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MICROLEPIDOPTEKA OF NEW GUINEA 
pale ochreous, markings fuscous and blackish-fuscous. Costa suffused with 
fuscous from base to base of cleft, with a series of irregular darker fuscous 
transverse spots; a triangular blackish-fuscous costal patch before base 
of cleft, with anterior edge rather straight, oblique, top pointed, reaching 
to lower angle of cell ; posterior edge of costal patch gently concave, 
almost vertical, before base of cleft; first segment with an elongate- 
semiovate fuscous-whitish spot suffused with pale ochreous, narrowed on 
dorsum of that segment, extending along costa from above base of cleft to 
slightly beyond middle: a broad transverse dark terminal patch occupying 
posterior half of costal segment and 2 / s of second, traversed somewhat 
beyond middle by a white line, tolerably parallel to termen: dark fuscous 
before this line, fuscous-grey beyond, with dark fuscous colour extending 
along costa of first segment to its apex and along dorsum of second over its 
tornal fourth; a suffused dark fuscous line around cleft: dorsum of wing 
with a semiovate dark fuscous spot at 1 / 4 , traversed before middle by a 
pale line; dorsum also with a dark fuscous marginal streak to before 3 / 4 , 
narrowly connected with preceding and interrupted by three dots of ground 
colour. Cilia (much damaged) greyish-white with blackish-fuscous bars: 
two on termen of first segment and three on that of second segment; dorsal 
cilia pale fuscous with three black bars: slightly before 2 / 3 , edged with 
whitish, and a smaller bar, distinctly before base of cleft; cilia opposite 
terminal patch fuscous. Hind wing cleft from about middle and from 
towards base, first segment spatulate, second obliquely lanceolate, acute, 
anal angle rounded, third segment linear. Pale fuscous-grey densely irro- 
rated except in disc with fuscous-grey. Cilia pale fuscous-grey, dorsum of 
third segment with a strong black bar before apex, and a few black scales 
from this to apex, becoming smaller posteriorly, without a trace of dark 
scales between base of wing and these scales. 
Moss Forest Camp, five km northeast of Lake Habbema, 2800 m, 
October 16, 1938. One specimen. Very near P. sijthoffi (Snellen), dif- 
fering by the pale legs, by the shape of the pale spot on base of first 
segment of fore wing which is narrowed on dorsum (in sijthoffi on costa), 
and by the position of the second black bar in dorsal cilia (in sijthoffi 
beyond base of cleft). The unique specimen is in bad condition but the 
species can sufficiently be discriminated from sijthoffi by the combination 
of these characters. 
Platyptilia phanerozona spec. nov. (figs. 6, 8) 
qiavEQog — conspicuous, £e6>'jj = a bolt 
$ 17 mm. Head, palpus fuscous-grey, orbit or eye white. Antenna dark 
fuscous. Thorax fuscous-grey irrorated with darker fuscous, metathorax 
greyish-white. Abdomen fuscous irrorated with whitish, first and second 
segments greyish-white, anal tuft ochreous-whitish. Legs pale greyish, 
densely irrorated and suffused with fuscous, posterior leg rather pale 
