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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
Limnaecia nephelochalca spec. nov. (fig. 624) 
VEtptXtj = cloud, ya't.w'ic, = copper 
$ 12.5 mm. Head, thorax pale fuscous with a golden gloss. Antenna 
whitish-fuscous, ringed above with blackish -fuscous, scape blackish- 
fuscous above. Palpus very pale ochreous-fuscous, median segment 
slightly clouded with grey along the basal half, terminal segment with the 
anterior and posterior edges very narrowly grey. Abdomen sordid tawny- 
fuscous, venter pale oclircous. Legs glossy pale ochreous, tibiae and tarsi 
suffused with fuscous-grey above, pale ringed, posterior tibia with a small 
median, and an apical tuft of fine bristly short scales. Fore wing lanceolate, 
costa gently curved. Golden- whitish with strong golden gloss throughout; 
costal half suffused with pale golden-fuscous, edge of this suffusion 
irregular, undulate; an attenuated streak of fight ochreous-golden suf- 
fusion along the dorsum. Cilia along the costa and around the apex dark 
greyish-fuscous, along the termen ochreous-whitisb, elsewhere pale 
fuscous-grey. Hind wing glossy leaden-fuscous-white, cilia pale fuscous-grey. 
Ovipositor elongate, strong. Ninth ventrite forming two medianly 
narrowed plates, with strong bristles along their caudal edge. Ostium, a 
small cup. (Slide no. 1064 D, type.) 
Mist Camp, 1800 m, January 13, 1939. One specimen. 
Limnaecia nigrispersa spec. nov. (fig. 629) 
<3 22 mm. Head glossy whitish slightly mixed with grey, collar mixed 
with dark grey. Antenna whitish ringed with fuscous-grey, scape dark 
fuscous-grey. Palpus grey. Thorax whitish densely suffused with dark 
grey, apical third blackish, tegula whitish mixed with grey. Abdomen 
ochreous-brown. Legs ochreous-white ; anterior leg suffused with blackish 
except on the articulations of the segments, median knee blackish, tibia 
with two blackish bands, segments of the tarsus with two broad blackish 
bands above; posterior tibia blackish below, with a broad median, and an 
apical greyish band; this tibia with strong bristly projecting scales above 
from the base to 3 / 4 and in an apical whorl, posterior tarsus with two 
broad blackish bands. Fore wing lanceolate. Creamy- white ; partially 
sufFused with pale bronze-grey, irrorated and marked with fuscous-black. 
An inwardly oblique small subbasal streak from below the costa, ending 
on the base of the dorsum, and continued along the basal fourth of the 
dorsal edge: an irregular angulate transverse fascia of the creamy ground 
colour beyond ’/'n interrupted at its upper fourth and in the fold, not 
reaching the margins of the wing, with lower extremity acute; another 
less distinct creamy fascia from 3 / B of the costa to the dorsum beyond the 
middle, interrupted by greyish irroration in the middle; a moderate 
strongly outwards-oblique rather well-defined streak of creamy ground 
colour from the costa beyond to the termen below the apex, with the 
