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MIGROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
anteriorly, a minute dark fuscous transverse strigula on end of fold; a 
series of preterminal suffused dark fuscous dots from below costa to tornus, 
strongly angulate in middle of disc; a suffused whitish dot beyond this 
series, in tornus; a moderate somewhat suffused dark fuscous terminal 
fascia, from apex to tornus. Cilia with basal half dark fuscous, finely 
barred with white, anterior half white with a faint greyish preapical line. 
Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 connate ; greyish-white, infuscated posteriorly, 
apical and upper half of terminal edge irregularly suffused with fuscous. 
Cilia whitish with a faint greyish median shade. 
Ostium complicated, forming a very large erect bag with retinate or 
embossed surface, upper half dilated, with several lateral folds; ostium 
proper moderate, surrounded by a circular fold, below ostium a longi- 
tudinal impression in the wall of the bag. Bursa copulatrix long. Signa 
i7-shaped, with slender, little curved legs and a sclerotized transverse bar, 
with moderate lateral projections, and a blunt and short median process. 
(Slide No. 837 D, type). 
Moss Forest Camp, 2600 — 2800 m, October 9 — November 5, 1938. 
One specimen. 
Meridarchis melanantha spec. nov. 
jUsAag = black, avdog = a gem 
cJ 18 mm. Head whitish. Palpus dark fuscous, white on inner side; 
median segment w'ith white apical half of upper edge and apex; apical 
half of terminal segment also wdiite. Antenna fuscous, scape white. Thorax 
whitish mixed with fuscous, shoulder blackish-brown. (Abdomen missing). 
Fore wing with veins 3 and 4 separate; narrowly elongate, dilated poste- 
riorly; costa scarcely curved at base, straight posteriorly, apex long, 
subacute; termen slightly sinuate, very oblique. Whitish, densely strewn 
with fine and larger fight fuscous dots, especially posteriorly; a moderate 
basal patch, blackish-brown, suffused with fight fuscous on anterior half, 
with edge very oblique, slightly angulate on vein 12 and in fold; a large 
thick dark blackish-brown crescentic discal mark from below' costa at 1 / 3 , 
running above fold to before 3 / 4 of costa, concave above; anterior extremity 
of this mark u 7 ell-defined, regularly rounded, posterior half dilated and 
suffused, edged below by three patches, and posteriorly edged by a ridge 
of raised scales of ground colour; a subquadrate moderate dot on costa 
at 2 / a , two smaller dots close together on middle of costa, a smaller dot 
before apex, a moderate discal dot below second costal, touching crescentic 
mark : all dark blackish-brown ; a faint fulvous suffusion along lower and 
posterior edges of crescentic mark; a series of indistinct elongate dark 
brown dots along apical and terminal edge. Cilia pale greyish-ochreous, 
a median and a preapical row of dark grey indistinct small bars. Hind 
