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MICKOLEPID OPTEEA OF NEW GUINEA 
below costa, rounded and projecting below this; terminal veins becoming 
deep bluish posteriorly, terminal fifth of wing gradually turning from deep 
indigo-blue into black with a purple tinge; costa with a dark blue edge, 
very narrow at base, somewhat dilated posteriorly, connected with dark 
terminal area; the latter with anterior edge concave, from about 4 / 5 of 
costa to tornus. Cilia dark grey with blackish-blue base. Hind wing greyish- 
ultramarine-blue, suffused with black along terminal 1 / i and along termen, 
dorsum suffused with blackish-blue. Cilia pure-white, with a black basal 
line. 
Limen V-shaped. Colliculum rather strong, short. Cestum broad, coiled 
twice, with a median longitudinal furrow. Terminal fold strong. Ovipositor 
lobes broad, obtusely pointed above (Slide No. 320 D, holotype). 
Araucaria Camp, 800 m, March 17, 1939 (holotype), March 16, 1939. 
Two females. 
Zacorisca bovisanguis spec. nov. (figs. 22, 27, 32) 
(j 24 mm, $ 28 mm. Head, antenna, thorax and legs dark bronze-grey, 
shining violet, especially on face, tegulae and thorax ; abdomen somewhat 
lighter, corethrogyne dark brown-grey, in male two anal segments golden- 
ochreous below. Fore wing with costal fold moderately broad to beyond 
Yj of costa, thence very narrow to middle of costa; costa moderately 
gradually curved anteriorly, posteriorly straight in male, slightly curved 
in female, apex rounded , termen straight, vertical. Reddish -ferruginous 
with strong olive- violet and purple gloss. A narrow streak on extreme base 
of wing dark bronze-grey and purple, followed by a narrow, suffused 
orange streak along base of wing and base of costa, in male bright orange- 
red, continued as a minute bright yellow streak along costal edge to apex, 
in female reaching to middle of costa; dorsum faintly suffused with 
darker ferruginous. Cilia concolorous, somewhat lighter. (Underside of 
wing bright coppery-fcrruginous-violet, orange-yellow on basal third.) 
Hind wing coppery-ferruginous-reddish, less glossy than fore wing, lighter 
at base in male, with pencils of dark grey hairs at base ; costal fifth shining 
white. Cilia concolorous, but lighter, with coppery-golden gloss, a coppery- 
reddish anternedian line. (Under side of wing concolorous with cilia, base 
lighter.) 
Uncus broad, top rounded-truncate. Gnathos strong, with a long hook. 
Socius, a moderate series of bristles. Transtilla knob moderately large, 
strong, median projection strong, moderately long. Peniculus rather 
small, top conical. Valva short, basal part of sacculus narrow. Juxta 
cup-shaped, rather flattened. Vinculum broad. Aedoeagus considerably 
chitinised (Slide No. 309 D). 
Limen rectangularly bent, narrow, lateral parts dilated. Colliculum 
strong, moderately long, slightly constricted above middle. Cestum 
strong, with a median furrow, spiraled, terminal fold broad. Signum 
gradually narrowed towards point (Slide No. 322 1)). 
