MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
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two large projecting tufts below, first pointed, second truncate, each of 
them fuscous, mixed with white along anterior edge; terminal segment 
with the base, the tip and two broad rings, dark fuscous, with two minute 
tufts on the upper edge. Thorax whitish suffused w r ith fuscous along the 
edges, tegula whitish, densely irrorated with fuscous. Abdomen sordid 
pale ochreous. Legs whitish speckled with fuscous, anterior leg blackish 
above except the articulations of the segments, median femur and tibia 
each with two irregular dark fuscous bands, median tarsus with the basal 
segments dark fuscous except their apex. Fore wing with veins 7 and 8 
stalked, 6 separate; sublanceolate, broadest before the middle, costa 
moderately curved, appearing slightly concave beyond the middle, apex 
rather obtuse, termen rounded, considerably oblique. White, irrorated 
with light and dark fuscous, marked with fuscous-blackish. Costa from 
the base to beyond the middle smooth, densely irrorated with fuscous, 
with two rounded dark fuscous dots: at 1 / 2 and 1 / 3 , respectively, and two 
elongate dots beyond the middle, hardly separated by a narrow w hitish 
transverse line; posterior part of the costa from beyond the middle ciliate, 
with some six ill-defined fuscous dots becoming greyish towards the apex, 
penultimate one dark fuscous, larger, connected with a transverse dark 
fuscous patch in the disc beyond the cell, reaching halfway across the wing, 
truncate below; an ill-defined angulate transverse fascia from the first 
costal dot to 1 / 4 of the dorsum; three light ochreous tufts of slightly 
raised scales, edged posteriorly with white, one above the middle of the 
disc beyond base, tw r o in a slightly oblique transverse series at 1 / 3 , the 
lower of these below T the fold; three dorsal spots of blackish irroration, 
first elongate, along the base, second small, round, beyond 1 / 4 , third 
somewhat larger, round, above 2 / 5 ; a subtriangular patch before the 
middle of the disc from below the fold, narrowly connected with the 
second costal dot, broadly with the third one, together with these forming 
a V-shaped fuscous-black mark, dark brownish fuscous above the cell and 
on top ; this top almost connected with a short streak of this colour along 
the fold posteriorly; a faint brownish suffusion between this streak and 
the dorsum; an elongate light tawny-fuscous patch above posterior part 
of the fold from about 3 / 5 of wing to the tornus, above hardly reaching to 
the middle of the disc, the middle of the upper edge abruptly erected in a 
triangular projection reaching to below' the costa, traversed by a fuscous- 
black streak which also forms a narrow upper edge to the elongate patch ; 
a blackish interrupted longitudinal line from beyond this to the termen 
below the apex, traversing a faint subterminal spot of fuscous irroration. 
Cilia sordid whitish-greyish, tinged ochreous towards the tornus, speckled 
with white towards the apex, a cloudy grey submedian band with three 
dark grey bars, first bar apical. Hind wing sordid pale greyish -fuscous 
with a faint bluish opalescense, becoming light fuscous towards the apex 
and the costa. Cilia light fuscous, with pale tips. 
Gnathos abruptly narrowed above the base, slightly dilated towards 
