MICROLEPID OPTERA OP NEW GUINEA 
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lilac-purple. Cilia rosy-coppery, somewhat suffused with whitish-grey, a 
suffused deep purple subapical fascia dilated towards the tornus. Hind 
wing pale golden-yellowish-ochreous, bright golden towards the apex, 
cilia concolorous. 
Valva elongate-semiovate, hardly curved, broader than in the pre- 
ceding species, with a rounded top ; sacculus under 1 / 2 , with a sclerotized, 
pointed top ; harpe club-shaped, less curved, shorter than in the preceding 
species, its top rounded. Anellus and aedoeagus very much like those in 
P. hexayona. (Slide no. 891 1), holotype.) 
Limen, a moderate rather weak transverse plate with the upper edge 
excavate in the middle. Above this edge two large bristly subrectangular 
plates, with rounded upper inner angles. Colliculum, a moderate tube. 
(Slide no. 1121 D, allotype.) 
Lake Habbema, 3250—3300 m, August 20, 1938 (holotype, male), end 
j u ly — end August, 1938 (allotype, female). Four specimens. Allied to 
P. Tiexagona spec. nov. 
Paralecta rhodometallica flagellata subspec. nov. 
£ 25 mm. Head and thorax creamy-white, the latter with the posterior 
half and the tips of the tegulae, touched with greyish -lilac, apical fourth 
suffused with greyish-lilac and dark fuscous, except a large round subapical 
spot of the ground colour. Palpus creamy-whitish, median segment above 
medianly, more or less infuscated. Abdomen ochreous-whitish, broad bands 
of orange-coppery bristles on the tergites 2 — 7, these bands triangularly 
dilated in the middle, becoming narrower posteriorly. Legs whitish- 
ochreous, anterior leg medianly suffused with golden-tawny, lore wing 
subtriangular-ovate, dilated, costa curved, apex angularly pointed, termen 
straight, oblique. Whitish, faintly touched with pale lilac, with isabel gloss 
in certain lights, more than posterior half regularly sprinkled with dark 
fuscous-lilac. Costa narrowly suffused with light lilac-ochreous, basal fifth 
of the costal edge dark lilac-fuscous ; dorsum anteriorly with a faint isabel 
suffusion, that is strongly and triangularly dilated at 2 / 5 of the wing and 
is reaching the lower edge of the cell, posterior edge of the triangle edged 
with a suffused fuscous-lilac streak; this streak straight, to 2 / 3 of the 
dorsum, narrowed and running along the dorsum to ®/ 4 , thence continued 
as a still narrower transverse fascia to below s / 4 of the costa; this fascia 
almost vertical to above the fold, thence strongly outwards-angulate, 
angulation rather blunt, fascia above and beneath this angulation gently 
outwards-concave, becoming gradually narrower and fainter above, 
indefinite below the costa; this fascia is preceded by a faint isabel-lilac 
suffusion. Cilia whitish with a faint coppery gloss, with a purple-lilac 
glossy apical band, strongly narrowed towards the apex, broadest in the 
tornus. Hind wfing and cilia pale golden-ochreous. 
