MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
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blackish towards apex above. Palpus dark fuscous-brown, in male terminal 
segment with white tip, in female median segment mixed with white 
above posteriorly. Thorax whitish-ochreous mixed with bright ochreous- 
yellow, suffused anteriorly with dark fuscous-brown or brownish, a 
fuscous-brown central spot, posterior crest pale whitish-ochreous. Abdomen 
whitish-fuscous, in male valva with a dark fuscous round lateral spot, in 
female venter with a lateral streak and with pregenital segment dark 
fuscous. Legs pale ochreous, anterior and median tibia and tarsus dark 
fuscous, pale-ringed, median leg with fuscous bands. Fore wing in male 
elongate-subovate, in female elongate-subtriangular, dilated; costa in male 
curved anteriorly, straight in middle, slightly bent before apex; costa in 
female more curved anteriorly, straight posteriorly; apex subobtuse, 
termen gently rounded, little oblique. Whitish, in male densely suffused 
with bright ochreous-yellow ; in female suffused and retinate with less 
bright ochreous, slightly tinged greyish posteriorly; markings in male 
rather dark fuscous, in female brown, these markings slightly irrorated 
with blackish -brown towards dorsum, dotted with blackish along costa. 
A large triangular patch on base of costa occupying more than */ 4 of wing, 
top of patch pointing towards middle of disc, reaching to below fold, 
lower edge of patch with a row of dark brown dots, posterior edge with 
a slight excavation above middle; ground colour forming a streak along 
base of dorsum to base of wing below costa; a moderate regularly 
semiovate spot on middle of costa, slightly larger and more erect in male, 
preceded and followed by a small costal dot, in male ground colour between 
this and basal patch whitish; a large prostrate Y-shaped patch in middle 
of disc, with top occupying posterior half of cell, slightly rounded ante- 
riorly, arms of the V broad, gradually curved, in male narrowly anasto- 
mosing with preceding costal mark; upper arm running to 3 / 4 of costa, 
slightly triangularly dilated there, with posterior edge bearing a short 
angulate projection just beyond discal tuft in male, slightly angulate 
beyond this tuft in female; lower arm of the V-shaped patch curved 
downward to dorsum before tornus, in male rather suffused, in female 
broader, irrorated with blackish-brown; a large erect-ovate well-defined 
preterminal patch, with base abruptly narrowed, acute, on termen above 
tornus, top of this patch rounded or with a minute projection anteriorly, 
in male almost touching preceding mark below costa; two small dots on 
costa before apex, ultimate one almost apical; termen with a dentate 
marginal dark fuscous streak, less distinct in female; plical tuft whitish 
anteriorly, brown posteriorly, discal white; ground colour along margins 
of markings less suffused or retinate with ochreous-yellow, markings 
appearing wliitish-edged. Cilia fuscous, basal half in male with a row of 
interconnected blackish-fuscous blotches, base whitish fuscous, basal half 
of cilia in female dark fuscous with a whitish basal line. Hind wfing 
whitish, faintly marbled posteriorly with pale fuscous; cilia pale fuscous- 
whitish, with an interrupted pale fuscous antemedian shade. 
