138 
MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
to the termen, 11 from just beyond the middle. Hind wing with 2 from 
about 3 / 4 , 3 and 4 separate, approximated at the base, 5 approximated, 
6 and 7 stalked, 8 slightly sinuate, upper edge of the cell curved upward 
and approximated to 8 before the angle. Male genitalia of the Agriophara 
type, with costa unarmed. 
Genotype Proscedes torquigera spec, nov., male. 
Nearest to Synclmlara Meyrick, differing by the stalked veins 2 and 3 
in the fore wing, and by the much higher specialized male genitalia. 
Proscedes torquigera spec. nov. (figs. 682, 688) 
$ 23 — 24.5 mm. Head and thorax white mixed with pale greyish- 
fuscous. Antenna dark grey, towards the base above, white. Palpus white, 
mixed with pale greyish-fuscous, basal half of the median segment except 
its lower edge, and a narrow basal ring of the terminal segment, blackish. 
Abdomen ochreous-whitish, anal tuft pale golden-ochreous. Legs whitish; 
anterior leg blackish medianly, with tarsus black with two white rings; 
median leg, tibia with the knee and a subapical spot, blackish, tarsus with 
the basal segment black, other segments with black rings; posterior leg 
creamy, tarsus ringed with pale fuscous. Fore wing elongate-ovate, rather 
broad, dilated, with costa concave at extreme base, curved beyond this, 
somewhat prominent at 3 / 4 , apex rounded, termen rounded, moderately 
oblique. White, rather irregularly finely irrorated with dark fuscous, 
markings dark fuscous, partially slightly suffused with pale tawny- 
ochreous. A suffused spot on the base of the costa and an oblique trans- 
verse mark in the upper half of the disc beyond the base; a minute dot 
above 1 / 3 of the dorsum; an interrupted transverse fascia from before 1 / 4 
of the costa to beyond the middle of the dorsum, formed by a large oblique 
transverse dot on the costa, by a suffused transverse streak in the disc, 
and by a prostrate- V-shaped mark between the fold and the dorsum, with 
point directed basad; discal part of the fascia with its anterior edge 
serrate, preceded by a ridge of raised white scales, its posterior edge 
indefinite, continued by a pale light fuscous, and by a pale ochreous- 
tawny irroration in the cell, extending to well before the closing vein; 
another interrupted transverse fascia from before the middle of the costa 
to the tornus, formed by a large rounded dark fuscous dot on the costa 
before the middle, more or less connected with two small irregular longi- 
tudinal dashes between the bases of the veins 11, 10 and 9; a blackish- 
fulvous, curved, raised mark along the closing vein, almost connected 
below with a small triangular dark fuscous patch from the lower angle of 
the cell, reaching 2 / 3 towards the edge of the wing and bordered by veins 
2 + 3 and vein 5; a small longitudinal patch of pale ochreous-tawny 
irroration mixed with fuscous, just beyond the closing vein; four dark 
fuscous longitudinal marks along the posterior half of the costa: first dot 
linear, confluent with the submedian dot, other dots becoming round 
