuscous-purple, shining. Hind wing semipellucent, 
thinly scaled: pale fuscous-greyish with purplish-golden gloss, becoming 
less transparent, fuscous-purplish towards apex. Cilia pale purple-fuscous. 
