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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OP NEW GUINEA 
faintly impressed in middle, almost straight, moderately oblique. Isabel- 
colour, markings jet-black, rather variable in details, in holotype as 
follows. A small dot on base of costa, closely followed by a transverse 
oblique elongate-wedge-shaped patch, reaching slightly below fold, with 
posterior edge concave above; followed by a small triangular costal dot; 
an irregular undulate transverse patch from 1 / s of costa to fold, outwardly 
oblique, narrowed below costa, dilated below this, with posterior edge 
curved, anterior edge indent; an inwardly oblique erect-ovate broader 
patch on 1 / 5 of dorsum to fold, top slightly posterior, almost touching 
preceding; a subtriangular, somewhat erect moderate mark on middle of 
costa, with posterior lower angle elongate, pointing towards tornus 
(sometimes clavate), preceded and followed by a costal dot, and a smaller 
dot in disc below this dot; an irregular elongate patch in middle of disc, 
with upper edge serrate, extremities acutely projecting, rising ; its posterior 
extremity almost connected with costal mark, anterior with costal dot- 
before that mark (sometimes two small dots of ground colour in middle 
of this discal mark) ; of this elongate patch lower edge connected anteriorly 
with anterior angle of a subquadrate slightly inwards-oblique patch on 
dorsum beyond middle, which is centred with one or two irregular spots 
of ground colour (posterior angle of dorsal patch sometimes connected with 
preterminal mark) ; preterminal mark large, slender, irregularly H-shaped, 
with anterior branch angulate below the transverse bar, and running 
obliquely to tornus; posterior arm of the H slightly outwards-concave, 
from termen just above tornus to vein 8 before apex; a moderate semi- 
circular line representing costal patch, beyond 4 / 5 of costa, reaching to 
vein 8, almost touching H-shaped mark anteriorly; a triangular dot on 
costa before apex, followed by a minute point before, and one below 
apex; a narrow wedge-shaped dot in tornus; minute black points along 
termen; a broad streak of dark grey suffusion along dorsum, in middle 
reaching to vein lb, along dorsal edge mixed with whitish, and dotted 
with black. Cilia white, suffused with dark grey towards tornus, and in 
tornus; an antemedian row of black points becoming moderate patches 
in tornus and below apex; costal cilia with two black bars. Hind wing 
dark blackish-grey; cilia grey, suffused with whitish around apex; basal 
third dark grey throughout. 
Tegumen elongate. Uncus strong, hook short, ending in a strongly 
bristled knob, with a curved point below this knob. Socius small, slender, 
one row of bristles. Gnathos with broad arms, which are abruptly dilated 
before top and form transverse plates : top short, triangular, short-dentate. 
Transtilla membraneous, plicate, rising. Valva with costa broad, semiovate, 
cucullus oblique; sacculus bristled anteriorly, with a projecting sharp 
point in middle, deeply excavate beyond this, ending in a clavate, haired 
projection with a large spheroid pad at base. Aedoeagus moderate, top 
curved downward. Anellus dilated into a large sclerotized, short-haired 
plate around aedoeagus. (Slide No. 730 D, holotype). 
