MICROLEPIDOPTERA OP NEW GUINEA 
137 
Camacostoma mesosapra spec. nov. (fig. 512, 513, 519) 
Heaot; — middle, aangog = dirty 
$ 27 mm. Head whitish, touched with pale ochreous, side-tufts suffused 
with tawny. Palpus whitish, suffused with pale tawny, densely irrorated 
with dark fuscous; upper edge and apex of median, and base and apex of 
terminal segment, whitish. Thorax pale ochreous-whitish, slightly mixed 
with tawny, an indication of a postmedian dark fuscous transverse band. 
Abdomen whitish, infuscated dorsally. Legs ochreous-whitish, anterior leg 
infuscated, median and posterior legs more or less irrorated with fuscous 
laterally. Fore wing moderately broad, elongate-triangular, costa moder- 
ately curved, slightly impressed in middle, apex obtusely pointed, termen 
hardly sinuate, moderately oblique. Whitish, partially moderately suffused 
with light greyish-fuscous, coarsely speckled and irrorated with blackish- 
fuscous. Base of costa with a pale fuscous elongate suffused spot, which 
is ill-defined, triangularly extending below to fold, centred with blackish- 
fuscous irroration; five elongate costal spots from 2 / 3 to before apex, two 
posterior of these spots smaller, approximated; an elongate-triangular 
blackish-fuscous dot on dorsum beyond base; light fuscous suffused streaks 
along edges of cell, broadest along closing vein; coarse blackish-fuscous 
irroration all over the wing, except along costa, forming irregular blackish- 
fuscous spots: above fold well beyond base, in middle of wing before 1 / 3 , 
below 1 / 3 of costa, and above upper angle of cell, last spot elongate; a 
rounded dot in upper part of cell at about 2 / 5 , connected with a streak 
along posterior part of lower half of cell, running to its lower angle; cell 
posteriorly more or less filled with light fuscous suffusion, and irrorated 
with blackish-fuscous; a transverse patch of not obscured, whitish ground 
colour edging cell posteriorly, traversed only by a blackish streak between 
bases of veins 5 and 6 ; a broad transverse patch of fuscous suffusion halfway 
between cell and termen, connected with two posterior costal dots, but 
not reaching costa; this patch moderately narrowed below, connected 
by a narrow almost horizontal branch with dark spot above posterior 
angle of cell, below cell confluent with faint fuscous suffusion extending 
over dorsum; transverse suffusion with broad streaks of blackish-fuscous 
irroration between veins, more or less confluent on upper half and extending 
as a dark oblique streak to the ultimate costal spot; a not dilated marginal 
streak of blackish -fuscous suffusion from that spot, running along costa, 
in apex, and along termen to tornus; edge of wing more or less tinged 
brownish-fulvous; terminal veins, except at base, suffused with fuscous. 
Cilia (damaged) whitish, basal half with a row of broad greyish blotches, 
tips apparently greyish. Hind wing pale greyish-fuscous, becoming darker 
towards apex, ochreous-whitish towards dorsum. Cilia pale fuscous, with 
a darker submedian shade. 
Ostium wide. Limen, a moderate transverse band with sinuate upper 
edge, a small fold medianly. Ductus bursae wide, subcylindrical, dilated 
