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MICROLERIDOPTERA OP NEW GUINEA 
a row of round pale golden-ochreous terminal dots on veins; a few small 
dark dots sparsely scattered between dark markings ; a group of cloudy 
fuscous dots above '/ 3 of dorsum. Cilia pale golden-ochreous, becoming 
suffusedly deep golden-ochreous on basal half; a faint interrupted dark 
submedian fascia round apex. Hind wing pale ochreous- whitish, glossy; 
cilia sordid pale ochreous, whitish towards tips. 
Tegumen spheroid. Uncus moderate, top dilated, bifid. Gnathos strong, 
edges covered with appressed short bristles; it is shaped as a porrect hook 
dilated before top, two descending rims, each ending below in a short 
blunt point, and a rising arm with a small projection below base of uncus. 
Valva moderate, elongate, submembraneous, finely and densely haired: 
cucullus narrowed, with a dorsal fold; sacculus moderate, with a small 
blunt apical tooth. Transtilla absent. Vinculum, a curved rod with a 
small median projection. Anellus, a transverse subtrapezoid plate. 
Aedoeagus moderate, somewhat sinuate, top bluntly cuspidate. Cornuti 
absent. Eighth segment considerably modified: a pair of pencil-like lateral 
coremata present; ventrite with sclerotized median plate with deeply 
emarginate posterior edge, a small tooth at each side; a narrow 
sclerotisation at each side of this plate, ending on posterior edge of segment 
in a projecting point, below this a group of strong bristles. (Slide No 936 I) 
type). 
Mist Camp, 1800 m, January 10, 1939. One specimen. 
