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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OP NEW GUINEA 
suffused with fuscous-greyish, anterior edge of this area distinct, running 
from beyond middle of costa to slightly above middle of disc at 2 / 5 , thence 
to lower 1 / i of posterior edge of transverse fascia, marked with a pair of 
small longitudinal blackish streaks above, with two similar obliquely 
transverse streaks in middle; about four short longitudinal suffused 
blackish streaks just below costa from beyond middle to before apex, 
continued by a vertical subterminal slightly curved series of about five 
blackish dots between veins, reaching above tornus. Cilia white, with an 
ill-defined fulvous antemedian line, costal cilia white. Hind wing white, 
apical fourth faintly spotted with greyish, cilia white, along apical fourth 
with a faint greyish median line. 
Limen broadly dilated in middle, projecting, upper and lower edge 
truncate, lower edge with shallow excavations towards angles which are 
short, truncate. CoUiculum moderate, narrowed below. Cestum moderately 
broad, with one torsion, and a moderate furrow, end twice excavate, 
terminal fold small, triangular. Bursa copulatrix small. Signum slender, 
gently curved, dentate on inner side. Gorethrogyne scales large, strongly 
clavate, top rounded, terminal projection minute (Slides No. 371 D, 
paratype, No. 382, holotype). 
Iebele Camp, 2250 m, September 21, 1938 (holotype). Moss Forest 
Camp, five km northeast of Lake Habbema, 2800 m, October 25, 1938 
(paratype). Two females. Paratype tinged fuscous instead of fuscous and 
fulvous, transverse fascia complete, with a small spot of ground colour 
just above middle, and an indentation of posterior edge below this spot 
reaching to 3 / 4 of dorsum, slightly dilated below, rather dark fuscous, 
touched with lilac, edges sharp, darker. Intermediate between erasa and 
mdancalymma. 
Isotenes melanopa spec. nov. (figs. 109, 1M), 111) 
/tela; = black, my) = eye 
$ 30 mm. Head white, vertex suffused with light grey. Antenna white, 
grey above. Palpus white mixed with a few blackish scales, median segment 
with a narrow blackish-brownish suffused streak along basal half of upper 
edge, from its end an oblique transverse blackish band to lower apical 
tuft, terminal segment suffused with blackish -brownish above. Thorax 
white, suffused with grey except along edge. Abdomen whitish, corethro- 
gyne black. Legs white, anterior tibia and tarsus above dark fuscous, 
ringed with white. Fore wing elongate-ovate, costa strongly gradually 
curved anteriorly, little curved posteriorly, apex subobtuse, termen little 
rounded above, more so below. White, finely irrorated with dark grey, 
markings black and dark brown. Basal patch indicated by faint grey 
suffusion, edged by a minute line at about 1 / 4 , angulate just above fold, 
upper part outwardly oblique, on costa with a blackish transverse mark; 
a pair of such marks close together on costa beyond base, followed by a 
few blackish dots; a large black outwardly oblique patch with slightly 
