MICROLEPIDOPTERA OP NEW GUINEA 
93 
Chironeura chrysocyma spec. nov. (figs. 638, 649, 654) 
Xgvcrog — gold, xv/j,a = wave 
? 30 cm. Head white. Antenna light brownish. Palpus light brownish 
moderately mixed with white, with a pale lilac gloss. Thorax ochreous- 
whitish with a pale bluish-lilac gloss. Abdomen ochreous-whitish, with 
broad bronze-orange bands of very fine appressed bristles across segments 
2—6. Legs, pecten and venter white. Fore wing elongate-subtruncate, 
narrow, moderately and gradually dilated. Fulvous-lilac, with a bright 
fight bluish-lilac shine, darker towards the costa, along basal x / 4 of the 
dorsum, in middle of the disc and towards the terminal patch; a large 
terminal patch occupying less than l / 5 of the wing, bright yellow, towards 
costa slightly suffused with pink, edge well-defined, from the costa before 
the apex to the dorsum before the tornus: twice deeply sinuate, concave 
in the middle, rounded-prominent above and beneath, above dorsum 
vertical; a subterminal row of small rather irregular transverse marks 
between the veins, opposite upper half of the termen partially interrupted 
and tending to be interconnected, towards tornus becoming larger and 
separate. Cilia bright yellow, along the costa and above the apex suffused 
with fuscous. Hind wing pale yellowish- white, glossy, cilia white. 
Seventh sternite with its caudal edge emarginate. Ostium not modified. 
Ductus bursae simple. Bursa copulatrix elongate. Signum, a moderate 
band, with a narrow median keel. (Slide no. 935 D, type.) 
Rattan Camp, 1200 m, February-March, 1939. One specimen. An 
elegant species of a Gelechiid appearance, in the colouring and the markings 
much resembling a Lecithocera. 
Pansepta Meyrick, 1915 (fig. 639) 
Pansepta Meyrick, 1915, Exot. Microl., vol. 1, 377. Fletcher, Mem. Agric. 
Ind., Ent., vol. 11, p. 161, 1929. 
We slightly extend the definition of this genus and amend it as follows. 
Palpus with terminal segment about 1 / 2 of median. Fore wing with vein lb 
furcate, 2 from 4 / 5 , 3 from angle, 4 remote from 3, short-stalked or connate 
with 5 or closely approximated at base to 5, closing vein between 3 and 4 
inwardly oblique, between 5 and 6 weak, the cell giving the impression of 
being open, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to termen, 8 to costa, 9 out of /, connate 
with stalk of 7 and 8 or closely approximated. Hind wing with 3 and 4 
short-stalked, 5 parallel, 6 and 7 closely approximated, connate or short- 
stalked. 
This genus, which is confined to New Guinea and the Bismarck Islands, 
can be easily recognized by the characteristic neuration of fore wing and 
by moderate slender palpi. 
