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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
the cel], border of the first colour ill-defined, apparently strongly concave. 
Base of costa suffused with dark purple; stigmata small, dull blackish, 
the first stigma considerably elongate, the second transverse, with 
longitudinally extended base. Cilia sordid pale ochreous-fuscous with 
bronze gloss, a pale-ochreous basal line and a suffused fuscous antemedian 
band. Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 distant, 5 approximated; thinly 
scaled, pale ochreous suffused with light fuscous with a faint purplish 
gloss; cilia sordid whitish-ochreous with a smoky antemedian suffused 
band. 
Tegumen long, rather narrow. Dorsal pad almost T-shaped. Valva with 
a large projection at base of costa, cucullus narrow, three rows of small 
bristles. Ventral edge of valva simple. Acdoeagus long, rather slender. 
Cornutus, a moderate, possibly scobinate rod. (Slides no. 952 D, holotype, 
no. 953 D, paratype.) 
Eighth sternite, an erect-triangular sclerotized plate. Ostium simple. 
(Slides no. 971 D, allotype, no. 972 D, paratype.) 
Top Camp, 2100 m, January 30, 1939. Lower Mist Camp, 1400 — 1600 m, 
January 6, 1939 (holotype, male), January 8 — 9, 1939. Mist Camp, 1800 m, 
January 7, 1939. Sigi Camp, 1500 m, February 19, 1939 (allotype, female). 
Two males, four females. 
Lecithocera abrasa spec. nov. (figs. 588, 603) 
O 24 mm, $ 25 mm. Head and antenna whitish-ochreous, face infuscated, 
apex of the antenna in the male and the tip in the female blackish. Palpus 
in the male with the median segment strongly dilated, roughish along the 
lower edge, with an obtuse projecting tuft at the apex beneath, dark 
fuscous, apex whitish-ochreous; terminal segment over 1, curved back- 
ward, dilated, flattened laterally, rather smooth, broadest below the 
middle, pointed, whitish-ochreous slightly irrorated with pale tawny; in 
the female normal, pale ochreous, the median segment strongly suffused 
with dark fuscous, less so towards the upper edge and the apex. Thorax 
light fuscous with longitudinal whitish-ochreous median and lateral 
stripes, a spot anteriorly and the tegida, light fuscous-purple. Abdomen 
light ochreous, venter, except medianly, suffused with fuscous-blackish. 
Legs pale fuscous, femora infuscated, anterior leg dark fuscous above 
except the articulations of the segments. Fore wing with veins 2 and 3 
stalked, 8 and 9 out of 7, 7 to the termen ; elongate, little dilated, costa 
curved towards extremities, straight in the middle, apex subobtuse, 
slightly produced, termen sinuate, moderately oblique. Deep brownish- 
purple, all veins narrowly lined with whitish-ochreous; costa narrowly 
whitish-ochreous, base of the costa, apex and termen suffused with dark 
fuscous-purple; discal stigmata indefinite. Cilia pale ochreous, a broad 
antemedian and an apical interrupted purplish-fuscous shade. Hind wing 
