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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
Abdomen (strongly damaged) pale ochreous? Legs (almost completely 
missing) with anterior femur, fuscous. Fore wing elongate-subtriangular, 
rather narrow, considerably dilated, broadest at 3 / 4 ; costa curved anteri- 
orly, straight posteriorly, gently concave in the middle, apex obtusely 
pointed, termen moderately rounded, oblique. ( ■ lossy pale ochreous, tinged 
deeper straw-ochreous towards the apex; markings formed by a dark 
fuscous-brown irroration. Costal edge narrowly suffused with light 
ochreous. A dark fuscous elongate costal patch occupying less than one- 
sixth of its base, rather well-defined, narrowed posteriorly and at the 
extreme base, its lower edge with a rounded prominence beyond the base ; 
an elongate-ovate, narrow spot at 3 / 6 of the costa; an elongate suffused 
inwardly oblique transverse spot on 4 /- of the costa; irregular brown marks 
on terminations of the veins from beyond this to the tornus; larger of 
these on veins 8, 7 and 6; a narrow brownish marginal line along the lower 
part of the termen, dilated in the tornus so as to form an ill-defined suf- 
fused elongate patch; first discal stigma represented by an elongate, 
moderate submedian spot at 3 / 3 , plical stigma also elongate, smaller, 
somewhat before the first discal; an ill-defined transverse spot of a brownish 
irroration extending over the closing vein; a small elongate dot on s / 4 of 
the dorsum ; the wing beyond cell irregularly strewn with brownish scales 
which tend to form a connection between the second discal patch and the 
tornus, and between the costal spot at 3 / 4 with the middle of the disc. 
Cilia light straw-ochreous, with an antemedian band of brownish irroration, 
brown marks on the terminations of the veins extending over the base of 
the cilia. Hind wing pale greyish-ochreous, glossy, densely and evenly 
irrorated with fuscous, cilia pale golden-ochreous, a faint antemedian 
shade towards the apex. 
Uncus moderate, little curved. Gnathos large, denticulate above before 
its top which forms a strong curved point. Transtilla, a moderate band. 
Valva broad, cucullus rounded, sacculus 1, ending in a blunt apical process. 
Furca absent. Aedoeagus little curved. Signum, a slender rod, its anterior 
half dilated, so as to form two pointed blades. (Slide no. 1123 D, type.) 
Scree Valley Camp, 3800 m, September 22, 1938. One specimen. 
Epicurica spec. 
Baliem Camp, 1700 m, November 16 — 27, 1939. One female. An elegant 
crimson coloured species, but too much damaged, and unfit for description. 
Euhylecoetes gen. nov. (fig. 706) 
ev — true, v/.rjuotrrjg = forest dweller 
Head with appressed scales, side-tufts spreading. Ocellus inferior. 
Proboscis developed. Antenna minutely pubescent in the female, scape 
elongate, with a strong pecten. Labial palpus moderately long, recurved, 
