MICROLEPIDOPTERA OE NEW GUINEA 
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Antenna dark fuscous, towards base suffused with whitish. Palpus whitish, 
median segment laterally except towards edges suffused with light tawny, 
and mixed with a few fuscous scales, terminal segment slightly infuscated 
towards base. Abdomen greyish-fuscous, mixed with creamy, posterior 
edges of segments and basal segment creamy, anal tuft ochreous-whitish. 
Legs creamy, anterior femur and all tibiae fulvous-brown above, all tarsi 
glossy -grey above. Fore wing cleft from before 3 / 4 ; first segment with costa 
curved, termen straight, oblique, tornus angulate; second segment with 
termen gently rounded, tornus strongly rounded. Pale fuscous, a very faint 
indication of a w'hitish streak along fold from base to dorsum ; costa with a 
dark fuscous rather narrow streak from base to before apex; this streak 
interrupted beyond 3 /,, of costa by a costal extension of a suffused 
ochreous-whitish streak, extending along veins 11 and 10; dorsal edge of 
dark costal streak marked with a row of greyish-white irregular small 
dots, from base of wing to before base of cleft; an ill-defined narrow 
streak of cloudy greyish-fuscous suffusion along upper edge of cell, 
becoming obliterate towards base; a fault greyish suffusion in apex of 
first segment, sometimes absent; a whitish terminal suffusion below this; 
a slightly inwardly oblique dark fuscous discal transverse dash from lower 
angle of cell, somewhat attenuated above, becoming less distinct and 
merging in a faint smoky suffused line along upper part of closing vein; 
dorsum of first segment sometimes with a row of minute blackish-fuscous 
scales from beyond base (mostly absent); a suffused fuscous patch along 
lower half of termen of second segment, edged anteriorly by a very faint 
inwardly oblique white fascia across segment, interrupted above middle. 
Cilia fuscous along costa, white opposite apex of first segment and in cleft; 
cilia light bronze-fuscous, with basal third blackish-fuscous, along termen, 
and in tornus of both segments, along posterior part of costa and along 
extreme part of dorsum of second segment; a whitish bar below apex 
of second segment, a grey cloudy bar in its tornus; cilia along dorsum of 
fore wing pale whitish-fuscous-ochreous, mixed with a few narrow dark 
fuscous scales. Hind wing rather light bronze-fuscous, cilia brassy golden- 
fuscous, glossy. 
Uncus robust. Cucullus almost truncate, with a large ventral tooth, 
sacculus simple, not constricted. Vinculum, a triangular, dentate plate. 
Juxta with upper lobes shaped like transverse triangular plates, lower 
lobes, small pads. Aedoeagus with strongly bulbate base. Signum a small 
tooth (Slide No. 1036 D, holotype). 
Scree Valley Camp, 3800 m, September 20, 1938 (holotype), September 
19 — 20, 1938. Five specimens. This species is distinct by the white-dotted 
costal streak which it has in common only with the preceding species. 
Uniformly coloured except one specimen which has head, body and fore 
wing suffused with light tawny ochreous, disc of fore wing, posterior fifth 
of first, and posterior half of second segment irrorated with fuscous- 
white, dark marginal scaling extending along entire cleft, and terminal 
cilia tinged with darker fuscous. 
