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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
blackish finely irrorated with pale ochreous. Abdomen and legs whitish- 
ochreous, anterior femur suffused with dark lilac-grey above, anterior 
tibia with the inner side from the base to beyond the middle, dark lilac- 
grey, apical 1 / 3 ferruginous, anterior tarsus broadly banded with dark 
lilac-grey. Fore wing elongate-ovate, costa abruptly and angularly pro- 
jecting at the base, gradually curved from beyond the base to the apex, 
long-ciliated throughout, apex rounded, termen rounded, almost vertical. 
Bright glossy fulvous, suffused with pinkish-lilac : four transverse, out- 
wardly oblique series of markings, formed by a dull lilac-black irroration, 
slightly mixed with whitish-ochreous ; first of these series at 1 / 5 , formed 
by two moderate rounded spots, lower largest, just above fold, upper 
spot halfway between this and the costa; second series at 2 / 5 , slightly 
outwards-curved, formed by the indication of some four rounded dots; 
third series, an obliquely ovate ocellus on the closing vein, whitish, broadly 
edged with lilac-black, a few scattered scales above, and a cloudy spot 
below this ; a row of small interneural dots halfway between this and the 
termen, three dots in oblique series from below the costa to vein 7, four, 
in an outwardly curved series, shifted more distad, last of these above 
vein 3. Cilia light fulvous-pink. Hind wing whitish-ochreous; cilia whitish- 
ochreous, around apical third of the wing suffused with light pink, except 
towards the base. 
Ovipositor erect, pointed. Seventh sternite sclerotized, simple. Ductus 
bursae spiraled below, colliculum small, cylindrical. Bursa copulatrix 
elongate. Signum, a dentate small body. (Slide no. 1018 C, type.) 
Moss Forest Camp, 2600 — 2800 m, October 9 — November 5, 1938. 
One specimen. 
Cormotypa Meyrick, 1914 
Cormotypa, 1914, Exot. Microl., vol. 1, p. 250. Genit. Ins. ,fasc. 180, p. 127, 1922. 
Fletcher, Mem. Agric. Ind., Ent., vol. 11, p. 56, 1929. Gaede, Lepid. Catal., part 
92, p. 218, 1939. Turner, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, vol. 66, p. 413, 1941. 
Cormotypa leucochrysa spec. nov. (fig. 708) 
AEvy.og = pale, yovaog = gold 
$ 23 mm. Head, palpus, thorax and abdomen whitish, with a golden 
gloss. Legs whitish-yellow, anterior leg slightly infuscated. Fore wing 
elongate-subtriangular, costa moderately curved towards the extremities, 
little so in the middle, apex obtusely pointed, termen straight, con- 
siderably oblique. Yellowish-white, with a bright golden gloss, markings 
dark fuscous. An irrorated patch on the base of the costa, somewhat 
extended along vein 12 and above the fold, below terminated by the fold; 
stigmata formed by an irregular irroration, conspicuous; first discal 
rounded, at 1 / 3 , second narrowly transverse, fasciate, almost interrupted 
