MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
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Fore wing with veins 3 and 4 connate or stalked 9 
Fore wing with veins 3 and 4 separate 10 
Labial palpns very long Athrypsiastis Meyrick 
Labial palpus moderate Parcdecta Turner (part) 
Fore wing with vein 4 from angle, 3 from 4 / 5 , 2 from beyond middle 
Capnolocha Meyrick 
Fore wing with vein 3 from angle H 
Posterior tibia smooth CUicitis Meyrick 
Posterior tibia rough-haired above 
Labial palpus long, median segment rather thickened with appressed scales, 
reaching to base of antenna Niphorycta Meyrick 
Labial palpus moderate, median segment slender, not reaching base of antenna 
Paralecta Turner (part) 
Fore wing with veins 4 and 5 connate or stalked 
Fore wing with veins 4 and 5 separate 1® 
Fore wing with veins 4 and 5 connate from angle Cryptophasa Me Leay (part) 
Fore wing with vein 3 from angle, 4 and 5 connate or stalked, from closing vein 
above angle . 
Hind wing with vein 5 weak, 2 from 2 / 3 of lower etl f? e of cel1 
Acompsogma Meyrick 
Hind wing with vein 5 normal, 2 from beyond 2 / 3 of cell Paralecta Turner (part) 
Fore wing with veins S and 4 out of 2 from angle 17 
Fore wing with veins 3 and 4 separate from 2 16 
Palpus with median segment smooth Chiruneura gen. nov. 
Palpus with median segment rough -scaled above and beneath 
Clepsigenes Meyrick 
Posterior tibia and tarsus with rows of thorny bristles below 
Cryptophasa Me Leay (part) 
Posterior tibia, and tarsus without thorny bristles . . . . 19 
Fore wing with vein 7 to apex or costa 20 
Fore wing with vein 7 to termen 22 
Palpus with terminal segment half of median or less. . . Arignota Turner 
Palpus with terminal segment longer than half of median 21 
Fore wing with costa rough -scaled anteriorly; median segment of palpus with 
rather long rough scales beneath Protrachyntis Meyrick 
Fore wing with costa not rough; median segment of palpus somewhat thickened 
terminally, not rough beneath Scieropepla Meyrick 
Labial palpus moderate Paralecta Furner (part) 
Labial palpus long ""j 
Anterior tarsus in male as long as tibia, dilated with dense rough scales; labial 
palpus with terminal segment rather stout .... Xylodriadella Fletcher 
A nterior tarsus in male much longer than tibia, slender; labial palpus with 
terminal segment slender Xylorycta Meyrick 
„ Chironeura gen. nov. (fig. 638) 
yao = hand, vsvqov = vein 
Head with long, appressed scales, side tufts spreading. Ocellus posterior. 
Proboscis developed, short-scaled. Antenna 4 / 5 , in the female serrulate, 
minutely ciliate, scape elongate, smooth-scaled. Labial palpus very long, 
median segment by far exceeding the base of the antenna, thickened with 
