MICROLEPIDOPTERA OE NEW GUINEA 
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ochreous, barred with fuscous, a broad purplish-fuscous bar opposite the 
apex. Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 stalked; glossy pale ochreous-greyish, 
cilia glossy pale ochreous, becoming whitish -ochreous towards their tips. 
Limen, a weak rather broad transverse band with finely sculptured 
surface. Signum elongate. (Slide no. 980 I), type.) 
Mist Camp, 1800 m, January 4, 1939. One specimen. 
Lecithocera hemitoma spec. nov. (figs. 597, 601) 
ifu = half, ro/j,rj = cut 
g 18.5 — 22 mm, $ 21 mm. Head orange-ochreous. Antenna pale yellow 
with dark fuscous rings, towards the apex infuscated. Palpus in the male 
with the median segment triangularly dilated with roughish scales 
projecting in a tuft at the apex beneath, less dilated in the female, terminal 
segment in the male over 1, recurved at the base, flattened laterally, with 
a short fringe of scales posteriorly except towards the base, apex subacute, 
terminal segment in the female normal, slender, acute. Orange-ochreous, 
median segment suffused with dark fuscous except towards the apex, in 
the female the tip of the terminal segment dark fuscous. Thorax deep 
orange-ochreous, shoulder and basal half of the tegula suffused with 
purplish-brown, less so in the female. Abdomen pale-ochreous, anal tuft 
in the male tinged brownish. Legs pale ochreous, anterior leg except the 
tarsus blackish-fuscous, median more or less infuscated, brighter ochreous, 
anterior and median tarsus pale ochreous, dark-ringed. Fore wing with 
veins 2 and 3 stalked, 4 connate, 7 and 8 stalked; 7 to termen, 9 approxi- 
mated; elongate, dilated, costa moderately sinuate, apex subobtuse, 
termen gently rounded in the male, almost straight in the female, oblique. 
Orange-ochreous, with a more or less distinct lilac gloss, in the male 
posterior half irrorated with lilac-brown, more so towards the costa and 
beyond the cell, sometimes this irroration much reduced; in the female 
more regularly irrorated throughout with light brownish; anterior half 
of the costa with a suffused broad blackish-lilac or greyish-lilac streak, 
sometimes this is little developed; discal stigmata rather large, irregular, 
formed by a black irroration: first elongate, just before x / 3 , supramedian; 
second larger, rounded, well beyond 3 / 5 , just above middle, connected 
with tornus by an oblique curved streak of black irroration becoming less 
dense and somewhat broader below, terminated anteriorly by the course 
of vein 2. Cilia light ochreous slightly mixed with brownish, more so in the 
tornus. Hind wing with vein 5 from angle, 3 and 4 out of 5; whitish- 
ochreous, posterior third tinged pale orange-ochreous, cilia pale orange- 
ochreous. 
Dorsal pad rounded-cordiform. Valva broad at the base, curved, ventral 
edge angularly projecting with a long transverse comb of strong bristles; 
cucullus as broad as the half of the valva, ventral bristles in one row. 
