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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
below ostium, wall strongly granulate, lower half abruptly narrowed. 
Bursa copulatrix very large. Signa with a concave apical plate, which is 
finely rippled transversely, appendages narrowed, little curved. (Slide 
No. 861 D, type). 
Iebele Camp, 2250 m, November 17, 1938. One specimen; superficially 
resembling Meridarchis erebolimnas Meyrtck. 
Carposina Herrich-Schaffer, 1856 
Carposina Herrich Schaffer, 1856, Schmett. Eur., vol. 5, p. 38, pi. 12, figs. 1, 2. 
Meyrick, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, vol. 35, pp. 146-147, 1910. Gener. Ins., 
fasc. 179, pp. 4-5, 1922. Fletcher, Mem. Agric. Ind., Ent., vol. 11, p. 40, 1929. 
Enopa Walker, 1866, List Lep. Het. Brit. Mus., vol. 35, p. 1738. 
Oistophora Meyrick, 1881, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, vol. 6, p. 699. 
Heterocrossa Meyrick, 1882, ibidem, vol. 7, pp. 178-179. 
Carposina mnia spec. nov. (fig. 526) 
fivtia = memory 
$ 20 mm. Head white. Antenna whitish, scape mixed with dark fuscous. 
Palpus whitish, speckled with dark fuscous scales, except apices of median 
and terminal segments, and base of terminal segment. Thorax and abdomen 
whitish, tinged pale fuscous, with a faint golden gloss. Legs dark fuscous, 
whitish-ringed. Fore wing elongate-subtriangular ; costa almost straight, 
slightly curved towards extremities, faintly prominent at 1 / 3 ; apex pointed, 
termen gently sinuate, considerably oblique. Glossy whitish, partially 
slightly irrorated with fuscous, markings dark fuscous. Basal patch small, 
much extended along costa so as to form a longitudinal dark fuscous 
streak, with inner edge strongly inwardly oblique, with a rectangular 
projection in middle, this edge vertical below fold; an ill-defined slender 
wedge-shaped inwardly oblique transverse streak at 1 j i , with a longitudinal 
dark mark on costa, abruptly dilated below this, gradually narrowed 
tow r ards dorsum ; three moderate equidistant costal dots from 1 / 2 to before 
3 / 4 ; a large subquadrate slightly inwards-oblique patch beyond middle of 
disc, from well below costa to fold, connected by a faint longitudinal streak 
of fuscous suffusion above middle of disc with upper half of preceding 
transverse streak; only posterior edge of patch well-defined: concave, 
running along closing vein; upper and lower posterior angle of patch 
acutely erected, lower narrowly continued along fold to dorsum, and 
connected there with a moderate streak of fuscous suffusion, occupying 
about third fourth of dorsum; a cloudy transverse fascia of rather pale 
fuscous irroration from beyond 5 / 6 of costa to tornus, slightly inwards- 
oblique, moderately dilated below; a faint rising branch from below 
middle of this fascia anteriorly, almost connecting this with upper posterior 
angle of preceding patch; a small dot on costa before apex; a row of 
ill-defined fuscous dots on veins along tornus, interconnected by a minute 
