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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
Acleracra pancarphalea spec. nov. (figs. 613, 618) 
nav — entirely, xagipaMoG — dry 
o 16 mm. Head pale ochreous-yellow, face shining greyish mixed with 
yellowish-white. Antenna dark fuscous ringed with white, scape pale 
yellowish towards the base. Palpus fuscous, median segment tinged 
ochreous. Thorax pale ochreous-yellow. Abdomen fuscous. Legs fuscous, 
tarsi somewhat pale-ringed, posterior tibia whitish-yellow, with a faint 
postmedian, and an apical, fuscous band, tarsus pale fuscous-yellowish, 
segments with fuscous apical bands. Fore wing lanceolate, strongly 
narrowed at the base, costa gently curved, apex pointed, termen in- 
definite, dorsum strongly prominent and rounded beyond the base. Pale 
glossy ochreous-whitish, upper half as far as the fold from the base to the 
apex suffused with very pale tawny, dorsal area as far as the fold suffused 
with pale ochreous-yellow. Basal third of the costal edge narrowly dark 
fuscous. Cilia along the costa and around the apex very pale golden-tawny, 
pale fuscous elsewhere. Hind wing pale fuscous-grey, glossy, towards the 
apex becoming very pale tawny. Cilia very pale fuscous, around the apex 
faintly tinged pale golden-tawny. 
Fig. 613 : Acleracra pancarphalea gen. nov., spec, nov., male, head and wing neuration. 
Tegumen long. Uncus erect-triangular, long-bristled at the sides. 
Gnathos porrect, top slightly truncate, denticulate above. Valva without 
a basal projection, with the costa sinuate, cucullus curved, bristly, 
sacculus distinctly separate, short (under x / 2 ), weakly bristled. Anellus 
small, anellus lobes erect-ovate, with a few apical bristles. Aedoeagus 
huge, cylindrical. Cornutus, a blunt spike. (Slide no. 1078 D, type.) 
Lake Habbema, 3250 — 3300 m, July 30, 1938. One specimen. Male 
genitalia Gelechioid, also with some likeness of the Xyloryctid type. 
