MICROLEPIDOPTERA OE NEW GUINEA 
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Lecithocera baryoma spec. nov. (fig. 589) 
fiaovc; = heavy, <L/iog = shoulder 
$ 15 mm. Head and antenna light ochreous. (Antenna missing.) Palpus 
light ochreous (terminal segment missing). Thorax light ochreous suffused 
with fuscous, shoulder suffused with dark fuscous. Abdomen light golden- 
oehreous, sides fuscous. Legs light ochreous, more or less infuscated, knees 
fuscous, tarsi fuscous ringed with ochreous. Fore wing with veins 2 and 
3 stalked, 7 and 8 stalked; elongate, dilated, costa rather curved at the 
base, gently curved beyond the base, faintly concave in the middle, apex 
subobtuse, termen straight above, rounded beneath, oblique. Bright 
ochreous with a purplish gloss; base of the costa suffused with blackish- 
fuscous; a fuscous-purple irroration becoming less dense posteriorly and 
extending over the posterior part of the wing, with the anterior edge ill- 
defined, running approximately from about 1 / 5 of the dorsum to the upper 
angle of the cell, thence to about 3 / 5 of the costa; discal stigmata rather 
ill-defined, first formed by a small dark irroration beyond 1 / 3 somewhat 
above the middle; second, a larger transverse cloudy dark fuscous spot 
beyond 3 / 5 . Cilia light golden ochreous becoming paler towards the tornus, 
more so towards the tips. Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 coincident; golden 
whitish-ochreous, cilia light golden-ochreous. 
Dorsal pad elongate-subovate. Valva broad, bent in the middle, cucullus 
somewhat narrower, bristles in a small apical patch; ventral edge rounded- 
prominent, a very oblique moderate comb of spikes. Vinculum erect, top 
pointed. Aedoeagus rather stout, curved, pointed. Cornuti, a pair of 
pointed stout spikes. (Slide no. 982 D, type.) 
Mist Camp, 1800 m, January 9, 1939. One specimen. 
Lecithocera rhabdostoma spec. nov. (fig. 606) 
odfldoq = rod, or 6 /mi = mouth 
13 mm. Head and thorax sordid ochreous-whitish. Antenna sordid 
ochreous-whitish, in-orated with pale fuscous, so as to form faint rings, 
apex grey. Palpus sordid ochreous-whitish, median segment dilated, 
lower edge and a large subapical spot not reaching the upper edge, dark 
grey. Abdomen whitish, suffused with tawny. Legs pale ochreous, anterior 
and median legs infuscated. Fore wing with veins 2 and 3 stalked, 4 
separate, 8 and 9 out of 7, 7 to termen; elongate-subovate, costa rather 
curved anteriorly, little so before the apex, apex pointed, termen sinuate, 
oblique. Sordid ochreous-whitish, moderately irrorated with fuscous; 
discal stigmata rather large, somewhat irregular, greyish-fuscous, first 
ovate, at 1 / 3 , supramedian, second hardly larger, rounded, before 1 / 3 , 
median. Cilia pale ochreous, apical half suffused with grey except towards 
the tornus. Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 stalked, 5 curved, out of the 
