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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
of eggs. Ostium moderate, colliculum mostly absent, cestum very strong, 
coiled, signum dagger-shaped. (Figures 13 and 14 will facilitate the 
reading of different parts of this type of genitalia.) 
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Key to the known species of Zcicorisca 
Both sexes with fore wing bluish-white, apical fourth reddish-coppery . 2 
Fore wing not thus coloured 3 
Costal fold in male absent aptycha spec. nov. 
Costal fold in male present daphnaea Meyrick (New Guinea) 
Fore wing with ground colour deep blue, purple or blue-blackish ... 4 
Fore wing with ground colour orange or yellow, markings blue or reddish 
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Fore wing with ground colour neither blue, orange nor yellow .... 22 
Fore wing with one terminal or costal marking only 5 
Fore wing with more than one marking. g 
Fore wing with an orange-red spot on basal part of costa 
' • • ; erythromis Meyrick (Buru) 
Fore wing with a coppery-fulvous terminal third or a coppery-red terminal 
fascia ..... 0 
Fore wing with coppery-fulvous terminal third 
pyrrocanthara Meyrick (New Guinea) 
Fore wing with coppery -red terminal fascia 7 
Hind wing deep blue or blackish with a coppery-red terminal fascia (female) 
or with posterior half coppery red (male) cyprantha Meyrick (New Guinea) 
Hind wing blackish with deep blue shine . holantha Meyricic (New Guinea) 
Hind wing deep purple with a transverse vertical yellow band before middle or 
with yellow basal half vexillijera Meyrick (New Guinea) 
Hind wing unicolorous deep purple g 
Fore wing with a yellow patch on base of dorsum and an ochreous transverse 
fascia at 2 / 3 platyantha Meyrick (Buru) 
Fore wing with a yellow, a whitish and an ochreous spot on base of costa, in 
disc and before apex, respectively, and an ochreous transverse discal streak 
at 3 /i . poecilantha Meyrick (Buru) 
Fore wing with apical half or third suffused with reddish 
heliaula Meyrick (Philippine Islands) 
Fore wing not thus 
Fore whig with apical half either loss deep blue than ground colour or purple, 
sometimes enclosing one or two orange spots or an orange streak. . . 12 
Fore wing with markings not thus arranged 21 
Hind wing dark purple-fuscous or deep purple-blue, markings orange or coppery- 
reddish 
Hind wing orange with deep blue apical patch 
Termen in hind wing with deep orange spots or a coppery-red band, or with 
posterior half coppery-red 
Termen of hind wing without markings or with slight orange marbling along 
lower half 
Hind wing with posterior half coppery -red (male) or with moderate coppery- 
red terminal fascia sometimes connected with a spot on costa before apex 
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Hind wing with deep orange spots on termen and on middle of costa . . . 
helminthophora Diakonoff (New Guinea) 
Fore wing with anterior edge of a blue transverse fascia considerably convex 
throughout, posterior edge convex, with a slight obtuse projection above 
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