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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
Key to the Papuan species of Chezala 
1 Whitish -ochreous sprinkled with fuscous; dark dot on base of costa and short 
' mark along base of dorsum limitaris Meyeick 
Light ochreous suffused with tawny and irrorated with dark brown; a narrow 
basal spot with irregular edge cathara spec. nov. 
Chezala cathara spec. nov. (fig. 699) 
xa&aQog = candid 
30 mm. Head and thorax light fuscous-brown, apex of the latter paler. 
Antenna fight ochreous-tawny, ringed with dark brown, serrulate, ciliations 
4, scape suffused with dark brown interiorly. Palpus fight ochreous-tawny, 
median segment moderately irrorated with fight fuscous, except its upper 
edge. Abdomen light ochreous-tawny, two basal segments brown, posterioi 
edges of all the segments pale tawny-ochreous, venter narrowly dark 
brown. Legs pale tawny-ochreous, irrorated (anterior leg suffused) with 
dark fuscous, except the bands around the articulations; posterior tibia 
haired throughout above. Fore wing subtriangular, strongly dilated, costa 
considerably curved towards the extremities, straight in the middle, apex 
subobtuse, termen straight, moderately oblique. Light ochreous suffused 
with tawny and irrorated, except towards the costa, with dark brown, 
markings formed by a dark coffee- brown irroration. A rather narrow' basal 
spot, edge irregular, convex; stigmata conspicuous, first discal small, 
round, second discal transversely-semiovate, plical elongate, hardly beyond 
first discal; an ill-defined spot of brown irroration from the second discal 
stigma to the costa, a smaller transverse spot, opposite this, on the dorsum ; 
an ill-defined, irrorated and curved fascia from below' 4 / s of the costa to 
the preceding spot, acutely angulate anteriorly opposite the apex, the area 
between this fascia and the cell filled with coarser and less dense brown 
irroration; apex and termen suffused with deeper tawny. Cilia fuscous 
with pale ochreous base, mixed with darker fuscous in the tornus. Hind 
wfing with vein 5 approximated; fight tawny with a faint bronze gloss, 
towards the dorsal edge coarsely irrorated with fuscous, on the posterior 
2 / 5 moderately infuscated. Cilia pale ochreous-fuscous with an antemedian 
suffused dark fuscous band. 
Tegumen broad at the base. Uncus rather small, point short, curved. 
Socii represented by sparse short hairs at the base of the uncus. Anal tube 
membraneous. Gnathos large, with broad arms, finely denticulate poste- 
riorly above, point pending. Transtilla, a broad band with dilated base, 
in the middle angulate upwards, and with the lower edge deeply incised. 
Valva narrowed, cucullus obtuse, sacculus moderate, s / 4 . Vinculum short, 
subobtuse. Aedoeagus moderate, little curved, with an apical hook, 
turned upward. Cornutus, a long blade. (Slide no. 1003 D, type.) 
Moss Forest Camp, 2850 m, July 20, 1938. One specimen. 
