MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
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whitish tinged with pale ochreous, apex faintly suffused with pale grey; 
cilia ochreous-whitish. 
Tegumen moderate, subconical. Uncus, a slender hook. Valva rather 
slender, cucullus over 1 / 2 , narrowed, bristled, gently clavate, costa with 
a strong rising plate at base which is bristled ventrally and ends in two 
projections, anterior of these longer, bristled; harpe, a strong hook close 
to edge of sacculus. Vinculum weak, erect-triangular. Aedoeagus with 
slender stalk and irregularly dilated bilobed base, terminal lobe long. 
Cornuti, patches of very dense slender bristles, and a comb of long spines. 
(Slide No. 843 D, holotype). 
$ 28 — 32 mm. Head whitish, tinged pale ochreous. Palpus very long 
and slender, whitish, base and lower edge mixed with a few blackish 
scales, terminal segment tinged greyish. Antenna whitish-ochreous, ringed 
and suffused with fuscous, base of flagellum dark fuscous. Thorax whitish 
finely irrorated with pale fuscous, dark fuscous anteriorly. Abdomen 
whitish. Fore wing with costa curved throughout. Glossy whitish, faintly 
tinged straw-colour, costa posteriorly and apex suffused with greyish, 
markings brownish-black. A moderate, ovate spot on base of costa, 
marked with blackish along costal and posterior edge; a large discal patch 
reaching along fold to plical dot; second discal dot obliterate; a greyish 
suffusion on posterior half of cell, edged by a darker streak on transverse 
vein; preterminal suffusion rather indefinite, inwardly angulate in middle, 
obliterate above and below; terminal line dissolved in a row of elongate 
dots. Cilia greyish-white, basal half with a series of quadrate greyish 
blotches. Hind wing and cilia paler than in male. 
Ostium, a large bag, narrowed below, dorsal edge with a median 
projection. Limen represented by a moderately sclerotized large transverse 
plate, with upper edge curved, lateral edges each with a deep oblique 
emargination below middle. Signa with a rounded apical plate and rather 
slender appendages, which are finely serrulate along inner edge and slightly 
curved towards apex. (Slide No. 844 D, allotype). 
Moss Forest Camp, 2600—2800 m, October 9— November 5, 1938. 
One male (holotype). Lake Habbema, 3250 — 3300 m, August 25, 1938, 
end July — end August, 1938 (allotype, female). Two females, somewhat 
damaged and much paler than the male specimen, but according to the 
discal markings, conspecific. 
Anomoeosis barbara spec. nov. (figs. 524, 525) 
pdoftano; = coarse 
9 21 mm. Head pale whitish-ochreous. Antenna with basal segment 
whitish-ochreous, flagellum pale fuscous, faintly ringed with blackish, basal 
fourth blackish. Palpus pale whitish-ochreous, basal half dark fuscous, 
a minute dark fuscous speck on base of terminal segment above. Thorax 
pale whitish-ochreous, speckled and anteriorly suffused with deep coffee- 
