MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
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with veins 3 and 4 stalked; in the male thinly scaled anteriorly, the cell 
covered with moderate closely appressed pale ochreous hairs directed 
downward , in the female normal; whitish-ochreous with a golden gloss, 
moderately suffused with light fuscous posteriorly, this suffusion darkest 
in the apex and along the termen. Cilia pale ochreous, with a faint brighter 
ochreous subbasal shade, and an interrupted subapical fuscous fascia. 
Dorsal pad broadly elongate. Valva moderately broad, costa angulate 
at the base, concave in the middle; cucullus not separated, slightly 
narrowed, truncate, bristles stout, in two irregular rows ; ventral edge with 
a moderate bristled projection at 2 / 3 , and a larger bristled tumescense 
opposite this. Vinculum with a rounded top. Aedoeagus large, stout, 
dilated at the base. Cornuti, a conical plate, densely denticulate above. 
(Slide no. 976 D, holotype.) 
Limen, a transverse weak plate with the upper edge slightly thickened, 
the extremities acute, rising. Signum rounded. (Slide no. 977 D, allotype.) 
Moss Forest Camp, five km northeast of Lake Habbema, 2800 m, 
October 13, 1938 (holotype, male), October 16, 1938 (allotype, female). 
One male, two females. 
Lecithocera rhinoceros spec. nov. (fig. 591) 
q 19 mm. Head and thorax pale ochreous, slightly mixed with light 
fuscous. Antenna with the scape pale ochreous with a bronze gloss, 
flagellum dark bronze, its subapical ninth ochreous-whitish, ringed with 
bronze, its apical ninth dark fuscous-bronze, tip whitish. Palpus modi- 
fied, extremely large, flattened laterally, and much dilated : basal segment 
elongate, smooth, median segment strongly recurved, reaching to above 
the vertex, much dilated by smoothly appressed hairs, roughly projecting 
along lower, and apical edges, terminal segment 1, strongly dilated, 
appearing conical in lateral aspect, subobtuse, curved caudad, and almost 
reaching tips of the tegulae; purplish-fuscous, the lower edge of the basal 
segment, and the basal 2 / 3 of that of median segment suffused with light 
ochreous, apex of the terminal segment ochreous-whitish. Abdomen sordid 
pale ochreous, anal tuft ochreous. Legs light ochreous, infuscated, anterior 
and median tarsi ochreous-ringed, posterior tarsus pale ochreous. Fore 
wing with veins 2 and 3 short-stalked, 4 and 5 connate, 8 and 9 out of 7, 
7 to termen; elongate, broadest at 3 / 4 , costa curved towards extremities, 
more so anteriorly, almost straight in middle, apex pointed, termen 
sinuate, moderately oblique. Light tawny -fuscous, suffused along the 
costa and on posterior 2 / 5 , with brownish-purple; extreme edge of the 
basal third of the costa light tawny -fuscous ; an ill -defined moderate 
subcostal attenuated streak of dark purplish-grey suffusion from the base 
to the middle; edge of the posterior purplish area very faint from the 
middle of the costa to 2 / 3 of the dorsum ; discal stigmata distinct, fuscous- 
