MICROLEPIDOPTERA OP NEW GUINEA 
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second transverse fasciae on the second to the sixth segments, irrorated 
with dark brown, except the broad edges of the ground colour bordering 
these transverse fasciae; this irroration not extending over the cilia; an 
apical fascia about 1 / 2 as narrow as the second fascia, narrowly separated 
from the preceding by the ground colour, except on the cilia of the first 
and the second segments. Hind wing ochreous-yellow, paler than the fore 
wing; base suffused with dark brown, this colour extending beyond the 
base of the first cleft, and, on sixth segment, well beyond the base of the 
fifth cleft ; two small dots : on the base of the fourth cleft, and on the sixth 
segment opposite this; a moderate, inwardly oblique dark brown post- 
median fascia, projecting basad on the third segment, hardly extending 
over the cilia, except on sixth segment, where it forms a large patch before 
the middle; a second similar fascia, parallel, broader, forming another 
large patch at 2 / 3 of the sixth segment and of the cilia of the other segments 
only mixed with blackish; a third transverse fascia, tolerably parallel, 
broadest on the first segment, narrowed on the fourth, absent on the sixth, 
with the cilia blackish on all the segments, except the sixth; a subapical 
narrower fascia with black cilia on the first segment merging in the pre- 
ceding fascia. 
Uncus moderately long, clavate. Gnathos rather weak, Y-shaped. 
Transtilla present, a strong transverse rod. Valva dilated above, cucullus 
moderate, rising, flattened, its basal knob hardly developed. Vinculum 
with base moderate, slender, ovate. Furca, two broad, arched blades, with 
rounded tops. Aedoeagus slender, base dilated. Cornuti, several longi- 
tudinal series of short teeth. Coremata of the seventh abdominal segment 
strongly developed. (Slide no. 915 D, type.) 
Iebele Camp, 2250 m, November 20, 1938. One specimen. 
Orneodes xanthozona spec. nov. (fig. 718) 
tjav&og = yellow, fc ovrj = belt 
£ 19 mm. Head pale whitish-ochreous, vertex somewhat brighter, 
slightly mixed with brownish ; scape of the antenna with a narrow brown 
apical ring. Palpus long, ascending, moderately curved ; whitish-ochreous 
tinged pale yellowish, basal segment dark brown except its apex, 
median segment moderately dilated with appressed scales, with a small 
longitudinal streak of a dark brown irroration in the middle, terminal 
segment under 3, with a subapical ring of a dark brown irroration. Thorax 
bright ochreous-yellow, a broad transverse band of dark brown irroration 
at 2 / 3 , tegula bright yellow, a small dark brown dot on the middle of the 
base, posterior 2 / 3 greyish-white, apical halves of the scales dark brown. 
Abdomen bright orange-yellow, markings dark brown; first tergite with 
a pair of lateral, and a moderate median spot, second and third tergites 
dark brown, except a narrow pale posterior marginal line ; tergites 5 — 6 — 7 
