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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OP NEW GUINEA 
Genitalia of Proselena annosana Meyrick (figs. 394, 399). 
Tegumen small, narrowed. Uncus small, hook slender, simple. Socius small, 
pending. Gnathos moderate, normal, hook slender. Transtilla extremely strong: an 
erect-quadrate plate with rounded, finely dentate labides, and a long, strong, spike- 
like porrect projection at each side of lower edge of this plate. Valva very small, 
membraneous, strongly narrowed, fine-bristled, sacculus strong, sclerotized, ending 
in an acute thorn. Vinculum rather large, chitinous, subquadrate. Aedoeagus long, 
curved in middle, apically becoming narrow and strongly sclerotized, ending in a 
large spike. Comuti not perceptible. (Slide No, 751 D.) 
Limen a strong straight transverse band, dilated laterally, and with a longitudinal 
fold. Ostium very wide. Colliculum strong, subcylindrical, dilated above, rather 
long, irregularly plicate below. Ductus bursae short.. Bursa eopulatrix ovoid. 
Signum, a moderate smooth and acute tooth. Eighth tergite sclerotized. Ovipositor 
lobe subtriangular, rather tortrieoid (Slide No. 752 D.) 
Genitalia of Proselena niphostrota Meyrick (figs. 395, 390). 
Tegumen and uncus very much like those in the preceding species, somewhat 
broader. Socius longer. Gnathos broader, but weak, angulate, not pending. Transtilla 
slender, a transverse, V-shaped moderate band. Valva larger, less narrowed, sacculus 
little chitmised, ending in a blunt point. Vinculum strong, erect-rectangular. 
Aedoeagus chitinous, base bulbate, apex slightly curved. (Slide No. 753 D.) 
Limen a broad, slightly curved transverse band, somewhat plicate below. Colli- 
culum slender, elongate, narrowed above. Ductus bursae narrow, long. Bursa 
eopulatrix subspheroid, simple. Eighth tergite elongate. Ovipositor lobe elongate, 
rather narrow, lower fourth narrowed and curved : schoenoteniform. (Slide No. 754D.) 
Nearly allied to the following, this genus is a specialised off-shoot of 
the Schoenotenes branch. There are two small Australian and two closely 
allied New Zealand species. 
The transtilla in Proselena annosana is of the same type as in Paraselena 
thamnas, and shows a correlation with the genus Stenotenes. 
Mr Bradley, of the British Museum, kindly sent us specimens of both 
the above mentioned species for study. 
Proselena spec. 
Iebele Camp, 2250 m, November — December, 1938. One specimen, 
almost entirely denuded. The neuration shows all the peculiar characters 
of the genus, but the size is exceptionally large: 24 mm. 
Paraselena Meyrick, 1910 (fig. 382) 
Paraselena Meyrick, 1910, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, vol. 35, p. 164. Lepid. 
Catal., fasc. 10, p. 1, 1912. Gener. Ins., fasc. 149, p. 7, pi. 1, fig. 13, 1913. Fletcher, 
Mem. Agr. Ind., Ent., vol. 11, p. 164, 1929. Diakonoff, Zool. Meded. Mus. Leiden, 
vol. 31, p. 170, 1952. 
The original description is as follows: “Antennae in male moderately ciliated. 
Palpi moderate, porrected, second joint dilated with rough scales above and beneath, 
terminal short. Thorax smooth. Forewings with 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to termen. 
Hindwings with 3 from much before angle, remote and nearly equidistant from 
2 and 4, 4 from angle, 5 rather approximated to 4 at base, transverse vein very 
oblique, 6 and 7 long-stalked”. 
