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MICROLEPID OPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
Vinculum erect, dorsally rounded, top triangular. Aedoeagus moderate, 
top sclerotized, with a subapical crochet. Cornuti, a pair of spikes. (Slide 
no. 983 D, holotype.) 
Genital segment moderately sclerotized, tergite oval. Limen, a slender 
rod curved downward at the sides, forming a ring around the ostium, 
surrounded by numerous fine dentations. Colliculum, a moderate plate, 
coiled and compressed dorso-ventrally. Ductus rather short, simple. Bursa 
copulatrix small, simple. (Slide no. 984 D, allotype.) 
Moss Forest Camp, five km northeast of Lake Habbema, 2800 m, 
October 30, 1938 (holotype, male). Moss Forest Camp, 2600 — 2800 m, 
October 9 — November 5, 1938 (allotype, female), October 11 — 31, 1938. 
Six males, one female. 
Lecithocera lutescens spec. nov. (fig. 592) 
22 mm. Head and palpus pale ochreous, median segment of the latter 
suffused with fuscous towards the apex below. Antenna with the scape 
pale ochreous, flagellum pale tawny ringed pale ochreous (apical half 
missing). Thorax light ochreous-tawny with a lilac gloss, shoulder and 
pectus suffused with dark fuscous. Abdomen pale yellowish-ochreous, sides 
suffused with dark fuscous. Legs pale tawny-ochreous, anterior and 
median femora infuscated, anterior tibia blackish-fuscous. Fore wing 
with veins 2 and 3 stalked, 7 to termen, 9 separate; rather broad, elongate- 
sub triangular, costa curved anteriorly and before apex, obtusely pointed, 
termen slightly sinuate, oblique. Light ochreous, slightly partially clouded 
with light brownish, with a few groups of dark fuscous scales; base of the 
costa suffused with blackish-fuscous; discal stigmata small, distinct, 
blackish, first elongate, before 1 / 3 , supramedian, second larger, rounded, 
just beyond 1 / 2 , slightly above the middle; an ill-defined oblique transverse 
dark fuscous suffusion from below the second stigma to 2 / 3 of the dorsum; 
faint cloudy light brownish irroration forming a transverse band halfway 
between the cell and the termen with a group of scattered dark fuscous 
scales below the costa and two ill-defined terminal spots: above and 
below the middle, respectively. Cilia fight ochreous. Hind wing with veins 
3 and 4 stalked; pale golden-ochreous, cilia pale ochreous. 
Dorsal pad with a broad base and short rounded lobes. Valva moderate, 
cucullus not separated, with one long series of small bristles ; ventral edge 
of the valva with an oblique comb of moderate spikes. Vinculum with 
the top moderately rounded. Aedoeagus rpoderate. Cornuti, some three 
irregular large spikes. (Slide no. 992 D, type.) 
Moss Forest Camp, five km northeast of Lake Habbema, 2800 m, 
October 6, 1938. One specimen. 
