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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OP NEW GUINEA 
Moss Forest Camp, 2600 — 2800 m, October 9 — November 5, 1938. 
One specimen. 
Head with roughly appressed scales. Ocellus posterior (subinferior). 
Proboscis developed, smoothly scaled basally. Antenna slightly over 1, 
in female simple, scape moderately thickened, elongate, without a pecten. 
Labial palpus long, recurved, median segment much exceeding the base 
of the antenna, moderately thickened with smoothly appressed scales, 
somewhat expanded at the extreme apex below, terminal segment slightly 
under 1, slender, acute. Maxillary palpus short, slender, drooping. Thorax 
Fig. 704: Acriotes saprocarpodes gen. nov., spec, nov., female, head and wing 
neuration. 
without a crest. Anterior tarsus longer than the tibia, not thickened. 
Median tibia towards apex thickened with closely appressed scales. 
Posterior tibia smoothly scaled. Fore wing elongate-ovate, costa ciliate, 
concave in the middle, with a projecting triangular tuft of scales at 1 / 3 , 
apex and termen strongly rounded, former indefinite, lb long-furcate 
( 2 / 5 ), 2 and 3 stalked from the angle, 4 and 5 moderately approximated, 
6 apparently to the apex, 7 absent, 8 from below the angle, to the costa, 
9 separate, from angle, 11 from 1 / 3 . Hind wing elongate-semiovate, about 1, 
cilia 1 / 5 , 2 from beyond 4 / s , 3 separate from 4, from before the angle, 4 from 
the angle, 5 not approximated, 6 and 7 remote, diverging, 8 sinuate, 
approximated to the upper edge of the cell along the basal fifth of the 
latter. 
Acriotes gen. nov. (fig. 704) 
axgioTES = like an Acria 
