MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
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brown, a postmedian dark brown transverse band, narrowed in middle. 
Abdomen ochreous-greyish. Legs dark fuscous, ringed with pale ochreous, 
basal half of femora pale ochreous. Fore wing elongate, rather narrow, 
dilated; costa moderately curved anteriorly, straight posteriorly, except 
before apex; apex rather pointed, termen hardly convex, oblique. Pale 
whitish-ochreous, partially suffused and irrorated with light brown, 
markings deep coffee-brown. Base of costa with an elongate spot, extended 
at extreme base of wing to fold ; small longitudinal costal marks : first at 
1 / s , second to fourth along third fourth of costa, fifth well before apex; a 
large inwardly oblique triangular patch at 1 / i of disc, with upper edge 
horizontal, along upper edge of cell, top rather acute, on '/ 5 of dorsum; 
this patch fuscous, posterior angle with a fuscous-blackish rounded spot: 
a larger, but less sharply defined, invert-trapezoid discal spot beyond 
middle, from upper edge of cell to fold; this spot dark coffee-brown, with 
upper edge more or less interrupted by faint vertical streaks of pale ground 
colour, which isolate anterior upper angle of patch, so as to form a round 
blackish spot; lower posterior angle of this patch connected along fold 
with a small spot of the same colour on dorsum before tornus ; a subcostal 
streak of light suffusion from beyond base to about 3 / 4 , adjacent to discal 
patches ; an elongate light brown patch along third fourth of dorsum below 
second discal patch, touching that patch, connected anteriorly with 
subcostal streak by a transverse light brown band, which is running 
between discal patches; a dark brown dot on fold beyond this band; 
fuscous and light brown irroration forming a more or less defined vertical 
fascia beyond cell, dilated above and merging in posterior extremity of 
subcostal streak ; a dark coffee- brown transverse slightly inwards-oblique 
preterminal patch, extending from below subapical costal mark to above 
tornus narrowed below, with upper half deeply emarginate anteriorly; 
posterior extremity of costa, apex, and termen to tornus, with a series of 
dark coffee-brown longitudinal marginal streaks, forming above an almost 
continuous marginal fascia. Cilia glossy whitish-ochreous, tinged with 
pale brownish towards apex. Hind wing and cilia glossy whitish-ochreous. 
Ostium moderate, dorsal wall sclerotized, with a strong obliquely 
truncate blade at each side, and with a long pointed median projection, 
ventral fold, an erect-ovate large plate, with emarginate upper edge; 
strong folds at each side of that edge. Ductus bursae strong, with granulate 
wall, flattened, sinuate dorsoventrally in middle, abruptly narrowed, 
membraneous below sinuation. Signa with an irregular apical plate, and 
strong blade-like appendages, curved towards top and serrulate along 
inner edge. (Slide No. 847 D, type). 
Moss Forest Camp, five km northeast of Lake Habbema, 2800 m, 
October 19, 1938. One specimen. 
