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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
the apex, apex acute. Basal projection of the sacculus broad, short. 
Aedoeagus with the basal two-thirds bulbate. (Slide no. 960 D, holotype.) 
Ostium narrow, supported by an invert-trapezoid plate with retinate 
surface. Ductus bursae simple. Bursa copulatrix moderate. Signum, a 
funnel-shaped irregular sclerite. (Slide no. 961 D, allotype.) 
Mist Camp, 1800 m, January 9, 1939 (holotype, male), January 17, 
1939 (allotype, female), January 11, 1939. Top Camp, 2100 m, January 
25, 1939. Three males, one female. 
Hypatima artochroma spec. nov. (fig. 558) 
dr/TOQ = bread, /ncu/za = colour 
$ 22 mm. Head sordid white, irrorated with pale fuscous. Antenna 
with scape whitish, ringed with pale fuscous, flagellum fuscous, finely 
ringed with white, the apical fifth dark fuscous, with five distinct white 
rings. Palpus whitish, basal segment fuscous, median segment with a 
basal and a subapical dark fuscous bands, each corresponding with a large 
projecting fulvous truncate tuft below, terminal segment with the apex, 
a narrow basal, and two median rings, blackish-fuscous, two minute tufts 
on the upper edge. Thorax sordid whitish irrorated with pale fuscous, 
posterior half except apex suffused with light fuscous. Abdomen sordid 
pale greyish-ochreous. Legs sordid ochreous-whitish, anterior leg blackish 
above, articulations of the tarsal segments white, median tibia with two 
narrow median bands above, median tarsus with the basal half of the 
segments 1 — 3 dark fuscous, posterior tarsus pale fuscous, whitish-ringed. 
Fore wing with veins 7 and 8 stalked, vein 6 free; elongate-ovate, hardly 
dilated, broadest in the middle; costa moderately curved towards the base, 
hardly curved posteriorly, apex very obtusely pointed, termen rounded, 
oblique. Lilac-whitish, costal edge whitish, densely irrorated with fuscous, 
marked with black. Extreme base of the costal edge narrowly dark 
fuscous, somewhat more than the basal half of the costa smooth, with 
four dark fuscous dots; first dot before 1 / 6 , second dot large, at 1 / 4 , con- 
nected by a slightly inwards-oblique irregular fuscous streak with a dark 
fuscous oblique dash above 1 / 3 of dorsum, and almost confluent with a 
moderate invert-subtrapezoid fuscous patch at 2 / e of the disc; this patch 
irregularly edged with black anteriorly and posteriori}', with the upper 
posterior edge obliquely extended; the third and fourth costal dots 
elongate, dark fuscous, separated by a whitish transverse line; less than 
the posterior half of the costa ciliate; with a small pure white postmedian 
spot, beyond this with four somewhat suffused fuscous dots, first dot small, 
other equal and equidistant, last dot well before the apex; a moderate 
dark fuscous streak along the middle of the dorsum ; a large oblique patch 
of light fuscous suffusion irregularly irrorated and strigulated with darker 
fuscous, extending from the posterior half of the dorsum towards 3 / 4 of 
