MICROLEPIDOPTERA OP NEW GUINEA 
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We are in doubt whether this third group might represent a separate 
genus. However, the only species at hand does not show any external 
differences with Agriophara, while the genitalia are of the same type except 
for the reduced uncus. Therefore we prefer to include nephelopa in the 
present genus, pending further evidence. 
With kind permission of the Trustees of the British Museum (Natural 
History), we publish here the above mentioned photograph and Mr. 
Bradley’s sketches of Agriophara cinerosa Rosenstock of the type 
specimen. Rosenstock records veins 3 and 4 in the fore wing as being 
long-stalked which is not the case. 
The genitalia may be described as follows. Uncus and gnathos well- 
developed. Valva with moderate but distinct sacculus and rather well- 
defined cucullus ; costa with a basal projection armed with some seven 
long crochets. Transtilla slender. Furca, two small rising blades. (Slide 
no. B.M. 1699.) 
Five species of Agriophara have been described from New Guinea. We 
place A. parilis Meyrick, 1918, A. neoxantha Meyrick, 1915, A. asaphes 
Diakonoff, 1948, and, tentatively, A. lysimacha Meyrick, 1915, in the 
cinerosa group, to which also belongs A. biornata spec, now A. parallela 
spec. nov. (and two more undescribed species in our possession, from other 
collections) belong to the distinct muscicolor group. Also malacobryas 
Meyrick, 1938, described as a Synchalara, very probably belongs to the 
latter group. 
Key to the Papuan species of Agriophara 
1. Greenish, markings brown or fuscous 
Pale whitish-ochreous or greyish-white 4 
2 A large transverse erect-triangular patch beyond »/i, becoming paler below 
but traceable across «/. of wing spec. nov. 
No such patch; sometimes a costal spot at */*, reaching not farther than across 
upper third of wing j 
3. Two narrow partially interrupted transverse fasciae, beyond base and at / 3 , 
respectively, and an oblique discal mark at 1 * 3 4 * 6 / 4 parallela spec. nov. 
One broad transverse fascia at 1 / 3 ; a moderate costal patch at 3 / 4 
muscicolor Meyrick 
4. Pale whitish-ochreous ; plical and second discal stigma black, the first connected 
with 1 / 5 of costa; a blackish dot on middle of costa, connected by a strongly 
curved line with 3 /s of dorsum, a fine interrupted submarginal line 
lysimacha Meyrick 
t 5 
White or greyish-white ' ‘ . 
5 An elongate dark fuscous patch in disc at 3 / 4 , enclosing a white dot in upper 
angle of cell nephelopa spec. nov. 
Not thus ‘ ' 
6. Three oblique interrupted grey fasciae, from base, from one fourth, and trom 
middle of costa, respectively, a strongly curved subinargmal lino from / B 
costa to dorsum before tornus ' 
An oblique short black streak on base of costa, a grey subterminal angulate 
