MICROLEPIDOPTERA OP NEW GUINEA 
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Paralecta hexagona spec. nov. (fig. 662) 
eS = six, ymvia = hook 
$ 28 — 30 mm. Head, thorax and abdomen creamy-white, thorax 
posteriorly and tips of the tegulae, suffused with pale lilac-greyish, trans- 
verse bands of bristles on the abdominal tergites little perceptible, deep 
coppery. Palpus creamy-white, laterally tinged isabel. Legs creamy- 
whitish. Fore wing elongate-triangular, costa little curved towards 
extremities, gently concave in the middle, apex blunt, termen gently 
concave, oblique. White, terminal fourth suffused with pale lilac-grey, 
sparsely sprinkled with elongate coppery-lilac scales posteriorly. Costa 
narrowly suffused with pale golden-ochreous ; markings lilac-coppery, 
with a golden gloss: a large triangular patch on 1 / 3 of dorsum, darker 
posteriorly, its top somewhat truncate, reaching to the lower edge of the 
cell, its lower posterior angle narrowly continued along the dorsum to 2 / 3 , 
connected there with a narrow suffused transverse fascia at 2 / 3 of the 
wing, acutely angulate somewhat above the middle, concave above and 
beneath, hardly reaching the costa at z / 3 ; a terminal suffusion from the 
apex to above the tornus, triangularly narrowed in the middle, with 
indefinite edge. Cilia coppery-fuscous, with a broad antebasal and a faint 
subapical purple shade, tips whitish; cilia opposite the apex, suffused 
with grey. Hind wing pale golden-ochreous, cilia paler, with a faint ante- 
median shade. 
Valva moderately curved, narrowed along the posterior half, its top 
broad, rounded; sacculus under a / 2 ; harpe, a long, sickle-shaped hook 
ascending above the disc of the valva, upper edge short-haired. V inculum 
moderate. Anellus 3 / 4 , broad. Aedoeagus short, its basal half dilated. 
(Slide no. 888 D, holotype.) 
Araucaria Camp, 800 m, March 7, 1939 (holotype, male). Rattan Camp, 
1200 m, February — March, 1939. Baliem Camp, 1700 m, November 
16 — 27, 1938. Three specimens. The paratypes with faint discal markings, 
with the dorsal patch hardly perceptible. Allied to P. electrophanes 
Me wrick. 
Paralecta acutangula spec. nov. (figs. 657, 658) 
$ 36 mm. Head white, side tufts pale isabel-colour. Antenna isabel. 
Palpus white, median segment suffused above with rosy-fuscous. Thorax 
pale isabel-lilac, a subapical inverted- V-shaped dark fuscous mark; 
patagium and tegula whitish, the latter suffused with pale lilac towards 
the apex. Abdomen isabel-whitish, segments dorsally with bands of 
coppery-ferruginous, fine, appressed bristles. Legs isabel, anterioi and 
median tarsus suffused with pale browmsh-ochreous. Fore wing with 
veins 3, 4, 5 approximated, 7 and 8 stalked, 8 to termen, 9 closely approxi- 
mated; elongate, dilated, somewhat curved; costa considerably cur\ed 
