160 
MICROLEPIDOPTERA OP NEW GUINEA 
with cubital pecten, semiovate-subtrapezoid, rather pointed, under 1 1 / 2 , 
cilia 2 1 / 2 ; 2 from 2 / 5 of lower edge of cell, 3 from angle, 4 remote, 5 absent, 
4 — 7 parallel, 6 rather weak, closer to 4, 7 to apex, 8 free. 
Genotype Hystrichomorpha acanthina spec, nov., female. 
Allied to preceding. Suggests a connection of the present family with 
the Copromorphidae. 
Fig. 548: Histrichomorpha acanthina gen. nov., spec, nov., female, head and wing 
neuration. 
Hystrichomorpha acanthina spec. nov. (figs. 533, 534, 548) 
&xdv{hvoQ = thorny 
$ 21 mm. Head white, touched with pale yellowish, sides of face above, 
vertex, and side-tufts laterally irrorated with olive-grey -fuscous. Antenna 
whitish, ringed with olive-grey-fuscous. Palpus whitish, irrorated with 
dark fuscous except towards base of segments, median segment also with 
a subbasal ring of denser dark fuscous irroration. Thorax light straw- 
tawny, apex with a large erect-ovate dark fuscous patch of smooth scales, 
sharply edged with whitish anteriorly. Abdomen whitish, tinged pale 
greyish-olive, anal tuft whitish, venter whitish with a sublateral row of 
dark fuscous dots. Legs whitish, anterior tibia and all tarsi suffused with 
darkfuscous above, light-ringed. Fore wing with very large tufts of strongly 
raised scales; elongate-subovate, rather narrow, costa moderately curved, 
more so towards extremities, apex rather obtuse, termen rounded, oblique. 
Anterior 3 / 4 pale tawny-straw coloured, posterior fourth whitish; coarsely 
