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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
edge dark fuscous, lower whitish-ochreous, terminal segment over 1, 
slender, acute, ochreous-fuscous, its lower edge, and a minute subapical 
ring, dark fuscous, the extreme tip, and a faint ring well below r the apex, 
pale ochreous. Thorax greyish-lilac, in the female darker (damaged), 
patagium whitish-ochreous anteriorly in the two sexes. Abdomen dark 
fuscous; in the male anal tuft whitish-ochreous; in the female dorsal 
transverse bands of fine brassy bristles; pecten, and venter, whitish- 
ochreous, the former spotted with dark fuscous. Legs ochreous, irregularly 
spotted with dark fuscous, anterior femur dark fuscous towards the base, 
posterior leg whitish-yellowish, a median patch on the femur, a broad 
subapical band and dorsal hair-scales of the tibia except at the apex, dark 
fuscous-purple. Fore wing with veins 8 and 9 out of 7; elongate, little 
dilated in the male, broader, elongate-triangular in the female, costa 
gently curved in the male, almost straight in the female, slightly concave 
in the middle, apex rounded, slightly projecting in the male, termen sinuate, 
oblique in the male, little oblique in the female. Dark fuscous-purple, 
female darker. An ochreous-whitish dentoid well-defined spot on costa 
just beyond middle in the male, almost median in the female, almost 
reaching the middle of the disc, anterior edge straight, oblique, with the 
top just above the lower angle of the cell, narrowly truncate, posterior 
edge inwardly oblique along the upper half, with a moderate blunt pro- 
jection just above the cell: the lower half of the posterior edge straight, 
vertical ; in the male this spot is somewhat produced posteriorly along the 
costal edge, in the female not produced, narrowly mixed with ochreous; 
a small elongate-triangular whitish-ochreous costal spot before the apex. 
Cilia dark fuscous with a purplish gloss. Hind wing with veins 3 and 5 
connate; fuscous with a purplish gloss in the male, dark purplish-fuscous 
in the female, cilia concolorous, with a narrow w r hite basal line. 
Uncus rather long, slightly dilated. Ventrad of its base two moderate, 
subdentate prominences. Valva slender, long, not dilated, moderately 
bristled at the apex and along the posterior 3 / i of the lower edge. Vinculum 
short, rounded. Anellus very large, dilated above, with two slender curved 
arms bristled on the top. Aedoeagus very stout, large. C'ornuti, a sheaf of 
fine long bristles. (Slide no. 955 D, holotype.) 
Ostium strongly modified, an oblique tunnel at the side of an asym- 
metrical subtriangular plate with the top extended into two rising points 
with wrinkled surface, densely scaled. Ductus bursae minutely dentate 
above. Bursa copulatrix moderate. Signum, a hollow T tooth with a denti- 
culate edge. (Slide no. 956 D, allotype.) 
Araucaria Camp, 800 m, March 29, 1939 (holotype, male), March 7, 
1939 (allotype, female). Two specimens. 
