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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
dark fuscous suffusion, almost connecting the blackish patch with the 
costa before the apex ; four suffused fuscous dots on the terminations of 
the veins along the posterior 2 / 5 of the costa; a narrow, fuscous marginal 
streak in the apex, and along the termen, from beyond the ultimate costal 
dot, becoming blackish-fuscous in the tornus; a suffused outwardly convex 
subterminal band from the costa before the apex to above the tornus, 
tawny, becoming dark fuscous towards the costa, interrupted in the 
middle; all the above mentioned markings strongly suffused, and obscured 
by fuscous irroration, except the white discal ocellus, which is well-defined. 
Cilia sordid whitish, with broad blackish-fuscous bars, tips suffused with 
fuscous-grey towards the tornus. Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 connate 
6 and 7 stalked; glossy pale whitish-fuscous, becoming paler towards 
tornus; cilia sordid whitish, with a broad dark greyish-fuscous median 
band. 
Uncus reduced to a pair of short knobs. Gnathos very long, arms 
slender, hook curved. Valva with a strong, simple, erect basal part, valva 
proper moderate, cylindrical, top rounded. Transtilla moderate, curved 
upward, narrower along median third. Harpe, hairy small knobs. Vinculum 
rounded, short. Furca, two strong broad blades with pointed apices. 
Aedoeagus extremely large and broad, narrowed; cornuti, two more or 
less denticulate sclerites. (Slide no. 902 1), holotype.) 
Ovipositor large, interior lobes and edge of the oviduct covered with 
crochet-like dentations. Limen, a broad transverse curved band with a 
round sclerite in the middle, with a wrinkled upper edge. Ductus bursae 
simple, coiled above bursa copulatrix, which is spheroid. Signum, a weak 
small round denticulate plate. (Slide no. 903 D, allotype.) 
Moss Forest Camp, 2600 — 2800 m, October 9 — November 5, 1938 
(holotype, allotype). Top Camp, 2100 m, January 19, 1939. One male, two 
females. The specimen from the Top Camp has darker, blackish-fuscous, 
markings. 
OECOPHORIDAE 
Key to the Papuan genera of the Oecophoridae 
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Fore wing with vein 10 absent Syscalma Me yrick 
Fore wing with vein 10 present 2 
Fore wing with vein 7 absent 3 
Fore wing with vein 7 present 5 
Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 distinctly separate . . . Acriotes gen. nov. 
Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 connate 4 
Antenna 1 Octasphales Meyrick 
Antenna 3 / 4 Triptologa Meyrick 
Fore wing with veins 8 and 9 out of 7 Parasophista Meyrick 
Fore wing with vein 9 separate, or connate or stalked with 10 ... 6 
