MICROLEPIDOPTERA OE NEW GUINEA 
135 
3 and 4 connate from angle(?), 5 and 6 absent, 7 appressed to 8 along 
about basal fourth of its length, then diverging, to apex. 
Genotype: Spartoneura xerocrastis spec, nov., male. 
An anomalous form; judging by the labial palpi it is nearest to the 
Heterogymna group. 
Spartoneura xerocrastis spec. nov. (figs. 509, 518) 
£rjQog = dry, xejdang = grass 
18.5 mm. Head whitish, irrorated with dark brown. Antenna light 
brown, scape with apex pale ochreons. Palpus ochreous-whitish, densely 
irrorated with dark brown, shoidder light brown. Abdomen ochreous- 
whitish. Legs light brown, ringed with whitish, posterior leg whitish, 
banded with fuscous. Pore wing elongate, narrow, little dilated; costa 
slightly curved at base, more curved along posterior half; apex rather 
pointed, termen tolerably straight, oblique. Ochreous-whitish, densely 
suffused with pale brown, irrorated with dark brown, markings light 
brown. Costa irrorated with light brown, a suffused darker brown spot 
beyond base and six small dark brown dots: first at 3 / 5 , other along 
posterior half, slightly more approximated to each other posteriorly; 
round, fight brown, whitish-tipped tufts of raised scales : one below costa 
at 1 / 3 , one above fold before middle, and one on closing vein; base of each 
tuft narrowly edged by a whitish line, posterior tuft largest, triangular; 
two round brownish circular spots in a longitudinal series below middle 
of costa, posterior spot slightly lower; dark brown irroration forming a 
longitudinal row of irregular small spots below costa, and an interrupted 
fine along fold ; groups of dark brown scales scattered all over wing, edging 
discal spots and tufts above and below ; terminal area suffused with light 
brown along veins, leaving irregular patches of whitish ground colour: 
moderate longitudinal dark brown streaks between veins arranged in a 
strongly posterad angulate transverse series, running about halfway 
between cell and costa, and between cell and termen, respectively, tolerably 
parallel to edge of wing; apex and termen more suffused with brownish- 
fuscous; an indication of a dark brown spot at base of dorsum. Cilia pale 
ochreous, apical third whitish, a postmedian greyish-fuscous band: well- 
defined posteriorly, suffused anteriorly. Hind wing dull whitish-ochreous, 
edge tinged brighter ochreous, apex faintly suffused with greyish. Cilia 
whitish-ochreous, a faint greyish median shade. 
Tegumen broad, rounded. Uncus with a dorso-ventrally flattened broad 
hook. Gnathos represented by a rounded, moderately sclerotized, simple 
fold at each side of tegumen. Valva complicated: costa subtriangular, 
sclerotized, ventral edge dentate, with a long projection apically, dorsal 
edge with a short truncate projection, with a transverse ridge of short 
dentations; anterior half of valva strongly concave, edges sclerotized; 
sacculus ending in a transverse concave, dentate ridge; cucullus very 
