MICROLEPIDOETERA OF NEW GUINEA 
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narrow hook. Transtilla knob strong, median projection dilated. Juxta 
strong. Aedoeagus moderate (Slide No. 405 D). 
Mist Camp, 1800 m, January 17, 1939. One specimen. 
Anisotenes dracontodonta spec. nov. (figs. 126, 131, 132) 
dndy.cov = a drake, uSoik = a tooth 
J 22 — 26 mm, $ 24 — 26 mm. Head white, in male mixed with brown 
scales. Palpus in male grey, median segment with basal half fulvous, 
a white spot towards apex above, terminal segment whitish mixed with 
fuscous-grey, palpus in female white, basal half above fulvous, apical half 
densely mixed with fulvous and dark fuscous scales except towards apex 
laterally, terminal segment mixed with dark fuscous above and beneath. 
Antenna fuscous-fulvous, ringed with white, more distinctly so in female, 
scape suffused with white. Thorax in male white, densely mixed and 
marbled with dark brown, thorax in female white. Abdomen whitish-grey, 
posteriorly suffused with dark grey, anal tuft in male grey and pale 
ochreous, in female pale ochreous, seventh ventrite blackish. Legs whitish 
suffused with golden-ochreous; anterior leg dark fuscous above, with tarsus 
white-ringed. Fore wing oblong, in male more dilated, with a. moderate, 
ciliated costal fold to beyond 2 / 5 , gently curved and oblique along this, 
straight posteriorly, a small tuft of cilia before middle, apex subacute, 
slightly projecting, termen scarcely concave above, rather oblique, in 
female costa along anterior half roughly ciliated and considerably curved, 
posteriorly less roughly ciliated, straight; apex rounded, termen almost 
straight, less oblique than in male. Creamy-white, scattered with fine 
black and fuscous points, markings black, dark grey and suffusedly brown. 
Costal fold in male with a dark brownish-grey streak along basal two- 
thirds strigulated with black, mixed with white scales, an elongate dark 
brownish-grey patch before apex, white spot at apex with a small white 
costal tuft of cilia; in female basal half of costa with a small elongate 
transverse mark before 1 / 6 and an elongate moderate dark grey patch at 
2 / 3 , both continued obliquely across wing by ill-defined black and fuscous 
fine dotting; a large conspicuous black dentiform patch on x / 5 of dorsum, 
top acute, slightly inwardly oblique, reaching 2 / 3 across wing, almost 
continued with first costal spot by a narrow blackish line in male, greyish 
one in female, this patch less distinct along dorsum, in female with a 
rounded black dorsal dot anteriorly, posterior edge angularly excavate in 
middle; central fascia indicated in male by an oblique, interrupted black 
line, and rows of black dots from second costal patch, obliquely reaching 
to middle of disc towards dorsum before tornus; central fascia in female 
indicated by a curved narrow streak from similar patch to 3 / 4 of dorsum, 
greyish, irrorated with dark points above, with an irregular series of black 
dots below; in both sexes a subquadrate transverse brownish-black blotch 
on 3 / 4 of dorsum, slightly inwardly oblique, continued by an elongate- 
ovate patch of fulvous-brownish suffusion which is marked with irregular 
