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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OE NEW GUINEA 
black, moderate; first stigma just beyond 1 / 3 , slightly submedian, a little 
elongate, second just before 2 / 3 , median, rounded: a faint spot of ochreous 
suffusion on the costa before the apex, extending over the cilia. Cilia 
brownish-purple along the costa to the apex, glossy pale ochreous mixed 
with fuscous along the termen, with the basal third dull light ochreous, 
not obscured with fuscous. Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 stalked, 5 closely 
approximated; pale greyish-fuscous, cilia glossy pale whitish-fuscous, 
basal third duller, light ochreous. 
Dorsal pad small, with elongate points. Valva moderately broad at 
the base, costa angulate, cucullus narrowed, bristles large, in three rows; 
ventral edge of the valva rounded-prominent, a large, stout spike at 2 / 3 . 
A pointed sclerotized projection at the base of the valva. Vinculum rounded. 
Aedoeagus very stout, narrowed. Cornuti, irregular pointed sclerites. 
(Slide no. 962 D, type.) 
Araucaria Camp, 800 m, March 21, 1939. One specimen. 
Lecithocera capra spec. nov. (fig. 590) 
16 mm. Head and thorax light tawny with a lilac gloss, shoulder dark 
fuscous. Antenna whitish-ochreous, faintly ringed with light fuscous, 
basal 2 / 5 and the scape dark fuscous, tip fuscous. Palpus with the median 
segment reaching above the base of the antenna, much thickened, trian- 
gularly dilated noth scales that are roughly projecting along its lower edge, 
terminal segment over 1 , strongly recurved and projecting over the vertex, 
slender, subacute, base dilated and flattened below by a compressed keel 
along the inner side, becoming very narrow towards the apex ; basal and 
median segments dark greyish-fuscous, terminal segment tawny with a 
pale lilac gloss, base somewhat infuscated. Abdomen pale ochreous tinged 
brighter ochreous dorsally. Legs pale ochreous, anterior and median leg 
strongly irrorated and suffused with dark fuscous, apices ol tarsal segments 
pale ochreous. Fore wing with veins 2 and 3 short-stalked, 8 and 9 out 
of 7, 7 to just below apex; elongate, hardly dilated, costa curved at the 
base and before the apex, straight in the middle, apex subobtuse, termen 
slightly sinuate, oblique. Rather pale oclireous-tawny, irrorated and 
suffused with fuscous. An ill-defined, darker fuscous, lilac-tinged suffusion 
occupying less than the costal half of the wing except the extreme costal 
edge and posteriorly reaching as far as vein 10; an ill-defined narrow 
streak of the same colour along the closing vein to the dorsum before the 
tornus becoming paler below; posterior area beyond this streak suffused 
with fuscous, which suffusion is lighter than that below the costa; discal 
stigmata dark fuscous tinged lilac; first elongate, supramedian, at 1 / 3 , 
second rounded, obscured by the above mentioned transverse streak, 
just above middle before 2 / s . Cilia pale golden ochreous with an ante- 
median and a subapical fuscous line. Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 stalked ; 
