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MICROLEPID OPTERA OE NEW GUINEA 
Lecithocera perspicua spec. nov. (fig. 604) 
o 14 mm. Head, thorax and abdomen light ochreous, the latter densely 
long-haired, shoulder blackish. Antenna light ochreous, faintly fuscous- 
ringed, slightly serrulate. Palpus with the median segment blackish, 
gradually dilated with scales, roughish below and towards the apex; 
terminal segment light ochreous, slender, flattened laterally, with a 
shallow longitudinal furrow along the inner side, subacute. Legs light 
ochreous, knee and tarsus dark fuscous, the latter ringed with light 
ochreous, anterior leg entirely rather infuscated (posterior legs mi ssing). 
Fore wing with veins 2 and 3 stalked, almost connate, 7 and 8 stalked, 9 
separate; elongate, dilated, costa curved anteriorly, less so before the 
apex, apex rather obtuse, termen faintly concave above, rounded beneath, 
oblique. Light golden-ochreous, sparsely speckled below the costa and 
densely irrorated and suffused beyond the cell, with light tawny-fuscous. 
A triangular fuscous-blackish dot on the base of the costa, an elongate 
suffused dark purplish-fuscous spot on the costa beyond 2 / 3 , with its lower 
edge slightly extended anteriorly as a transverse suffused streak between 
veins 10 and 11, hardly reaching the cell; an elongate patch of dense light 
tawny irroration along the dorsum from about 1 / 6 to 2 / 3 slightly reaching 
above the lower edge of cell, narrowed anteriorly and beginning with an 
elongate suffused fuscous spot on the dorsum; merging posteriorly in a 
dark purplish-fuscous wedge-shaped suffused oblique patch, with top on 
2 / 3 of the dorsum, crowned with the transverse blackish second discal 
stigma, extended below the cell anteriorly to before the middle of wing; 
posterior edge of this patch rather well-defined, outwardly oblique ; first 
discal stigma conspicuous, fuscous-blackish, semiovate, with the posterior 
edge excavate. Cilia light golden-ochreous with a faint fuscous antemedian 
shade. Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 short-stalked, 5 absent; whitish- 
ochreous, posterior half suffused with fight ochreous-tawny, cilia pale 
ochreous. 
Dorsal pad cordiform. Valva broad at base, cucullus narrower, rounded, 
bristles in two short series; ventral edge of valva projecting, with a 
bristled knob, a longitudinal and a larger transverse comb of spikes with 
a long sheaf of spines arising between these. Vinculum elongate, angulate 
dorsally, top rounded, triangular. Aedoeagus large, narrowed. Cornuti, a 
long series of spikes becoming smaller above, and one long spine. (Slide 
no. 990 D, type.) 
Mist Camp, 1800 m, January 9, 1939. One specimen. 
Lecithocera sextacta spec. nov. (fig. 605) 
cj 14 mm. Head and thorax pale golden ochreous-yellowish, shoulder 
suffused with fuscous. Antenna pale yellowish-ochreous, anterior half 
ringed with brownish, rings becoming gradually fainter posteriorly. 
