MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
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fuscous, apex dark fuscous. Palpus pale ochreous, terminal segment 
infuscated along the basal a / 3 . Thorax (rubbed) pale ochreous suffused 
with dark fuscous anteriorly. Abdomen light brownisli-ochreous. Legs pale 
glossy yellow, anterior and median tibiae with an antemedian and a 
subapical broad blackish-fuscous band, posterior tibia with an antemedian 
and a median small tuft of raised bristly dark fuscous scalds above, all 
tarsi with two broad blackish-fuscous bands. Fore wing lanceolate, nar- 
rowed at the base, costa gently curved. Pale golden. Base of the costa 
suffused with blackish-fuscous; pale golden-yellow patches: an inwardly 
oblique fasciate patch at l j A of the dorsum; a longitudinal patch above 
the middle of the dorsum between the fold and vein lb, and an erect- 
subtriangular one on the dorsum beyond 3 / 5 of the wing; a golden-purple- 
violet suffusion extending along the dorsum below the median yellow spot, 
separating this from the ultimate spot and edging that latter spot, except 
below. Cilia pale ochreous. Hind wing fuscous-whitish with golden gloss. 
Eighth ventrite with a pair of strong bristles at each side. Ostium, a 
short funnel-shaped cup, ventral wall slightly sclerotized, rim concave. 
Ductus bursae simple. Bursa copulatrix simple, elongate, with a long 
appendix below (in which fits the long colluin of the spermatophore, folded 
in the middle). Slide no. 1099 D, type. 
Moss Forest Camp, 2800 m, five km northeast of the Lake Habbema, 
October 3), 1938. One specimen. 
Limnaecia bilineata spec. nov. (figs. 626, 630) 
^ (j> io 10.6 mm. Head, palpus, antenna ochreous-whitish, glossy, 
Thorax deep yellow, narrowly edged with ochreous-whitish. Abdomen 
ochreous-whitish. Legs light golden-ochreous, all tibiae and tarsi with 
two fuscous bands. Fore wing narrowly lanceolate, costa gently curved. 
Golden-ochreous-whitish, dorsal two thirds of the wing as far as the 
tornus, with an attenuated yellow suffusion ; a faint streak of pale fuscous 
suffusion along the dorsum to the middle of the wing (sometimes xery ill- 
defined), posterior half extended upwards, exceeding the fold and merging 
in a moderate light fuscous longitudinal streak just above the fold from 
i/ 3 to the tornus; a second such streak, very narrow, above and parallel to 
the first, attenuated before the apex of the wing and not reaching this; a 
narrow suffused dark fuscous streak along the base of the costa. Cilia 
ochreous-whitish. Hind wing ochreous- white with a silvery gloss, cilia 
pale fuscous-ochreous. 
Tegumen erect. Uncus, a strong erect process. Socii possibly represented 
by a transverse-trapezoid plate at the base of the uncus with two strong 
bristles at each side. Valva separated in a dorsal elongate cucullus, spai scij 
bristled, and in a broad ventral sacculus, both tightly connected with the 
base of tegumen (cardinate). Vinculum small, triangular, pointed. 
