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purplish-fuscous, becoming whitish towards the tornus, in the apex and 
along the termen with an antemedian and an apical dark fuscous suffused 
fasciae. Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 stalked; thinly scaled, light greyish- 
fuscous with a faint purplish gloss; cilia light golden-fuscous, a paler basal 
line. 
Dorsal pad bilobed. Valva moderately broad, cucullus not separated, 
rounded-truncate, bristles very short, arranged in a ventral group; ventral 
edge of the valva with a long longitudinal comb of bristles. Vinculum 
rounded dorsally, with an elongate-triangular top. Aedoeagus very large, 
narrowed. Cornuti, several moderate crochets and a large irregular sclerite 
with wrinkled surface. (Slide no. 991 D, type.) 
Araucaria Camp, 800 m, March 20, 1939. One specimen. 
Brachmia Hubner, 1818 
Brachmia Hubner, 1818, Verz. bek. Schmett., p. 419. Meyrick, Handb. Brit. 
Lep., p. 605, 1895. Gener. Ins., fasc. 184, p. 248, 1925. Rev. Handb., p. 649, fig., 1928. 
Fletcher, Mem. Agric. Ind., Ent., vol. 11, p. 34, 1929. Gaede, Lepid. Catal., part 79, 
p. 534, 1937; etc. 
Ceratophora Heinemann, 1870, Schmett. Deutschl., vol. 2, part 1, p. 325; etc. 
Cladodes Heinemann, 1870, ibidem, p. 330. 
Eudodacles Snellen, 1889, Tijdsclir. Entom., vol. 32, p. 204. 
Aulacomima Meyrick, 1904, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, vol. 29, p. 395. 
Key to the Papuan species 
1. Fore wing with vein 9 out of 7 ; grey-brownish, darker speckled, no costa; 
markings philochersa Meyrick 
Fore wing with 9 separate ; dark fuscous-grey, a small light ochreous spot beyond 
4 / Q f subsignata spec. nov. 
Brachmia subsignata spec. nov. (fig. 607) 
$ 10 mm. Head, thorax dark 'fuscous-grey. Antenna whitish-ringed 
with dark fuscous-grey, base of the flagellum and scape, blackish (apical 
part of the flagellum broken). Palpus pale ochreous, median segment 
towards apex infuscated along the edges, terminal infuscated throughout, 
upper edge blackish. Abdomen dark greyish-fuscous. Legs pale ochreous, 
anterior leg, tarsi, and spurs, suffused with greyish. Fore wing with 2 and 
3 stalked, 7 and 8 stalked, 9 separate. Dark fuscous-grey mixed with 
whitish-grey, a few scattered white scales below the costa before the apex ; 
posterior part of the wing beyond the cell suffused with dark greyish- 
fuscous, edge indefinite; a small suffused light ochreous spot beyond J / 5 
of the costa. Cilia dark greyish-fuscous, a pale basal line and an indication 
of an antemedian line. Hind wing and cilia fuscous-grey. 
Limen, a shallow cup. Caudal edge of the eighth sternite hairy. (Slide 
no. 985 D, type.) 
