MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
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Limen broad, deeply excavate in middle, forming two rounded laterally 
fine-haired pads, and a moderate selerotized transverse plate in middle. 
Ductus bursae broad, wall selerotized, except towards extremities. 
Colliculum small. Signum, a rounded small plate with a hollow projection. 
A narrow transverse haired fold above ostium. Ovipositor subtubular, 
lobe rather broad, hardly narrowed in middle. (Slide No. 744 D, holotype). 
Moss Forest Camp, five km northeast of Lake Habbema, 2800 m, 
October 15, 1938 (holotype, female), Top Camp, 2100 m, January 26, 
1938 (allotype, male). Two specimens. 
Metachorista deltophora spec. nov. 
(if Am = letter delta, cptnoi = to bear 
14.5 mm, $ 16 — 18 mm. Head and thorax w r hite, tinged with pale 
orange-ochreous in female. Palpus rather short ; whitish, densely irrorated 
with fuscous-blackish, terminal segment with whitish base, less irrorated 
in female. Antenna ringed with fuscous-grey, scape white, tinged pale 
ochreous-orange. (Abdomen missing in both sexes). Legs whitish, anterior 
and median tibia and tarsus ringed with dark fuscous. Fore wing elongate- 
subtriangular, narrow; costa little curved anteriorly, more so in male, 
straight posteriorly, apex pointed; termen straight in male, sinuate in 
female, considerably oblique. Pale yellowish-whitish, suffused and irrorated 
with light orange-ochreous, markings black and pale greyish-fuscous. An 
angulate transverse fascia from costa beyond base to above base of 
dorsum, black above and beneath, with a rounded pale greyish-fuscous 
patch in middle, which is narrowly edged with black anteriorly; a small 
group of black scales on costa beyond this fascia, minute points below 
this group in an oblique series across disc, and a rounded small dot below 
fold before 1 / 4 of wing; a slender, slightly undulate fascia, running from 
before x / 4 of costa to 2 / 3 of costa, almost rectangularly bent in middle; 
angle of fascia with a short projection below reaching to middle of fold; 
this fascia slightly dilated just above cell posteriorly and forming an 
angulate moderate projection below, strongly constricted or interrupted 
above this; fascia black, anterior half mixed with brownish below costa 
and on bent, posterior half below' costa greyish, edged with black; a large 
rounded dot on costa before middle: black mixed with dark brown, 
preceded and followed by moderate and by minute costal points; a 
rounded spot above tornus and an erect-ovate spot before middle of 
termen: light greyish-fuscous, narrowly edged with black: three black 
dots on costa before apex, some three black points along dorsum. Cilia 
white touched with yellowish, tip suffused with pale grey, a submedian 
row of triangular black dots. Hind wing and cilia glossy pale yellowish- 
white. 
Moss Forest Camp, 2800 m, October 9 — November 5, 1938 (allotype, 
female). Five km northeast of Lake Habbema, 2800 m, October 13, 1938 
