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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
with long white, and blackish-purple hair-scales, a large median deep 
blackish-purple patch anteriorly, shining bluish in certain lights, extending 
over the tegidae which are white. Abdomen blackish purple, anteriorly 
with coppery posterior bands of fine bristles, posteriorly with whitish 
bands, venter yellowish, dark-banded. Anterior leg black, tibia white 
below and laterally (other legs broken). Fore wing elongate, little dilated, 
costa strongly curved at the base, moderately convex in the middle, 
slightly prominent at 3 / 4 , straight beyond 3 / 4 , apex obtuse, termen rounded, 
vertical above, oblique beneath. Pale ochreous-whitish tinged rosy, 
marked and irrorated with blackish -purple. A rather broad transverse 
streak from the base of the costa to the base ol the dorsum, with an 
irregularly serrate edge; anterior a / 3 of the costa with a narrow marginal 
streak, posterior third with four elongate longitudinal spots, broader than 
the preceding, alternating will) four smaller transverse w T hite marks, the 
last mark well before the apex; an oblique curved transverse mark on the 
closing vein, curved below and reaching anteriorly to before the base of 
vein 2, a coarse irregular irroration all over the wing, a rather broad 
terminal band of very dense irroration somewhat mixed with scales of the 
ground colour running from the costa before the apex, in the apex and 
along the termen to the tornus, slightly narrowed below, with small 
marginal groups of white scales corresponding with the white bars of cilia. 
Cilia dark bronze-fuscous, broadly and regularly barred with white. Hind 
wing rather pale grevish-ochreous-fuscous, marginal half suffused with 
bronze-brown, this suffusion dense along the wing edge; a suffused trans- 
verse dark bronze-brownish mark along the closing vein; cilia white, 
regularly barred with dark bronze-brown. 
Ovipositor with an elongate, narrowed top. Limen, a curved transverse 
rod, and two haired plates above this rod. Ductus bursae membraneous. 
Bursa simple. (Slide no. 974 D, type.) 
Top Camp, 2100 m, January 25, 1939. One specimen. A robust insect, 
reminding of a Noctuid. 
Arignota clavatrix spec. nov. (fig. 644) 
$ 45 mm. Head and thorax fuscous mixed with ochreous-white. Antenna 
fulvous, dark fuscous above. Palpus with the median segment dark 
fuscous above, lower (ventral) half and the fringe of scales pale ochreous, 
terminal segment fuscous mixed with pale ochreous, a basal ring and the 
tip whitish. Abdomen hairy, brownish-fuscous, faintly banded with pale 
ochreous, with transverse bands of coppery-golden setae, the band on 
the second tergite conspicuous, occupying its entire breadth; a preanal 
pale golden-ochreous band, mixed with fulvous laterally; sides of the 
abdomen blackish-fuscous. Legs ochreous-whitish mixed with fuscous- 
black, especially above, tarsi fuscous-black mixed with ochreous-white 
along the apical half. Fore wing elongate-subovate, costa gently curved 
