MICROLEPIDOPTEEA OF NEW GUINEA 
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infuscated. Palpus pale ochreous, median segment thickened, roughish 
below throughout, suffused with fuscous except its apex, less so along 
upper edge, terminal segment slender, under 1, with the extreme tip mixed 
with dark fuscous. Thorax pale ochreous, tinged tawny laterally. Abdomen 
pale ochreous, slightly infuscated. Legs pale ochreous, more or less suffused 
with brow n except below ; median and posterior tibia densely long-haired 
above; posterior tibia outwardly suffused with brown, spurs dark fuscous. 
Fore wing broad-lanceolate, dilated at 1 / 3 , costa moderately curved 
anteriorly, somewhat impressed in middle, straight beyond this, gradually 
curved towards apex, apex pointed, termen slightly rounded, extremely 
oblique. Pale golden-ochreous, evenly suffused with light taw r ny, markings 
suffused, dark fuscous-brown. An ill-defined oblique transverse patch of 
fulvous-brown suffusion from base of costa to below the middle of the 
wing; an ill-defined outwardly oblique subtriangular deep coffee-brown 
spot on costa before the middle, with the top reaching to before the 
centre of the wing ; an elongate dark fuscous blotch in the middle of the 
wing, occupying about second fifth of its length, terminated below by the 
fold, touching the preceding mark; an indefinite coffee-brown suffusion 
occupying the posterior fourth of the costa to the apex, reaching hallway 
across the wing; a moderate longitudinal straight streak of coarse white 
irroration along the middle of the disc from -/ 5 to 4 / 5 , mixed with brown 
anteriorly and marked with two irregular fuscous-black dots: at its middle 
and before its posterior extremity, respectively, the idtimate dot largest, 
elongate ; an ill-defined small pale ochreous spot on 5 / 6 of the costa extending 
over the cilia; a patch of the same colour mixed with tawny in the tornus. 
Cilia pale golden-ochreous, infuscated except along the base, with a 
broad cloudy interrupted subbasal band, apical third of the cilia fuscous, 
costal cilia dark fuscous. Hind wing silvery-ochreo us- white, somewhat 
Genitalia of Gelechiidae. Fig. 554: Aristotelia schistopa spec, nov., male. Fig. 555 
Thiotricha chionochrysa spec, nov., male. 
