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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
costa beyond 1 / 3 , and below middle, respectively, and one larger, below 
first subcostal patch, above fold; a faint subtriangular suffused dark 
fuscous spot on end of fold; a broad suffused preterminal transverse fascia, 
blackish-grey with bronze gloss, originating from two ultimate costal spots 
and apex and running to tornus, narrowed below and slightly barred above 
middle anteriorly with white; a series of five interneural triangular 
blackish-grey marginal dots from apex to tornus; dark fuscous scales 
scattered irregularly along fold, and on posterior half of wing. Cilia pale 
ochreous, basal half suffusedlv barred with fuscaus, a preapical fuscous 
line. Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 stalked ; white, glossy, towards apex 
faintly tinged greyish; cilia white tinged pale ochreous. 
Ostium, a sclerotized wide cylinder, with retinate wall ; upper edge with 
two cuspidate projections ventrally, dorsally produced in a long projection 
with a longitudinal ventral split. Ductus bursae finely retinate. Bursa 
copulatrix simple. (Slide No. 835, holotype). 
Moss Forest Camp, five km northeast of Lake Habbema, 2800 m, 
October 15, 1938 (holotype). Top Camp, 2100 m, January 22, 1939. Two 
specimens. Allied to M. eremitis Meyrick. 
Meridarchis capnographa spec. nov. (figs. 502, 503) 
yarn’d; = smoke, yod’poj = to write 
$ 23 mm. Head whitish, vertex with a semicircular fuscous mark. Palpus 
rather long, terminal segment drooping; blackish-fuscous, upper edge of 
median, and tip of terminal segment white. Antenna with scape whitish, 
ringed with dark fuscous; flagellum faintly ringed with fuscous. Thorax 
dark fuscous mixed with whitish. Abdomen whitish, venter with four 
dark fuscous spots posteriorly. Legs dark fuscous, ringed with dirty 
ochreous-whitish ; posterior leg whitish mixed with fuscous. Fore wing 
with veins 7 and 8 short-stalked, 3 and 4 separate; very narrowly elongate, 
little dilated; costa little curved at base, straight posteriorly, apex sub- 
acute, termen sinuate, oblique. Rather dark brownish-fuscous, scattered 
with whitish scales, especially along costa; a darker semiovate patch on 
basal sixth of costa; a slightly suffused elongate blackish costal spot at 
3 / 4 ; followed by four smaller dots along posterior half, first of them just 
before middle; a larger fuscous transverse dot before apex; a large 
elongate-ovate, white-edged, transverse, inwardly oblique patch over 
middle of disc before 1 j i , followed by a small pale ochreous patch of raised 
scales above fold; another similar patch, larger, above fold beyond 2 / 6 , 
edged above and beneath by a short horizontal blackish streak, and below 
also edged with white; two small, white-edged, round blackish dots 
somewhat obliquely below costa before middle of wing; a large round 
patch of raised pale golden-ochreous scales on end of cell above middle 
of disc, white-edged and marked with dark fuscous above and below; a 
broad white-edged slightly suffused whitish-fuscous spot, connecting the last 
mentioned patch with posterior 1 / 5 of dorsum ; dorsum somewhat paler except 
