MIOROLEPIDOPTERA OE NEW GUINEA 
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Fore wing elongate-subovate, with costa gradually curved, apex obtuse, 
termen straight, oblique. Rat her glossy bronze-fuscous, markings blackish- 
fuscous, discal fine, minutely edged with paler, indistinct. Basal patch 
with oblique edge, costal half of patch dark fuscous, a minute dark streak 
on dorsum before base; six somewhat suffused moderate subtriangular 
costal dots, from before a / 5 to before apex, almost equidistant, edged with 
lighter posteriorly, except first and second dots; an oblique series of three 
small round discal dots below costa from before first costal to beyond 
second costal dot; a minute oblique streak at 1 / 4 of disc, running from fold 
halfway to dorsum, edged posteriorly by a ridge of slightly raised pale 
scales; two more such streaks, less distinct, above fold before middle and 
on transverse vein, respectively, first almost vertical, second longer, 
oblique; a cloudy indistinct dark fuscous suffusion from middle of cell 
obliquely to tornus, its anterior edge forming a more distinct narrow 
streak along end of fold; a cloudy, outwardly angulate dark fuscous- 
greyish preterminal suffusion from below costa to dorsum before tornus, 
preceded by a few pale ochreous interneural streaks above middle of disc; 
a row of small rounded dots in apex, along termen and in tornus. Cilia 
dark greyish-fuscous, faintly barred with lighter, a narrow pale basal line. 
Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 moderately approximated ; glossy ochreous- 
greyish; cilia grey with a pale basal line. 
Tegumen broad, subspheroid, simple, little sclerotized. Uncus absent. 
Socius, a patch of minute bristles. Valva moderate, little narrowed, 
cucullus elongate-ovate, short-bristled; sacculus ill-defined anteriorly, 
ending in an angulate projection, valvula semiovate, edge angulate, 
bristled. Vinculum strong, erect-triangular. Small cristae present. Aedoeagus 
long, slender, shaped like a pointed spoon, with a long narrow stalk, 
cornuti a comb of short, dense spines. (Slide No. 834 D, type). 
Top Camp, 2100 m, February 19, 1939. One specimen. 
Hystrichomorpha gen. nov. (fig. 548) 
votqi!; = porcupine, fiogrpri = shape 
Head with closely appressed scales, side tufts large, roughly spreading. 
Ocellus absent. Proboscis developed. Antenna in female over 2 / 3 , simple, 
scape moderate, without pecten. Palpus rather long subascending; median 
segment strongly ovately dilated, with thick, little appressed scales, 
moderately projecting above and beneath posteriorly; terminal segment 
moderate, porrect, robust, obtuse. Thorax with little appressed scales, 
and with a small raised tuft at each side anteriorly, smooth posteriorly, 
large erect lateral crests in middle, tegula thickly rough-scaled. Fore wing 
with very large rounded tufts of strongly raised scales; lb short-furcate 
at base, 2 from rather before angle, 3 from angle, 3—5 closely approximated 
at base, 6 submedian, 7 separate, to termen, 9 abruptly curved towards 
base and approximated to base of 8, 11 from beyond middle. Hind wing 
