MICROLEPIDOPTERA OP NEW GUINEA 
85 
Cosmiosophista trachyopa spec. nov. (figs. 636, 640) 
14 mm. Head and thorax light tawny, the latter slightly mixed with 
brown. Antenna light tawny, ringed with dark fuscous, towards the apex 
becoming whitish, mixed above with blackish scales. Palpus pale tawny 
mixed with brownish, terminal segment with a subbasal, and a subapical, 
brown ring. Abdomen light tawny-fuscous, anal tuft light ochreous. Legs 
pale ochreous-tawny, all tarsi mixed with brownish, except the articulations 
of the segments, median tibia with the basal half brown, an oblique brown 
streak along the apical half, posterior tibia with a cloudy subapical 
browmish suffusion. Fore wing elongate-ovate, costa moderately pro- 
minent at 1 / 3 and 3 / 4 , gently concave in between, apex bluntly pointed, 
Fig. 636: Cosmiosophista trachyopa gen. nov., spec, nov., male, head and wing 
termen rounded, considerably oblique. Rather light tawny, base of the 
costa pale ochreous with a dark fuscous dot; three short ill-defined out- 
wardly oblique pale ochreous streaks from beyond the base to the middle 
of the costa; an elongate-semi ovate fuscous-tawny costal patch from the 
middle to 3 / 4 , terminated posteriorly by a narrow undulate whitish trans- 
verse streak, reaching to the upper edge of the cell well before the angle ; 
basal fourth of the dorsum pale ochreous; an oblique transverse series of 
rounded scale-tufts beyond base of wing from below the costa to the 
dorsum ; an outwardly angulate, rather narrow fascia of brown suffusion 
from beyond 1 j 6 of the costa to before 1 / i of the dorsum, interrupted in the 
fold, above dorsum adjacent to a well-defined round pale ochreous dot; 
strongly raised dark fuscous scale-tufts: two in a vertical series well befoie 
the middle of the wing, upper small, rounded, lower large, elongate, 
neuration. 
