MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
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half mixed with pale brownish-grey, basal half with a row of ferruginous 
bars not reaching base. Hind wing ochreous- whitish, glossy, towards the 
apex tinged pale tawny, a narrow suffused grey marginal line, forming 
small dots on the veins; cilia whitish, with a greyish basal shade. 
Ovipositor large, interior lobes short-haired. Limen, a strong curved 
transverse band, in the middle of which opens the narrow ostium. Ductus 
bursae broad along its basal fourth, abruptly narrowed and irregularly 
coiled below\ Bursa copidatrix small. Signum small, a weak round plate 
with one minute dentation in its middle. (Slide no. 900 D, type.) 
Araucaria Camp, 800 m, March 18, 1939. One, rather damaged, 
specimen. 
Head with loosely appressed scales, side tufts roughly spreading. 
Ocellus small, inferior. Proboscis developed, scaled towards the base. 
Antenna in the male slightly thickened, long-ciliate, ciliations 2, in the 
female minutely ciliate, scape thickened with appressed scales, rather 
short, without a pecten. Labial palpus long, recurved, ascending, median 
segment reaching beyond the base of the antenna, thickened with scales, 
Fig. 682: Proscedes torquigera gen. nov., spec, nov., male, head and wing neuration. 
roughish beneath, lower edge flattened dorso-ventrally, terminal segment 
over V 2 , thickened, pointed. Maxillary palpus small, slender, appressed. 
Thorax with short lateral crests. Anterior tarsus as long as the tibia, 
thickened with appressed scales, roughish at the apex. Posterior tibia 
densely long-haired above and beneath. Fore wing with small raised 
scale-tufts, elongate-ovate, apex and termen rounded; lb furcate at the 
base, 2 and 3 stalked from the angle, 4 closely approximated, 7 separate, 
Proscedes gen. nov. (fig. 682) 
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