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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
Euzelotica gen. nov. (fig. 705) 
ev = true, JjjAamKog — eager 
Head with appressed scales. Ocellus inferior. Proboscis developed. 
Antenna 3 / 4 , pubescent in the female, scape moderate, without a pecten. 
Labial palpus very long, recurved, ascending, median segment much 
exceeding the base of the antenna, considerably thickened with roughly 
appressed hairs, slightly expanded towards the apex; terminal segment 
about 1, slender, acute. Maxillary palpus small, appressed. Thorax without 
crest ? (denuded). Median tibia with a median, and an apical whorl of 
moderately projecting scales. Posterior tibia considerably thickened with 
very dense loosely appressed scales. Pore wing elongate, rather narrow, 
costa curved at the base, apex subacute, termen rounded, lb furcate, 
2 and 3 stalked from the angle, 4 and 5 approximated at the base, 7 and 8 
stalked, 7 to the costa, 1 1 from before the middle. Hind wing l' / 2 , trapezoid- 
ovate, pointed, cilia over x / 3 ; 2 from 2 / 3 , 3 and 4 short-stalked from the 
angle, 5 parallel, submedian, 6 and 7 moderately approximated. 
Genotype Euzelotica acrosperma spec, nov., female. 
Euzelotica acrosperma spec. nov. (figs. 701, 705) 
a xqov = edge, OTteo/ja = seed 
$ 20 mm. Head and antenna pale ochreous. Palpus pale ochreous, 
median segment mixed, and suffused with dark fuscous along its lower 
half, and in a ring below its apex, terminal segment with a subapical dark 
fuscous ring. Thorax (rubbed) pale ochreous, suffused with dark fuscous 
except on the tegulae, and towards the apex. Abdomen pale ochreous, 
sides suffused with dark fuscous. Legs pale ochreous, anterior femur and 
tibia suffused with dark fuscous, median and posterior tibia with two 
spots of dark fuscous irroration, all tarsi dark fuscous, articulations of 
the segments with pale ochreous rings. Fore wing elongate, costa curved 
anteriorly, straight posteriorly, apex angularly pointed, termen almost 
straight, oblique. Pale ochreous. Costa with dark brown dots : two rounded 
dots, at the base and beyond 1 / 6 , respectively, an elongate dot beyond 2 / 5 , 
and five more along the posterior half to before the apex, two ultimate 
of these rounded and becoming tawny-brown; posterior half of the wing 
suffused with greyish-fuscous, this suffusion limited above by vein 7, 
below by the lower edge of the cell and vein 2; some brown irroration 
scattered on the posterior third of the cell and forming two interrupted 
longitudinal fines, below' vein 7, and below vein 0, respectively, not 
reaching the termen ; posterior half of the costa ochreous-whitish with a 
suffused, interrupted tawny subcostal streak running to below’ the penulti- 
mate costal dot; a faint series of ochreous-whitish subterminal dots 
between the veins. Cilia pale ochreous with an interrupted tawny ante- 
median shade, and a brownish bar opposite the apex. Hind wing glossy 
