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MICROLEPID OPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
Pansepta splendens spec. nov. (figs. 639, 662) 
o 35 mm. Head, thorax and abdomen glossy-white, faintly touched 
with yellowish, 2 — 6 abdominal tergites with broad bands of orange- 
coppery fine bristles, mixed with white scales, posterior edges of the 
tergites white, becoming broader on the preanal segments. Palpus sordid 
pale fuscous. Legs white, anterior femur and tibia pale fuscous. Fore 
wing with veins 4 and 5 connate, elongate, little dilated, costa curved 
towards the extremities, straight in the middle, apex rather obtuse, 
termen gently rounded, hardly oblique. Shining snow-white; edge of the 
costa narrowly suffused with pale lilac-grey, becoming pale sordid- 
ochreous posteriorly, disappearing towards the apex; dorsum very faintly 
suffused with pale yellowish-ochreous, which colour formes a hardly 
perceptible marginal line posteriorly along the dorsum, the tornus, and 
the termen to the apex. Cilia glossy snow-white. Hind wing and cilia 
glossy white, less shining and slightly tinged greyish. 
Uncus with slightly dilated blunt top. Valva broad, with its apical 
third curved; sacculus under 1 / 2 , broad, upper edge bluntly projecting in 
the middle, harpe absent. Vinculum broad. Anellus broad, over 1 / 2 . 
Aedoeagus gradually dilated towards the extremities, moderately long. 
(Slide no. 879 I), type. ) 
Iebele Camqr, 2250 m, November 27, 1938. One specimen. Nearest to 
P. hierophanes Meykick. 
Pansepta languescens spec. nov. (figs. 647, 648) 
cj, $ 32 mm. Head white, laterally and on vertex isabel-colour. Antenna 
white, basal fifth isabel. Palpus pale fuscous, median segment slightly 
suffused with pale brownish. Thorax and abdomen isabel, former becoming 
white towards the apex. Legs white, anterior femur, tibia and tarsus 
infuscated, pale-ringed. Fore wing with veins 4 and 5 approximated, vein 
9 separate, approximated to stalk of 7 and 8 ; elongate, moderately dilated, 
costa curved, more so along its posterior fifth, apex angular, pointed, 
termen sinuate, moderately oblique. Glossy white, but not shining, anterior 
3 / 4 less glossy, faintly tinged isabel, dorsum below the fold suffused with 
rosy-isabel, base of costal edge with a narrow blackish streak. Cilia snow- 
white. Hind wing with 3 and 4 short-stalked, 6 and 7 short-stalked; glossy 
white, tinged isabel, veins more distinctly isabel -coloured, a faint longi- 
tudinal isabel suffusion below the costa from the base to 3 / 4 ; cilia snow- 
white. 
Tegumen moderate. Uncus short. Valva semiovate, moderately broad, 
top rounded; sacculus about 1 / 2 , posteriorly with a sclerotized ridge above; 
harpe long, bent twice, bristled above. Vinculum moderate. Anellus over 
3 / 4 . Aedoeagus slender, vesica with an apical cornutus. (Slide no. 882 D, 
holotype.) 
