MICROLEPIDOPTERA OE NEW GUINEA 
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wing with veins 3 and 4 remote; white, glossy, edge finely darker; cilia 
dirty whitish-ochreous. 
Moss Forest Camp, five km northeast of Lake Habbema, 2800 m, 
November 2, 1938. One specimen. Allied to M. picroscopa Meyrick. 
Meridarchis melanopsacas spec. nov. (figs. 514, 515) 
[xekag = black, xpaxag = small piece 
$ 21 mm. Head whitish. Palpus rather long, median segment roughly 
tufted at base above and at apex beneath; blackish, posterior half of 
median segment above, and terminal segment white sprinkled with black. 
Thorax dark fuscous with an antemedian, and a postmedian suffused 
white band, anteriorly edged with pale fuscous. Antenna whitish, flagellum 
ringed with fuscous. Abdomen whitish. Legs whitish, anterior tarsus 
suffused with dark fuscous except on articulations. Fore wing with veins 3 
and 4 connate; elongate-subovate, little dilated, costa gently curved 
anteriorly, straight posteriorly, apex subacute, termen slightly sinuate, 
very oblique. Whitish, strewn with dark fuscous scales. Base of costa 
with a subovate suffused dark fuscous spot; a moderate elongate dark 
fuscous costal dot at 2 / 5 , three smaller dots closer together along about 
second fourth, two small points before apex; a conspicuous blackish- 
fuscous streak along posterior half of lower edge of cell, continued along 
closing vein to below costa, filled with dark brownish-fuscous suffusion 
above, so as to form an invert triangle in cell in middle of disc; lower edge 
of this triangle anteriorly with two tufts of raised scales, with anterior 
half dark fuscous, posterior half white, a third such tuft below fold at 
about 1 / 5 ; posterior edge of triangle with a transverse ridge of raised white 
scales along closing vein ; a narrow outwardly oblique dark fuscous strigula 
from top of discal triangle along end of fold to dorsum; dorsum before 
this strigula suffused with fuscous, especially at 1 / 6 ; apical and terminal 
seventh of wing suffused with fuscous, except on costa between first and 
second preapical points; anterior edge of this suffusion oblique, angulate 
in middle, running to tornus and to end of fold; this suffusion preceded 
by a broad transverse band of whitish ground colour, only sparsely 
scattered with dark fuscous scales ; terminal edge with a series of suffused 
small triangular dots on ends of veins. Cilia whitish, barred with greyish- 
fuscous along basal half, a faint dark apical line. Hind wing with veins 3 
and 4 stalked; whitish, slightly touched with smoky -greyish posteriorly; 
cilia whitish. 
Ostium weak, simple, marked by a curved moderate limen. Ductus 
bursae finely scobinate. Bursa copulatrix large. Signa strong, slender, each 
formed by two blades with slightly serrate inner side, with narrow, gently 
curved points. (Slide No. 839 D, type). 
Moss Forest Camp, 2600 m, October 17, 1938. One specimen. Allied to 
M. syncolleta Meyrick, 1928, from the Andaman Islands. 
