MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
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blades slender, not dilated, slightly arched downward, with rounded tops. 
Aedoeagus large, narrowed towards the base which is dilated, and bulbate. 
Cornuti, a patch of thick spines. (Slide no. 917 D, holotype.) 
Iebele Camp, 2250 m, November 17, 1938. Two specimens. 
AEGERIIDAE 
Key to the Papuan genera of the Aegeriidae J ) 
1. Antenna pointed, without apical tuft of cilia 2 
Antenna clavate, ending in a minute tuft of cilia 4 
2. Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 stalked Micrecia Hampson 
Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 remote 3 
3. Fore wing with veins 7 and 8 separate Tinthia Walker 
Fore wing with veins 7, 8 and 9 stalked Callithia Le Cere 
4. Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 connate or stalked 5 
Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 separate 7 
5. Fore wing with veins 4 and 5 curved downwards 6 
Fore wing with veins 4 and 5 not curved downwards. . . Conopia Hubner 
6. Fore wing with vein 9 out of the stalk of 7 and 8 Aegerosphecia Le Cerf 
Fore wing with vein 9 separate Trilochana Moore 
7. Fore wing with veins 7 and 8 coincident Melanosphecia Le Cerf 
Fore wing with veins 7 and 8 stalked • 8 
8. Fore wing with vein 3 nearer to 2 than to 4; hind legs with extremely dense 
tufts throughout Melittia Hubner 
Fore wing with vein 3 nearer to 4 than to 2; hind legs normally scaled. . . . 
Paranthrene Hubner 
Trilochana Moore, 1879 
Trilochana Moore, 1879, Descr. Lep. Atkins., p. 9. Hampson, Fauna Brit. Ind., 
Moths, vol. 1, pp. 187, 190, 1893. Novit. Zook, vol. 26, pp. 49, 83, 1919. Proc. Ent. 
Soc. Lond., 1920, p. 84, 1921. Le Cerf in Oberthur, Etud. Lep. comp., vol. 14, 
pp. 272 — 273, 1917. Dalla Torre & Strand, Lepid. Catal., part 31, p. 136, 1925. 
Fletcher, Mem. Agrie. Ind., Ent., vol. 11, p. 231, 1929. Gaede in Seitz, Gross- 
Schmett., Indo-Austr., vol. 10, p. 787, 1933. 
Scoliomima Butler, 1885, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., 1885, p. 371. 
Trilochana smaragdina spec. nov. 
$ 41 mm. Head black, face (rubbed) presumably mixed with white, 
orbits broadly edged with silvery-white. Antenna black, unipectinate 
along their lower two-thirds, pectinations l 1 / 2 , each pectination minutely 
ciliate at the apex. Palpus black, slightly mixed with white. Thorax 
(denuded) violet-black with a purple and bluish shine, pectus fuscous- 
bronze, with a prismatic gloss. Abdomen purple-black, venter greyish- 
bronze; no anal tufts of hairs, possibly due to rubbing. Legs (much 
denuded) black, without long hairs (possibly due to rubbing). Fore wing 
i) Partially adopted from Hampson. 
