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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
bursae, a wide, rather short sac with granulate wall. Bursa copulatrix 
simple. (Slide No. 866 D, type). 
Moss Forest Camp, live km northeast of Lake Habbema, 2800 m, 
October 14, 1938. One specimen. A very distinct species. 
Actenoptila heliotropia spec. nov. (fig. 539) 
i jXioT oonio q = attracted by the sun 
$ 19 — 20 mm. Head, abdomen and thorax white, the latter with two 
greyish points in a median longitudinal series. Palpus white, basal half 
suffused with black. Antenna white, ringed with light grey. Legs blackish, 
ringed with white ; posterior leg whitish, anterior tarsus suffused with ochre- 
ous. Fore wing elongate-subtri angular, rather narrow, dilated ; costa curved 
throughout, apex rather obtuse, termen scarcely sinuate, almost straight, 
very oblique. White, scattered and suffused with dark grey, especially on 
posterior half. A triangular patch on base of costa, not reaching base of 
wing and base of dorsum, with upper half dark grey, lower half glossy 
yellowish-ochreous ; six moderate rounded costal dots, becoming more 
suffused posteriorly, from beyond 1 / 4 to before apex; four blackish discal 
smaller dots in a horizontal row, first of these on posterior edge of basal 
patch above middle, last dot in middle, faintly suffused with golden- 
yellowish below; two small golden-yellowish spots mixed with blackish 
scales at 1 / 3 and 2 / 3 of fold, just below and above it, respectively; an 
elongate transverse blotch of slightly raised golden-yellowish scales on 
end of cell, not reaching fold, almost connected below r with a transverse 
suffused dark grey subtriangular mark on dorsum at 2 / 5 ; posterior half of 
wing suffused w r ith grey except on dorsum; a subterminal blackish-grey 
suffusion from below costa to about vein 3, with anterior edge concave 
above, rounded below; a marginal row of indistinct black points from 
costa before apex to tornus. Cilia white, apical third greyish, basal third 
with a row of subquadrate dark grey blotches. Hind wing whitish, suffused 
with grey posteriorly; cilia whitish with a broad, dark grey antemedian 
band. 
Ostium wide, a moderate rising projection dorsally. Limen, a sub- 
triangular transverse pad at each side of ostium, surface coarsely granulate 
and short-bristled. Ductus bursae forming above a wide sack with granulate 
wall. Bursa copulatrix simple. (Slide No. 934 D, holotype). 
Scree Valley Camp, 3800 m, September 15, 1938, September 24, 1938 
(holotype). Two specimens. 
Heterogymna Meyrick, 1913 
Heterogymna Meyrick, 1913, Exot. Microl., vol. 1, p. 73. Gener. Ins., fasc. 179, 
pp. 7—8, 1922. 
