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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
light orange-brownish, markings black and light fuscous-grey. Base of 
costal edge black; a moderate transverse streak from costa beyond base 
to below' fold, with anterior edge twice excavate, with a rounded projection 
in middle and an acute one in fold: black on costa and along margins, 
irrorated with grey-brownish elsewhere; about eight triangular black 
costal dots, an oblique series of black scales from below r first of these dots 
to fold; an elongate black patch in middle of cell, with upper edge deeply 
triangularly indent, anterior extremity rounded, suffused with greyish- 
fuscous; this extremity almost connected with a wedge-shaped oblique 
transverse mark of blackish and brown irroration, originating from second 
costal dot, with posterior extremity to before 3 / 5 of wing length; this 
transverse mark truncate, well-defined, with upper angle connected with 
a line of black irroration, curved and running upw'ard, then downward 
around and much beyond posterior end of cell, filled above with grey; 
lower part of transverse mark vertical, reaching to an erect-ovate spot 
in tornus; this spot greyish-fuscous, black-edged; third and fourth costal 
dots with wedge-shaped transverse marks of blackish and brownish 
irroration below', first mark to upper edge of cell, second one to dark 
discal markings; fifth and sixth costal dots together with an irregular 
longitudinal mark below costa form a small costal patch; last mentioned 
longitudinal mark connected with sixth costal dot by a streak of grey 
suffusion; an elongate spot before middle of termen, slightly constricted 
in middle, with truncate extremities; this spot irrorated with brownish, 
black-edged except above and below; dorsum from beyond base to before 
tornus with a series of coarse transverse blotches of dark grey irroration, 
more or less confluent, becoming longer tow-ards middle of wing, not 
reaching cell; tufts strongly raised; w hite anteriorly, dark greyish-fuscous 
posteriorly; terminal edge with a narrow, interrupted blackish-brown line. 
Cilia whitish, mixed along posterior 2 / 3 with dark grey, a zigzag blackish 
antemedian line, blackish bars on costal cilia. Hind wing and cilia glossy 
white, faintly touched with pale yellowish. 
Limen bent twice, trapezoid: forming a median transverse finely 
scobinate pad with lower angles rounded and projecting, and lateral rods, 
w'hich are narrowed above. Ostium with an ovate transverse ventral plate. 
Ductus bursae narrow, long. Colliculum small, asymmetrical. Bursa 
copulatrix spheroid. Signum, a large concave plate. Eighth tergite forms 
a triangular collar with lower angles acutely narrowed. Ovipositor lobe 
with triangular, pointed upper half, lower half elongate, curved. Anus 
with two dorsal rising projections. (Slide No. 742 D). 
Moss Forest Camp, five km northeast of Lake Habbema, 2800 m, 
October 26, 1938. One specimen. Allied to M. Ursula Meyrick. 
Metachorista loepa spec. nov. (figs. 417, 418) 
Xoitioq — remaining 
$ 15.5 mm. Head white, slightly mixed with light greyish-fuscous. Palpus 
