MICROLEPIDOPTERA OE NEW GUINEA 
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ascending, median segment reaching to the base of the antenna, thickened 
with appressed scales, slightly furrowed towards the apex below, but 
hardly roughish, terminal segment over x / 2 of the median, slightly thick- 
ened, acute. Maxillary palpus small, appressed. Thorax smooth. Anterior 
Fig. 706. Euhylecoetes rhodophylla gen. nov., spec, nov., female, head and wing 
neuration. 
tibia dilated with dense appressed scales, towards the apex forming a 
broad pencil, enveloping the posterior half of the tibia, except on its inner 
side. Median and posterior tibiae covered with dense long appressed hairs. 
Fore wing without raised tufts, elongate-ovate, costa angularly arched at 
the base, curved in the middle, apex and termen rounded, lb furcate, 
2 from towards angle, 3 from angle, 3 — 5 equidistant, approximated, 
7 and 8 stalked, 7 to termen just below the apex, 11 from middle. Hind 
wing semiovate, over 1, cilia x / 3 ; 2 from 3 / 4 , 3 and 4 approximated from 
the angle, 5 approximated to 4, 6 and 7 parallel anteriorly, diverging 
posteriorly, closing vein between them strongly outwardly oblique, 8 free. 
Genotype Euhylecoetes rhodophylla spec, nov., female. 
$ 38 mm. Head pale ochreous, side-tufts suffused with greyish-lilac. 
Antenna dark lilac-grey, base of the flagellum, and scape, pale ochreous. 
Palpus whitish-ochreous slightly mixed with lilac at the base, and towards 
the apex. Thorax fulvous-lilac, a large erect-ovate apical spot, lilac- 
Euhylecoetes rhodophylla spec. nov. (figs. 706, 711) 
