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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
Uncus short. Gnathos robust, top rounded. Valva narrow, curved; 
sacculus over 1 / 2 , apex simple; harpe, a broad deeply scobinate and finely 
dentate sclerotized patch, with several dense groups of bristles posteriorly, 
apex short-pointed. Vinculum small. Anellus strong, under L j„, apical third 
narrowed and dentate. Aedoeagus gently curved. (Slide no. 886 D, holo- 
type.) 
Sigi Camp, 1500 m, February 23, 1939 (holotype). Rattan Camp, 
1200 m, February — March, 1939. Two males. Differs from the genotype, 
N. hypoperena Meyrick, by the infuscated base of the costa in the fore 
wings, and by the grey hind wings. 
Paralecta Turner, 1897 
Paralecta Turner, 1897, Ann. Queensl. Mus., vol. 4, p. 25. Fletcher, Mem. 
Agric. Ind., Ent., vol. 11, p. 162, 1929. 
Key to the Papuan and Malayan species of Paralecta 
(Malayan species are placed between brackets) 
1. Sexes dimorphous: fore wing in male black, with metallic gloss, in female white, 
with a black discal spot and dark terminal suffusion . . ( antistola Meyrick) 
Not thus 2 
2. Fore wing devoid of dark markings 3 
Fore wing with more or less developed dark markings present .... 6 
3. Silvery -white* four ochreous lines: along costa, in middle of disc, along fold, 
and along dorsal edge; a dot on lower angle of cell .amphiplicata Meyrick 
U nicolorous 4 
4. Glossy straw-yellow, cilia concolorous cerocrossa Meyrick 
Dull pale brownish 5 
5. Antennal cilia! ions D/a! unicolorous pale brownish; vein 9 connate 
isopda Meyrick 
Antennal ciliations 2 1 / 2 : pale brownish suffused with whitish towards costa 
except towards apex; vein 9 separate vadosa Meyrick 
6. A black dot in apex and a row of smaller dots along lower half of terrnen; 
costa with an orange streak terminata Meyrick 1 
Not thus 7 
7. A white streak below anterior half of costa, edged below by a greyish-violet 
streak from base of dorsum to near apex iocapna Meyrick 
No such longitudinal streak 8 
8. A variably shaped ungulate or sinuate transverse line or band subterminal: 
at V 4 — x /s> however faint, still perceptible 9 
Sometimes a marginal terminal streak, but no trace of a transverse subterminal 
fascia 14 
9. Transverse fascia strongly outwards -angulate above middle 10 
Transverse fascia outwardly convex just above middle, concave above and 
beneath, not angulate chalarodes Meyrick 
b Described as a Xylorycta. 
