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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
as a slender, outwardly convex striga along the closing vein, its posterior 
angle with a blunt projection below the costa, followed by two small dots, 
ultimate dot on the costa before the apex; a series oi some five moderate 
marginal dots from the apex to the tornus, erect, irregular, second dot 
(subapical) large, angularly projecting basad; a patch of scattered fuscous 
scales between the lower half of the closing vein and the termen; some 
fuscous suffusion along the dorsum. Cilia white, barred with blackish- 
fuscous, basal third of these bars black. Hind wing white tinged isabel, 
with bright silvery gloss, cilia white with an indication of a fuscous inter- 
rupted antemedian strigula. 
Uncus robust. Gnathos with narrow arms, and a narrow top. Valva 
narrow, curved; harpe, a strong, recurved subbasal tooth; sacculus with a 
strongly sclerotized upper surface. Vinculum moderate. Aedoeagus curved, 
of a moderate length. (Slide no. 1029 D, type.) 
Moss Forest Camp, five km northeast of Lake Habbema, 2800 m, 
October 20, 1938. One specimen. 
Phthonerodes aristaepennis spec. nov. (figs. 674, 675, 680) 
9 32 mm. Head and base of the antenna whitish, flagellum greyish. 
Palpus dark grey, basal segment, base of the median and the terminal 
segments, paler fuscous-grey. Thorax dark grey mixed with white (dam- 
aged). Abdomen pale greyish-ochreous, venter whitish-ochreous. Legs 
whitish-grey, posterior whitish. Fore wing elongate-subovate narrow, 
long, costa moderately curved, more so posteriorly, apex subobtuse, 
termen gently rounded, considerably oblique. Whitish, speckled and 
suffused with fuscous-greyish, and dark fuscous, markings blackish- 
fuscous. Costa narrowly irrorated with fuscous, costal edge and costal cilia 
posteriorly, white; a dark leaden-grey suffusion irrorated with fuscous, 
occupying the basal third of the wing and extended below the cell to 3 / 4 , 
on the costa angularly produced posteriorly and merging in the costal 
irroration ; an ill-defined wedge-shaped streak of blackish -fuscous irroration 
from i/ 4 of the costa to above the middle of the dorsum, some whitish 
suffusion on the base of the costa; four cloudy greyish -fuscous blotches 
along the posterior third of the costa, interconnected and almost forming 
a single marginal patch, ending in the apex; a somewhat paler greyish 
transverse subterminal band, and a terminal suffusion originating from 
the preceding markings and converging in the tornus; a round blackish 
dot on each angle of the cell, in right wing interconnected and continued 
as a blackish streak to 2 / 3 of the costa; a white dot on the end of the fold, 
followed by a small spot of a black irroration; posterior 2 / 3 of the wing 
strongly speckled with blackish-fuscous. Cilia whitish, tips suffused with 
grey, basal half black, with white bars except in the apex. Hind wing pale 
ochreous-greyish, a broad ill-defined marginal grey shade; edia white, an 
interrupted blackish antemedian line. 
