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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
tornus; some fuscous speckling all over the wing. Cilia (imperfect) whitish, 
mixed with fuscous. Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 separate, 6 and 7 
stalked; pale sordid whitish, tinged pale fuscous, rather glossy; cilia 
(imperfect), whitish, with a narrow antemedian grey line. 
Uncus with a quadrate basal part, shoulders denticulate; apical part, 
a slender projection. Gnathos with broad, laterally flattened arms, and a 
narrowed and curved hook. Valva simple, a strong erect narrow basal 
part with, at its upper extremity, a slender valva proper ; a haired small 
pad at each side opposite the middle of the base of the valva. Transtilla 
broad, constricted in the middle. Vinculum broad, short, top pointed. 
Furca, two haired projections. Aedoeagus moderate, tubular. Cornuti, a 
denticulate plate. (Slide no. 905 D, type.) 
Iebele Camp, 2250 m, November 13, 1938. One, rather damaged 
specimen. 
Agriophara nephelopa spec. nov. (figs. 686, 687, 694) 
vEcpefa'i = cloud, coxp = eye 
$ 27 mm, $ 25 — 30 mm. Head whitish, vertex sordid light ochreouss 
Antenna whitish, ringed light grey, posterior half dark fuscous, ciliation. 
in the male, 3. Palpus sordid pale ochreous, median segment infuscated 
along the half of the upper edge, more so in the male, terminal segment 
mixed with dark fuscous, in the male over s / 4 , in the female over Thorax 
whitish, anterior third suffused with dark fuscous, a broad transverse 
subapical dark fuscous band. Abdomen whitish-greyish with ochreous 
gloss, anal tuft in the male whitish. Legs tawny-fuscous, posterior leg 
whitish with tawny spurs and tarsus, anterior leg in the male suffused 
with blackish above. Fore wing elongate-subovate, broader and more 
dilated in the male; broadest at 3 / 4 , in the female at “/ 3 , costa curved, apex 
obtuse, termen slightly rounded, moderately oblique. Sordid whitish, 
irregularly and coarsely irrorated with tawny and dark fuscous, markings 
dark fuscous, suffused. Basal patch rather large, its edge considerably 
outwards-oblique, with an excavation below the costa, on the dorsum 
reaching 2 / 5 ; a subquadrate spot on of the costa and a large irregular, 
strongly suffused patch at 2 / 5 of the disc below and beyond the preceding, 
reaching below the fold; a subquadrate dot on the middle of the costa, 
almost connected by an outwardly convex ill-defined and interrupted 
transverse band of a dark fuscous suffusion, with the dorsum beyond the 
middle, connected with discal patch by a dark fuscous suffusion along 
the fold, and by a tawny suffusion in the cell; an elongate longitudinal 
patch of a blackish-fuscous suffusion from before the upper angle of the 
cell, reaching halfway towards the apex, edged by veins 5—7, enclosing a 
round white dot on the upper angle of the cell, and obscured above and 
posteriorly by inwardly oblique, ill-defined, small marks of tawny and 
