MICROLEPID OPTER A OF NEW GUINEA 
89 
9 25 — 28 mm. Head white, suffused on vertex and in middle of face 
with light fuscous-greyish. Palpus white, median segment, with a longi- 
tudinal brownish streak near base above, and a longitudinal blackish streak 
towards apex below', scales towards apex above mixed with brown, ter- 
minal segment with base blackish above. Antenna white, scape mixed 
with dark fuscous above except towards apex, flagellum ringed with dark 
fuscous. Thorax whitish, suffused with light grey above and mixed with 
black, a transverse black band anteriorly, collar and tcgula white, patagium 
white mixed with brown. Abdomen greyish-whitish, venter white; anal 
tuft, a very large brush of long light ochreous hair-scales. Legs white, 
touched with yellowish, anterior tibia and tarsus blackish -fuscous, white- 
ringed. Fore wing elongate-truncate, costa haired throughout, densely 
short-ciliated, gradually considerably curved anteriorly, apex rounded, 
slightly projecting, termen scarcely sinuate, little oblique. White, retinate 
with light fuscous-grey, and marked with black and dark fuscous. A row 
of small dots and transverse marks along costa throughout: deep fuscous; 
an ill-defined narrow transverse blackish streak from costa beyond base, 
reaching obliquely to fold, a rather narrow transverse fascia from 1 / 6 of 
costa to 2 / 5 of dorsum, indicated by irregular narrow blackish strigulae 
which are interrupted above and below middle; central fascia from x / 3 of 
costa to 3 / 4 of dorsum, somewhat outwardly convex above, slightly dilated 
beneath, inner edge angulated anteriorly at 3 / 5 , outer edge angulated at 3 / 4 , 
these edges formed by two narrow interrupted black strigulae connected 
with each other below middle by some narrow horizontal marks and lines ; 
costal patch moderate, triangular, formed by two . subquadrate, dark fuscous 
dots on costa before and beyond 3 / g , and a larger, elongate-rectangular 
slightly oblique bright coffee-brown spot below those; a subquadrate dark 
fuscous dot on costa before apex ; preterminal area with series of round 
black dots : two vertical series before termen below apex, two smaller series 
obliquely below costa before apex; three dots in an outwardly oblique 
series, before middle of termen, and some seven dots in an outwardly convex 
series, from middle of disc below costal patch to tornus ; some five suffused 
triangular black dots along middle third of dorsum. Cilia white, barred 
with fulvous-fuscous along costa, dotted with dark fuscous along their 
middle, viz., in apex and along termen. Hind wing white, touched with 
pale ochreous towards apex, faintly dotted with greyish along apical 
fourth, cilia white, touched with pale ochreous towards base. 
Limen rather broad, submembraneous in middle, upper edge convex, 
lower twice emarginated, angles somewhat truncate. Colliculum rather 
broad, short. Cestum strong, moderately long, (in one specimen reduced 
to a short lower part) narrow, with a median furrow, coiled once; end of 
cestum truncate, with a small, strong, finely denticulate knob at one side 
terminal plate very broad, subcircular. Signum rather broad, curved, 
serrate (Slides No. 369 D, paratype; No. 370 D, allotype). 
Sigi Camp, 1500 m, February 20, 1938. Mist Camp, 1800 m, January 8, 
