MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
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Anisotenes bathygrapha spec. nov. (figs. 129, 136, 137) 
fiad-vg = rich, ygdrpco = to draw 
<J 20 — 22 mm. Head white, vertex mixed with greyish -fuscous. Palpus 
dark fuscous-grey, base, median segment towards apex above and terminal 
segment whitish mixed with dark fuscous-grey. Thorax whitish, shoulder 
and apex more or less suffused with dark fuscous-grey. Antenna dark 
fuscous, ringed and suffused with white along basal half. Abdomen pale 
greyish-ochreous, venter grey. Legs grey, anterior and median darker 
grey, tarsi pale-ringed. Fore wing broad, triangularly dilated, costal fold 
extremely narrow, to 1 / 4 , costa gradually considerably curved anteriorly, 
less posteriorly, apex subacute, faintly falcate, termen slightly sinuate, 
little oblique. White, partially suffused and finely irrorated with grey and 
fuscous, and very faintly suffused with oehreous, markings dark blackish- 
fuscous. Basal patch moderate, with a narrow dark fuscous streak along 
base of costa, and a fuscous suffusion on base of wing; edge of basal 
patch narrow, blackish-fuscous, concave above, strongly angulate on 
upper margin of cell, with a blackish, inwardly oblique dentiform mark 
extending from fold to angulation, with top acute or suffused, obliterate 
below fold; central fascia from 1 / 3 of costa to posterior half of dorsum, its 
anterior edge straight throughout; upper half of this edge formed by a 
blackish -fuscous well-defined oblique blotch, suffused with whitish in 
middle below costa, with anterior edge straight, posterior edge concave; 
lower half of this blotch represented by a light fuscous-grey suffusion, with 
anterior edge horizontal to end of cell, thence vertical, slightly convex, to 
dorsum before tornus; sometimes central fascia suffused w’ith dark 
greyish-fuscous throughout; costal patch elongate-triangular, rather dark 
grey, sometimes dark fuscous-grey, marked along costa from middle 
almost to apex with three small, and two larger dark greyish-fuscous 
triangular dots, and a suffused grey dot; top of costal patch with a 
blackish spot, well-defined below', suffused above, posterior edge of spot 
along vein 8; a small inwardly oblique transverse mark on low er angle of 
cell, sometimes narrowly connected along discoidal vein w'ith costal patch ; 
a faint yellowish-ochreous suffusion along upper and posterior edge of 
cell, sometimes absent ; terminal fourth of wing suffused with mouse-grey, 
sometimes with dark greyish-fuscous, especially along veins; a darker grey 
suffusion along terminal edge above, and a transverse group of black dots 
before middle of termen. Cilia w'hitish, dark grey opposite apex of wing, 
apical third dark grey, an antemedian row of irregular dots. Hind wing 
pale greyish-fuscous, paler towards tornus, posterior half with darker 
edge and slightly marbled with fuscous. 
Uncus w'ith top slightly indent. Socius small. Gnathos with a moderate 
hook. Transtilla knob with a slender stalk. Valva short (Slide No. 444 1), 
holotype). 
$ 26 mm. Fore wing narrower than in male, markings paler and much 
suffused, costal patch almost entirely obliterate. 
