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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
suffused with blackish-fuscous. Abdomen pale ochreous. Legs pale ochreous, 
anterior tibia and tarsus dark fuscous, pale-ringed. Whitish, tinged pale 
ochreous, transversely strigulated and marbled with grey and bright 
ochreous, markings ochreous and black. Costa slightly suffused with grey 
anteriorly and marked throughout with a row of nine round blackish-grey 
dots becoming larger and triangular posteriorly; basal patch indicated by 
a narrow oblique blackish line from beyond base of costa to below fold, 
filled with ochreous; a black point in disc beyond preceding, a round 
ochreous dot above 1 / 3 of dorsum, narrowly edged with black; a few 
blackish dots below middle of costa, slightly suffused with grey; a small 
oblique transverse patch in middle of cell, blackish or ochreous, black- 
edged, continued by an oblique line of black irroration to fold, coarse 
black transverse strigulation along posterior half of fold, more or less 
mixed with bright ochreous; discal tuft forming a dark grey rounded spot 
on end of cell, preceded by an inwardly oblique line of black scales suffused 
with ochreous, from lower edge of cell to below 4 / 5 of costa; a patch of 
bright ochreous suffusion around discal tuft posteriorly and between this 
and fold, with posterior edge mixed with black irroration and forming 
two strongly rounded projections, above and beneath, respectively; some- 
times ochreous suffusion less distinct, replaced by blackish irroration; a 
faint grey suffusion below 4 / 5 of costa and a wedge-shaped ochreous streak 
from costa, pointing towards middle of terrnen; an elongate transverse 
preterminal mark from vein 4 to 7, parallel to termen, lower end clavate, 
upper truncate: ochreous, edged with black, except above, sometimes 
interrupted; dorsum below vein lb from beyond base to tornus, and 
terminal fourth of wing, transversely strigulated with grey. Cilia pale 
whitish-ochreous, a minute brownish antemedian line with a row of small 
triangular black dots. Hind wing and cilia whitish with a distinct pale 
yellowish gloss, stronger posteriorly; veins 3 and 4 closely approximated 
in paratype. 
Limen forming a broad fine-haired ovate median pad with convex upper 
edge, and a small pocket-like fold at each side of upper edge. Colliculum 
absent. Ductus bursae short, with a broad cestum before middle. Bursa 
ovoid. Signum, a moderate hollow horn. Eighth tergite sub triangular. 
Ovipositor lobe elongate, thickened. (Slides No. 746 D, holotype, No. 745D, 
paratype). 
Moss Forest Camp, 1800 m, October 18, 1938 (paratype), October 15, 
1938 (holotype). T wo females. Allied to M. ursula Meyrick. 
Diactenis Meyrick, 1907 (figs. 383, 384, 385) 
Diactenis Meyrick, 1907, Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc., vol. 17, pp. 979-980. 
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, vol. 35, p. 281, 1910. Lepid. Catal., fasc. 10, p. 50, 
1912. Gener. Ins., fasc. 149, p. 48, pi. 3, fig. 35, pi. 5, figs. 71a, b, 1913. Fletcher, 
Mem. Agr. Ind., Ent., vol. 11, p. 66, 1929. Diakonoff, Zool. Meded. Mus. Leiden, 
vol. 21, pp. 234-235, figs. 19 A (gen. <J), B (gen. $), C (neur.), D (head), 1939. 
