MICROLEPIDOPTERA OE NEW GUINEA 
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(allotype, female). Lake Habbema, 3250 — 3300 m, August 19, 1938 
(holotype, male), August 24, 1938. One male, two females. Allied to 
M. erebolimnas Meyrick, 1938. 
Meridarchis niphoptila Meyrick, 1930 
Meridarchis niphoptila Meyrick 1930, Exot. Microl., vol. 3, p. 588. 
Distribution: British New Guinea, Mount Goliath, 6000 feet. 
Sigi Camp, 1500 m, February 26, 1939. One female. Slightly differing 
from the original description: dark subcostal suffusion less developed, 
costal transverse white blotch reaching 2 / 3 across wing, dark subterminal 
transverse band edged only posteriorly by five rounded white dots, anterior 
edge only with a few minute white points. 
Meridarchis goes spec. nov. (fig. 517) 
yorjs = sorcerer 
$ 21.5 mm. Head and thorax light ochreous-brown, face and thorax 
dorsally pale ochreous. Palpus tawny, upper edge and cilia pale ochreous. 
Abdomen oclireous-whitish, anal tuft pale ochreous. Legs pale ochreous, 
above suffused with tawny, pale-ringed. Fore wing with veins 3 and 4 
approximated; elongate, dilated, costa gently curved, apex obtusely 
pointed, termen sinuate. Pale ochreous, densely suffused with tawny- 
brown, irrorated with dark brown. Costa pale ochreous towards extremities, 
suffused with light tawny in middle; a moderate longitudinal greyish- 
tawny costal streak from beyond base ; six brown costal spots : first large, 
subquadrate, at 1 / 3 , other small, becoming larger posteriorly, equidistant, 
arranged along posterior half of costa, last spot before apex ; disc suffused 
with brighter tawny- brown, this suffusion connected by a lobe with first 
costal spot; two longitudinal very oblique series of spots: upper series 
subcostal, from beyond and below first costal spot, formed by three 
somewhat ovate, tawny -brown spots, narrowly edged by pale ochreous; 
last spot of this series with posterior half forming a triangular pale ochreous 
tuft on upper angle of cell; lower series of spots subplical, formed by three 
round appressed tufts of scales, pale ochreous, suffused with tawny, less 
distinctly edged with pale ochreous; first of these tufts at 1 / 3 , second 
approximated, third largest, on lower angle of cell; irregular longitudinal 
rows of scattered dark brown scales, beginning at about 1 / 5 of wing : below 
costa, along upper edge of cell, along fold, and above dorsum ; an irregular 
transverse patch of ground colour edging cell posteriorly; wing beyond 
cell suffused with tawny along veins and along termen, ground colour 
elsewhere forming irregular pale ochreous patches ; moderate longitudinal 
dark brown irregular spots between veins, forming a zigzag transverse 
series well before termen; median spot projecting anteriorly. Cilia light 
ochreous irrorated with brown opposite apex (except on tips), and along 
