MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
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Xylesthes asper spec. nov. (figs. 703a, 703b) 
$ 31 mm. Head tawny, face paler. Antenna tawny, 
ringed w'ith pale ochreous. Palpus with the basal 
segment pale ochreous, median segment light tawny, 
with its low T er edge pale ochreous, except towards 
the apex, which is suffused with brown, terminal 
segment tawny, densely irrorated with brown. Thorax 
tawny, suffused with brown anteriorly, tegula long, 
brownish-fulvous, apex edged with pale ochreous. 
Abdomen dark greyish-fuscous, apex, and venter, 
whitish-ochreous. Legs pale ochreous, anterior and 
median tarsus, bronze-fulvous. Fore wing broad, 
ovate-subtruncate, costa strongly arched anteriorly, 
moderately curved posteriorly, apex subrectangular, 
termen straight above, rounded beneath, vertical. 
Taw’ny-oehreous, densely suffused with pinkish- 
fulvous, costa suffused w r ith light pink; anterior 3 / 5 
of the costa with some eight suffused greyish-lilac 
transverse marks, three anterior of these faint, 
linear, other forming cloudy spots, becoming larger 
posteriorly; an indication of a very faint broad 
suffused greyish transverse band just beyond the 
cell; a faint moderate spot below 4 / 5 of the costa; 
numerous violet-black points scattered over the wing 
in irregular transverse outwardly curved series, well- 
defined before the apex and the termen, arranged 
along the veins in three to four irregular transverse 
rows; a moderate spot of an orange-fulvous suffusion 
in the middle of the disc just beyond the cell; 
dorsum darker, suffused with lilac-fulvous. Cilia 
pale whitish-lilac, basal half except its extreme 
base, greyish-lilac. Hind wing pale ochreous with 
brassy gloss, towards the apex and the termen 
suffused with pale pink, dorsum and basal half finely irrorated with 
dark fuscous-grey, this irroration somewhat extending along the veins 
posteriorly. Cilia pale greyish-ochreous, basal half, except the extreme 
base, dark fuscous-grey. 
Ovipositor of the “floricomous” type, somewhat resembling that in 
certain Schoenotenidae ; each lobe divided in a smaller apical, and a 
broader, basal, pad. Ostium wide, shallow, cup-shaped. Bursa copulatrix 
sausage-like, without a distinct ductus bursae. Signum, a smell, lancet- 
shaped sclerite, with two medio-lateral groups of spinulae. (Slide no. 
1028 D, type). 
Fig. 7036. Xylesthes 
asper spec, nov., 
female genitalia. 
