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MICROLEPIDOPTEEA OP NEW GUINEA 
Limen forming a small transverse line-haired pad in middle laterally 
with a — |-shaped chitinous scobinate rod. Eighth tergite erect, narrowed 
ventrad. Ovipositor slender, lobes with erect tops, pressed against each 
other. Ductus bursae extremely narrow, long. Bursa copulatrix spheroid. 
Signum, a triangular concave plate. (Slide No. 737 D, allotype). 
Moss Forest Camp, five km northeast of Lake Habbema, 2800 m, 
October 91, 1938 (holotype, male), October 15 — 26, 1938. Lake Habbema, 
3250 — 3300 m, August 26, 1938 (allotype, female), end July — end August, 
1938. Two males, seven females. Male genitalia of the Schoenotenes type. 
Metachorista refracta spec. nov. (fig. 408) 
18 mm, $ 20 mm. Head and thorax white, mixed with pale greyish- 
ochreous, thorax in male suffused with black, less so in centre, tegula with 
a black tip. Palpus white, median segment suffused with blackish except 
at apex; terminal segment with a median blackish band, or with blackish 
basal half. Abdomen pale ochreous (in male missing). Legs pale ochreous, 
anterior tibia and tarsus blackish, white-ringed. Fore wing with distinct 
tufts : above x / 3 of dorsum, and on closing vein ; elongate-subovate, rather 
narrow, dilated ; costa moderately curved anteriorly, hardly so posteriorly, 
apex subacute, termen faintly sinuate, considerably oblique. White, faintly 
suffused with pale greyish-ochreous, transversely strigulated with light 
greyish-ochreous or light ochreous; markings black and light ochreous or 
brownish. Extreme base of costa blackish; seven small black dots from 
beyond base to beyond 3 / 4 of costa, alternating with minute black points 
and pale greyish-ochreous transverse strigulae; base of wing more or less 
suffused with ochreous; a black patch irrorated with whitish from base to 
1 / 3 of dorsum, above reaching to fold, well-defined, truncate posteriorly; 
a narrow marginal light ochreous streak along base of dorsum; in male 
black patch obliterate except for a narrow inwardly oblique black line at 
x / 4 of dorsum; a black narrow streak from middle of upper edge of cell to 
3 / 4 of its lower edge, rectangularly bent or interrupted there, thence to 
beyond 3 / 4 of costa, turning brownish towards bent in male; this streak 
interrupted in bent by a spot of light ochreous suffusion, which is connected 
with fold in male by brownish, in female by light ochreous suffusion; a 
rectangular spot on middle of dorsum, in male of grey suffusion irrorated 
with black along fold, in female black ; discal streak towards costa slightly 
dilated, edged posteriorly with light ochreous suffusion, furcate just below 
costa and terminating in two costal black dots; dorsum below vein lb 
transversely strigulated with grey; transverse pale greyish-ochreous 
strigulation becoming more distinct posteriorly and also forming a slender 
erect spot in tornus and an irregular transverse mark before upper 2 / 3 
of termen; two minute transverse strigulae in apex. Cilia white, a faint 
interrupted greyish antemedian line. Hind wing glossy white, edge 
posteriorly faintly tinged ochreous, cilia white. 
