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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
2250 m, November 12, 1938. One male, four females. Very near to 
H. collegialis Meyrick. 
Blipta gen. nov. (fig. 546) 
Head with appressed scales. Ocelli not perceptible. Proboscis very short. 
Antenna in male moderately ciliated, ciliations over 1, scape short, 
moderately dilated and flattened. Labial palpus long, subascending, median 
segment strongly thickened with appressed scales, roughened along edges, 
elongate-ovate, terminal segment under 1 / 2 of median, slender, clavate, 
subobtuse. Fore wing with tufts of raised scales on surface; lb furcate, 
lower branch weak, 2 from near angle, 3 and 4 closely approximated 
towards base, 5 approximated, 6 remote, 7 and 8 separate, 7 to termen, 
9 approximated. 1 1 from 3 / 5 . Hind wing with cubital pecten, trapezoid- 
ovate, over H/g, cilia 1 / i . 2 from before middle, 3 from angle, 4 parallel, 
widely remote from 3, 5 absent, transverse vein strongly curved, end of 
cell being elongate-ovate, 6 well-developed, 7 to apex, 8 from base to 
before angle, closely approximated to cell, to ®/ 7 of upper edge of cell. 
Genotype: Blipta technica spec, nov., male. 
Perhaps an ancestor of the Bondia-type. Correlated with Sosineura 
Meyrick, 1910. Bondia xylinarcha Meyrick, 1910, from New Guinea also 
belongs to this genus. 
Fig. 546: Blipta technica gen. nov., spec, nov., male, head and wing neuration. 
Key to the species of Blipta 
1. Terminal black marks, about four small dots xylinarcha Meyrick 
Terminal black marks, four large wedge-shaped marks more or less connected 
along termen technica spec. nov. 
