MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
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with yellow. Palpus brown-black, with very long fringe of scales below, 
dorsum with a bright yellow streak, narrow on the median, broad, 
attenuated, on the terminal segment. Thorax (denuded) blackish-brown, 
with a few yellow scales, indications of a median, and of an apical yellow 
transverse band, patagium metallic bluish-violet. Abdomen purplish- 
black; bright yellow markings, a rather broad streak along the posterior 
edge of the second segment laterally, a narrow ring along the posterior 
edge of the fourth segment, and a lateral spot on the seventh segment; 
anal tuft mixed with orange; venter with a yellow spot on the second and 
the third ventrites, a broad band on the fourth, a narrow one on the fifth 
longitudinal median orange patch on the anal ventrites. Legs brownish- 
black; anterior femur and tibia with a long black fringe below, femur 
yellow internally, externally with a broad orange streak from beyond the 
base of the tibia, to the tip of the tarsus; median leg, coxa yellow, tibia 
with the basal half and a tuft at the apex, orange, tarsus orange above; 
posterior leg, coxa broadly yellow, tibia with a broad yellow median band 
and an orange apical band, tarsus orange above. Fore wing with the costa 
as far as the upper edge of the cell, dark fuscous, this colour extending 
beyond the cell as a narrow marginal streak to before the apex; some 
orange scales below the costa anteriorly; a narrow yellowish line along the 
posterior half of the vein 1 2 ; dorsal margin with a rather narrow fuscous 
streak, dilated anteriorly, so as to occupy the space below vein lb; a 
blackish-fuscous patch of roughish hair-scales on the base of the wing; 
semitransparent deep orange scaling below the cell from its base to the 
origin of vein 2, and in the posterior half of the cell; space between the 
costa, and vein 5, and below this vein from its basal third to the lower 
angle of the cell, orange-yellowish, densely and evenly suffused with fuscous, 
less densely suffused between veins 7 and 9; termen from vein 5 to the 
tornus, with a narrow' fuscous, mixed with yellowish, marginal line, 
slightly dilated above; all veins dark fuscous; a cloudy moderate fuscous 
band along the closing vein; hyaline areas (viz. anterior half of the costa 
from beyond the basal, and the tornal patches, as indicated), yellowish. 
Cilia pale fuscous, mi xed with fulvous. Hind wing yellowish-hyaline, all 
veins and margin, narrowly dark fuscous. Cilia light fuscous-purple. 
Araucaria Camp, 800 m, March 21, 1938. One specimen. Possibly 
nearest to P. pentazonata Hampson. 
