MICROLEPIDOPTERA OE NEW GUINEA 
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whitish, irroratcd with pale greyish-fuscous, median segment with a darker 
fuscous median dot above. Thorax whitish suffused with pale ochreous- 
grevish, posterior crest white. Abdomen pale ochreous-greyish. Legs pale 
brownish-ochreous, anterior tibia and tarsus dark fuscous, pale-ringed. 
Fore wing elongate, little dilated, costa moderately curved anteriorly, 
straight posteriorly, apex subobtuse, termen moderately sinuate, oblique, 
tufts distinct. Whitish, irrorated with light ochreous and pale grey, 
suffused with grey, marked with black. Extreme base of costa suffused 
with grey, basal patch suffused with pale ochreous and greyish, edge 
strongly outwardly oblique, with a triangular black dot on costa, below 
this formed by a narrow irroration of black scales suffused with greyish- 
fuscous anteriorly, with an angulate black projection in fold, obliterate 
below this; a small black dot on costa beyond basal patch and a larger 
w edge-shaped one at 1 / 4 , slightly suffused with grey below, almost connected 
with a thick crescentic mark in middle of cell which is concave above, 
black, edged anteriorly and below with tawny-fuscous; a round greyish- 
tawny dot on middle of costa, edged with black, followed by a smaller 
black costal dot; costal markings alternating with minute black points; 
a moderate grey suffusion along dorsum from beyond base to 2 / 3 , slightly 
transversely strigulated with darker grey, dilated posteriorly and touching 
discal mark above middle of fold; plical tuft moderate, white anteriorly, 
suffused with tawny posteriorly; a cloudy patch of dark grey irroration 
below s / 4 of costa., not reaching discal mark, irrorated with black points 
that are almost confluent with three black dots on costa; these dots 
followed by two fuscous points on costa before apex; two irregularly 
rounded spots: in tornus and before middle of termen, respectively, pale 
tawny -greyish, edge slightly irrorated with blackish; termen with minute 
marginal brownish streaks on veins, dorsal edge dotted with blackish. 
Cilia whitish, barred with pale grey, an antemedian row of minute dark 
fuscous points. Hind w ing and cilia white, with a pale ochreous gloss. 
Limen less angularly bent than in the preceding species, narrower, 
constricted in middle. Ventral plate below ostium smaller. Colliculum 
larger, less sclerotized. Ductus bursae tortuous, very narrow. Bursa 
copulatrix spheroid. Signum, a narrow curved sclerotized ridge. Eighth 
tergite forming an almost cylindrical collar. Ovipositor slender, upper half 
erect, narrow, lower half moderately curved. (Slide No. 743 D). 
Mist Camp, 1800 m, January 8, 1939. One specimen. Closely allied to 
the preceding. 
Metachorista mesata spec. nov. (fig. 421) 
/zeaazog = the middle one 
$ 16 — 20 mm. Head and thorax pale grey, tegula sometimes irrorated 
with darker grey. Palpus whitish irrorated with pale fuscous or white, 
median segment except above and at apex, and terminal segment basally, 
