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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
Tegumeu narrow, elongate. Uncus strong, hooked in middle, hook with 
truncate short-bristled top, strongly dilated so as to form a large pending 
lobe at each side. Socius elongate, marginal. Gnathos short, almost paired: 
arms angulate and dilated below middle, ending in a curved point, 
connected with each other by a transverse membraneous band. Transtilla 
strong, slightly bent. Valva ovate, costa strongly haired, apex obtusely 
pointed, a small discal projection below apex, cucullus strongly oblique, 
sacculus narrow, 1 / 3 , top projecting. Aedoeagus moderate, pistol-shaped. 
Cornuti, two rows of short teeth. Anellus, a circular plate (Slide No. 732 D, 
liolotype). 
Limen, a strong sclerotized transverse band, upper edge with two 
pocket-like folds ventraily. Ostium narrow, tubular below, with a strong 
sclerotized piece at one side. Colliculum indicated as a subcylindrical, 
finely scobinate portion. Ductus bursae narrow. Bursa simple. Eighth 
segment forming a swollen triangular collar dorsally, plicate ventraily, 
fine-haired. Ovipositor lobe narrow. (Slide No. 734 D, allotype). 
Iebele Camp, 2250 m. November 28, 1938 (liolotype, male), November 7, 
1938 (allotype, female). Two males, one female. Rattan Camp, 1200 m, 
February — March, 1939. One female. 
Oligotenes chrysoteuches spec. nov. (figs. 400, 406) 
yovaorcv'/j'i^ = in golden armour 
£ 21 — 24 mm, $ 24 — 26 mm. Head and thorax pale ochreous, mixed 
with ochreous-yellow. Antenna dark fuscous in male, paler in female, 
scape pale ochreous. Palpus dark fuscous, terminal segment pale ochreous, 
more or less mixed with fuscous. Abdomen whitish, tinged brownish, in 
male with a lateral streak and the pregenital ventrite : blackish. Legs pale 
ochreous-brownish, anterior tibia and tarsus, and median tibia dark 
fuscous, pale-ringed, median tarsus with a basal dark fuscous ring. Fore 
wing elongate-subtri angul ar , broader in male; costa moderately curved 
anteriorly, less so posteriorly, in male rather straight in middle; apex 
subobtuse, termen gently sinuate, moderately oblique, more so in female. 
Pale whitish -yellowish, in male whitish anteriorly, irrorated, retinate and 
partially suffused, with bright ochreous-yellow; markings bright ochreous, 
and greyish -brown, mixed with brownish-black. A large, triangular patch 
on base of costa except base of wing below costa, reaching slightly below 
fold: deep yellowish-ochreous; a narrow oblique transverse line from 
costa beyond base, a suffusion along fold, and a transverse mark along 
posterior edge, brownish-black, last, mentioned mark strongly dilated 
below costa so as to form an erect-ovate dark patch, with posterior edge 
slightly serrate; a moderate, semiovate, slightly outwardly oblique spot 
on costa before middle, reaching to upper edge of cell: yellowish-ochreous, 
edged and parted by blackish irroration; a greyish-brown sickle-shaped 
mark in disc, beginning with a blackish point just below middle of fold, 
