MICROLEPIDOPTERA OE NEW GUINEA 
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Genotype Paraselena thamnas Meyrick, 1910 (Australia). 
We had no opportunity to study representatives of this genus, but Mr. Bradley 
kindly provided us with a sketch of the 
neuration of the unique type specimen of 
P. thamnas (fig. 382), and with photographs 
of the genitalia of the type, a male 
(fig. 393), here reproduced by the courtesy 
of the Trustees of tho British Museum. 
After studying this sketch we can add 
the following particulars to the Meyrick ’s 
description of the genus. Fore wing with 
lb furcate along basal 1 / :! , 2 from middle, 
3—5 closely approximated from angle, 
10 from 3 / 4 , 1 1 from about middle of cell, 
parting vein from l /j of upper edge of cell 
to between bases of 5 and 6. Hind w'ing 
with 2 from about a / 3 , transverse vein 
weak, 6 and 7 long-stalked, from base, 
connected by a transverse bar with two- 
thirds of the distance of upper edge of 
cell between base of w’ing and base of 
vein 5; 8 strong, from base. 
The genitalia, as far as we can read the 
photograph (fig. 393), may bo described 
as follows. Tegumen broad, triangular. 
Uncus with a triangular base, ending in a 
slender simple hook. (Socius not percep- 
tible.) Gnathos, an angularly bent, pending 
rod. Transtilla extremely strong: a trans- 
verse broad band, with upper edge slightly 
excavate in middle and short-dentate, 
lower edge with two strong, little curved 
pending appendages. Valva with a slightly 
curved cucullus, sacculus 1 / 2 , strong, ending 
in a transverse long spike. Aedoeagus 
moderately bent in middle, ending in an 
acute transverse hook. Cornuti a slender 
dentate band. (Genit. Slid© No. 6742 B.M., 
Gates Ci.arke fecit.) The peculiar sclero- 
tized transtilla strongly resembles that i: 
fig. 400). and that in Pvoselena annosuna. 
Fig. 393: 
Paraselena thamnas Meyrick, lecto- 
type, male genitalia. (By the courtesy 
of the Trustees of the British Museum, 
Natural History. Phot. No. 6742 B.M.) 
Oligotenes chrysentes spec. nov. (cf. 
Palaeotoma Meyrick, 1881 (figs. 389, 390) 
Palaeotoma Meyrick, 1881, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, vol. 6, p. 422; ibidem, 
vol. 35, p. 293, 1910. Lepid. Catal., vol. 10, p. 71, 1912. Gener. Ins., fasc. 149. 
pp. 66—67, 1913. Fletcher, Mem. Agr. Ind., Ent., vol. 11, p. 159, 1929. Diakonoff. 
Zool. Meded. Mus. Leiden, vol. 31, p. 170, 1952. 
Head with appressed scales. Ocellus posterior. Proboscis moderate. Antenna 
strongly ciliate in male. Palpus long, porrect, median segment arched upwards, 
with dense, rather appressed scales, terminal segment in male moderate, in female 
long. Thorax without crest. Fore wing without costal fold, with tufts of scales on 
surface, lb furcate at base, 2 from slightly beyond middle of lower edge of cell, 
3 from angle, 7 separate, to termen, 8 approximated to 7, 11 from somewhat before 
