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MICROLEPID OPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
edge of the cell curved upwards, and approximated to 8 before the angle. 
Genotype Nothochalara sordida spec, nov., female. 
Nearest to Synchalara Meyrick, differing by the stalked veins 7 and 8 
in the fore wing and by the approximated veins 3 and 4 in the hind wing. 
Fig. 681 : Notochalara sordida gen. nov., spec, nov., female, head and wing neuration. 
Nothochalara sordida spec. nov. (figs. 681, 689, 690) 
$ 21 mm. Head white. Palpus sordid whitish, median segment mixed 
with greyish-fuscous. Thorax and antenna creamy. Abdomen and legs 
pale ochreous-whitish. Fore wing elongate-ovate, rather narrow, little 
dilated, broadest at 3 / 4 , costa curved towards the extremities, straight in 
the middle, apex obtuse, termen rounded, considerably oblique. Whitish. 
Costal fourth from the base to before the apex irregularly suffused with 
light tawny-fulvous, a ferruginous suffused oblique spot on the base of the 
costa; an irregular broad curved streak of a blackish -fuscous irroration 
mixed with ferruginous, running obliquely from below ’/ 4 of the costa to 
the cell, along the posterior 2 / 3 of the latter, then curved upward, running 
along the posterior 1 / 5 of the costa; a faint curved submarginal row of 
ferruginous suffused dots from below 4 / 5 of the costa, traversing the 
preceding streak, thence running before the termen and parallel to it, to 
the tornus; a faint streak of fulvous suffusion along the fold posteriorly, 
mixed with a few brownish scales, and an ill-defined patch of a similar 
suffusion on the basal fourth of the dorsum ; a narrow ferruginous marginal 
line, interrupted so as to form two small streaks on the costa before the 
apex, thence continuous from the apex to the tornus. Cilia whitish, apical 
