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MICROLEPIDOETEHA OF NEW GUINEA 
Key to the species of Metachorista 
1. Markings jet-black, partially edged with orange-ochreous 2 
Markings not thus 3 
2. Ground colour whitish, tinged pale greenish-yellow. Fore wing broad, subovate 
hierophantis spec. nov. 
Ground colour white. Fore wing rather narrow, subtriangular, pointed . . . 
megalophrys spec. nov. 
3. A conspicuous dark crescentic spot in disc, or a narrow rectangularly bent fascia 
with extremities well, or not reaching costa 4 
Discal markings indefinite, or a weak sinuate fascia present, running from middle 
of cell to tornus mesata spec. nov. 
4. A distinct small spot in disc above base of dorsum, dark edged and slightly 
indent above Ursula Meyrick 
Spot at base of dorsum marginal and elongate, or absent 5 
6. Ground colour light ochreous; an angulate blackish fascia on upper half of 
wing, with both extremities reaching costa deltophora spec. nov. 
Ground colour whitish, strigulated with pale ochreous or irrorated with ochreous- 
greyish or ochreous-fuscous 6 
6. An angulate blackish streak on upper half of wing, only with its posterior arm 
reaching costa, bent, often connected with dorsum by a greyish suffusion . . 
refracta spec. nov. 
A crescentic discal mark 7 
7. Costal dots triangular, black, equal austera spec. nov. 
Costal dots rounded, suffused greyish-fuscous below, that before middle of 
costa largest loepa spec. nov. 
Metachorista hierophantis spec. nov. (figs. 404, 405, 412) 
IsQotpdvTiQ = a priestess 
20 mm. Head white, collar black. Antenna black, cilia white, scape 
white above. Palpus black (terminal segment missing). Thorax black, 
irrorated with pale yellow-whitish, edged posteriorly except at apex with 
pale yellow-whitish, tegula pale yellowish with anterior half orange, 
shoulder black. Abdomen pale fuscous-whitish, venter dark fuscous, a 
row of lateral and of ventral pale ochreous-whitish short bands, valva 
dark fuscous, edged whitish. Legs: anterior and median leg black, whitish 
at inner side, posterior leg whitish, densely suffused with grey and blackish. 
Fore wing elongate-subovate, moderately broad, dilated; costa con- 
siderably curved anteriorly, less curved towards apex, faintly concave in 
middle, slightly projecting at - l / 4 and 3 / 4 ; apex subacute, termen hardly 
sinuate, oblique. Pale sulphur- whitish, markings black mixed with orange 
and lilac-fulvous. A semiovate patch on basal 1 / 6 of costa, with an orange 
dot in its middle just below costa,, centred with black; a moderate orange 
streak along 2 / 3 of lower edge of this patch ; patch connected below poste- 
riorly with a transverse moderate oblique second patch reaching to fold, 
with upper half triangidarly dilated, slightly bifid above, lower part 
rounded; this second patch mixed above middle and below with orange; 
an elongate-semiovate moderate patch on costa before middle, interrupted 
