MICRO LEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
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Blipta technica spec. nov. (figs. 537, 546) 
zeyvixog = artful 
35 mm. Head fuscous, face whitish edged fuscous. Palpus dark fuscous, 
upper edge of median segment paler posteriorly. Antenna fuscous, scape 
above, and rings on flagellum, dark brown. Thorax rather pale fuscous- 
ochreous, edged with darker fuscous anteriorly. Abdomen pale ochreous, 
anal tuft somewhat brighter ochreous, venter darkly infuscated. Legs 
fuscous-ochreous, anterior leg darker infuscated. Fore wing with costa 
almost straight anteriorly, slightly angularly prominent at 3 / 4 , apex obtuse, 
termen rounded, oblique. Rather light fuscous tinged with ochreous, 
anterior half of wing suffused with darker fuscous except on apical fifth ; 
a round, brownish, finely dark-edged spot below fold at 1 /' 5 ; five faint, 
small, rounded dark fuscous costal dots, decreasing in size posteriorly, 
first beyond 2 / & ; three somewhat darker brown, sharply defined marks on 
upper half of disc, minutely fight-edged, and finely suffused with dark 
fuscous along margins except below ; first of these marks beyond 1 / 3 , broad, 
crescentic, transversely oblique, extending from below costa almost to 
fold, second mark round, darkly edged throughout, below and slightly 
before first costal dot, third mark, a longitudinal streak sharply pointed 
anteriorly, with two rounded projections, at '/ 4 of its length, and at the 
end, reaching from beyond second mark to transverse vein; a tuft of 
raised scales on posterior angle of cell, followed by a faint interneural 
suffusion not reaching J / 3 towards termen ; a pretcrminal transverse series 
of three minute angulate dark brown marks in middle of disc ; a series of 
four large conspicuous triangular dark brown terminal spots in cells 4 — 7, 
narrowly connected along terminal edge, two middle spots larger. Cilia 
fuscous tinged with ochreous, indistinctly barred with darker fuscous. 
Hind wing somewhat glossy pale fuscous, tinged fulvous posteriorly; cilia 
darker fulvous-fuscous. 
Tegumen broad, strong: a truncate cylinder, ventral folds extended, 
thickened, with a marginal row of dense, short bristles, each fold ending 
below with an inward and an outward projection, both directed mediad, 
outward projection bristled. Uncus small, with a long, slender hook. 
Socius absent. Transtilla, a weak, membraneous band. Vulva moderate, 
costa moderately thickened, with a terminal tooth; cucullus slender, 
clavate, bristled; sacculus ill-defined, harpe a postmedian small tooth; 
base of valva is armed with a long rising spike, bristled at top, obviously 
being a modified crista. Vinculum rather long, erect-triangular. Aedoeagus 
with a long slender proximal rod, clavate anteriorly, and with a strongly 
dilated flattened and cuspidate distal portion, ending in a long point, and 
bearing a dense fringe of short bristles. (Slide No. 833 D, type). 
Moss Forest Camp, 2600 — 2800 m, October 9 — November 5, 1938. One 
specimen. 
