MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
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(holotype, male), October 25, 1938. One male, three females. Unfortunately 
all the specimens lack the abdomen. Allied to the preceding. 
Metachorista Ursula Meyrick, 1938 (figs. 376, 377, 407, 424, 425) 
Metacliorista Ursula Meyrick, 1938, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., vol. 87, p. 510. 
Distribution: New Guinea, Papua: Mount Kokoda, 1200 feet. 
Lake Habbema, 3250 — 3300 m, end July — end August, 1938. Moss 
Forest Camp, five km northeast of Lake Habbema, 2800 m, October 9 — 
November 15, 1938. lebele Camp, 2250 m, November 18, 1938. Eight 
males, fourteen females. A considerably varying species, distinct by the 
angulate discal streak which is suffused below, noth this suffusion more or 
less extended; its upper edge is well-defined and encloses a small angular 
spot of the ground colour. A moderate subbasal spot above dorsum, with 
indent upper edge, also forms a good characteristic; this mark is but 
seldom absent. 
Tegumen strong. Uncus rather narrow, hooked, top dilated, truncate, 
short-bristled. Socius absent. Hamus strong, base dilated, a moderate 
projection before middle, top narrow, curved. Gnathos a curved strong 
rod, constricted in middle, bases dilated. Transtilla slender, narrow. Valva 
truncate, costa with a bristled projection posteriorly; saccullus strong, 
narrow, ending in a large pad covered noth pencil-like flattened bristles. 
Aedoeagus short, angulate. Cornuti, a strong spine and a sinuate patch of 
fine bristles. (Slide No. 750 D). 
Seventh segment strongly sclerotized, fine-haired, ventrite broad, upper 
edge angularly projecting at the sides, with two oblique diverging folds in 
middle, lower edge with a rectangular prominence. Ostium with an ovate 
ventral lobe. Ductus bursae wide along basal half, with a dilatation in 
middle, narrow beyond this. Bursa copulatrix ovoid. Signum, a moderate, 
hollow knob. Eighth tergite forming a high collar. Ovipositor lobe slender, 
long, very narrow. (Slides No. 739 D, No. 738 D). 
Metachorista austera spec. nov. (fig. 419) 
avaTijQog = austere 
$ 19 mm. Head white, side tufts mixed with black. Palpus brownish 
mixed with black; apex of median segment white; terminal segment 
white, with a black median ring. Thorax whitish mixed with grey and 
black, shoulder suffused with blackish; tegula white mixed with light 
brownish-orange. Abdomen pale ochreous. Legs white, anterior tibia and 
tarsus black, white-ringed, median tibia with a black basal ring, median 
tarsus ringed with black. Fore wing elongate-subtriangular ; costa moder- 
ately curved anteriorly, slightly impressed beyond middle, little curved 
before apex, apex subobtuse; termen almost straight, slightly convex 
above, oblique. White, faintly tinged ochreous, irrorated and retinate with 
