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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
short, rounded, rectangularly bent upward, bristled ; a small bristled knob 
at base of cucullus above. Aedoeagus huge: basal half slender, strong, 
apical half forming an asymmetrical spoon, left half with a brush of 
bristles, opposite excavations of the spoon a strong long projection clothed 
with appressed dense bristles which form a triangular brush on the right 
side. Vinculum large, triangular. (Slide No. 850 D, type). 
Mist Camp, 1800 m, December 28, 1938. One specimen, with the dorsal 
half of the fore wings rather damaged. 
Camacostoma gen. nov. (fig. 519) 
xdpa^ = a pole, nrofia = mouth 
Head with appressed scales. Ocellus small, posterior. Proboscis developed. 
Antenna in female simple. Palpus very long, porrect, median segment 
very long, gently bent, slender, with smoothly appressed scales, abruptly 
expanded and forming a moderate loose tuft slightly before middle of 
upper edge, terminal segment over x / 4 of median, cylindrical, smooth, top 
almost truncate. Fore wing with tufts of raised scales, lb furcate at base, 
2 from towards angle, 3 — 5 approximated, 8 and 9 stalked, 11 from 
beyond middle. Hind wing in female with cubital pecten, 2 from middle, 
3 and 4 short-stalked from angle, 5 absent, 6 well-developed, parallel to 
7 along 2 / 3 , then moderately diverging, closing vein sinuate, convex above, 
upper angle of cell strongly rounded. 
Genotype Camucostom,a mesosapra spec, nov., female. 
Judging from the neuration, nearest to Meridarchis, with a facies 
resembling that of M. erebolimnas Meyrick, 1938. The peculiar, very long 
palpi with a moderate, not arrowed and almost truncate terminal segment 
deserve separation of this species from the latter genus. 
Fig. 519: Camacostoma mesosapra gen. nov., spec, nov., female, head and wing 
neuration. 
