MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
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Ocystola Meyrick, 1885 
Ocystola Meyrick, 1885, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, vol. 9, p. 1058. Gener. 
Ins., Fasc. 180, p. 91, 1922. Fletcher, Mem. Agric. Ind., Ent., vol. 11, p. 150, 
1929. Gaede, Lepid. Catal., part 88, p. 151, 1938. Turner, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. 
Wales, vol. 65, p. 432, 1940 (synonyms: Haplodyta, Laxonoma). 
Haplodyta Meyrick, 1883, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, vol. 7, p. 422; ibidem, 
vol. 10, p. 765, 1886. Gener. Ins., fasc. 180, p. 88, 1922. Fletcher, Mem. Agric. Ind., 
Ent., vol. 11, p. 103, 1929. Gaede, Lepid. Catal., part 88, p. 149, 1938. 
Laxonoma Meyrick, 1914, Exot. Microl., vol. 1, p. 240. Gener. Ins., fasc. 180, 
p. 89, 1922. Fletcher, Mem. Agric. Ind., Ent., vol. 11, p. 123, 1929. Gaede, Lepid. 
Catal., part 88, p. 150, 1938. 
Ocystola fumosa spec. nov. (fig. 710) 
17.5 mm. Head antenna, palpus, and thorax, dark bronze-brown 
terminal segment of the palpus with the base, and the tip, mixed with 
sordid whitish, apical half of the tegula yellowish-white. Abdomen fuscous- 
grey with a bronze gloss. Legs dark bronze-fuscous, tarsi paler. Fore wing 
elongate-subovate, rather narrow, broadest in the middle, costa mode- 
rately curved, apex rather pointed, termen slightly rounded, very oblique. 
Yellowish-white, irrorated with blackish-fuscous, markings extended, 
blackish-fuscous. A streak along the anterior half of the costa reaching 
to vein 12, posterior half of the costa irrorated with blackish-fuscous; a 
broad transverse suffused blotch before 1 / 4 , moderately dilated above, 
posterior edge with two projections, in the cell and in the fold, respec- 
tively; another similar blotch at s / 5 , broader, subtriangular, becoming 
paler towards the costa, enclosing a round spot of ground colour above the 
middle, connected with the preceding blotch by a broad longitudinal 
streak of dense dark fuscous irroration, occupying the median third of 
wing; a large apical patch occupying about J / 4 of the wing, its edge in- 
wardly oblique from about 4 / s of the costa to the tornus, connected with 
the preceding patch by a broad projection in the middle, and by a narrower 
projection along the tornus; a subterminal row of ill-defined, rounded 
spots of the ground colour, from the apex to the tornus. Cilia dark fuscous, 
dotted along their middle with blackish-fuscous. Hind wing blackish- 
bronze, cilia dark bronze-fuscous. 
Tegumen narrowed. Uncus small, with a broad base, and an obtuse 
point. Anal tube distinct. Gnathos very large, broad, arms forming 
together a groove, top acute. Transtilla moderate, constricted in the middle 
with a short porrect point. Valva with a concave top, cucullus small, 
pointed, sacculus over 1, with a projecting point. Vinculum rounded. 
Aedoeagus moderate, narrowed. Cornutus, a sinuate long spine. (Slide 
no. 1024 D, type.) 
Lake Habbema, 3250 — 3300 m, August 10, 1938. One specimen. 
