MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
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Differs from Bathraula Meyrick, 1919, in the terminal segment of the 
labial palpus being shorter than the median, in the origin of the veins 
Fig. 637: Bathybalia microsperma gen. nov.,. spec, nov., male, head and wing 
neuration. 
2 and 3 in the fore wing, and of the stalk of the veins 2 and 3 in the hind 
wing: in Bathraula the stalk of 2 and 3 in the hind wing originates from 
towards the base, vein 4 from the angle. 
Bathybalia microsperma spec. nov. (figs. 631 — 635, 637) 
pixQog = small, an&Qpa = seed 
g 17 . 5 — 23 mm. Head white, vertex greyish. Antenna white, faintly 
ringed with greyish, scape greyish. Palpus white, basal segment blackish, 
median segment with the basal half and an interrupted subapical or entire 
apical ring, terminal segment with a subbasal ring and with the tip, 
blackish. Thorax whitish-grey, tegula white. Abdomen bronze-grey; 
venter pale ochreous-greyish. Legs grey, posterior tibia and tarsus, white. 
Fore wing elongate-ovate, costa curved towards extremities, more so 
basally apex subobtuse, termen rounded, considerably oblique. White, 
markings blackish. Base of the costal edge narrowly blackish; a dot on 
the base of the costa, a smaller one below and beyond this; an outwardly 
oblique transverse series of four rounded dots beyond the preceding pan- 
first dot minute, subcostal, second largest, on vein 12, fourth dot just 
below the fold, at about Vs of the wing length; a somewhat less oblique 
series of three dots, first of these irregular, just below Vs of the costa, 
