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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OP NEW GUINEA 
20, 1938. One male, two females. Distinct by brownish and fulvous 
retination and by presence of terminal patch. Allied to preceding. 
Anisotenes decora spec. nov. (figs. 130, 140, 141) 
<j 22 mm, $ 23 mm. Head in male pale whitish-fuscous, in female white, 
vertex dark fuscous. Palpus in male suffused with grey, in female greyish, 
in both sexes mixed with fulvous and white scales. Antenna light fuscous, 
finely ringed with hrown. Thorax whitish, densely suffused with fuscous, 
tinged with grey except on tegulae. Abdomen whitish, slightly suffused 
with fuscous towards apex above. Legs whitish, anterior and median 
infuscated above, tarsi pale-ringed. Fore wing oblong, costa in male with 
a very small costal fold to beyond base, costa slightly curled along basal 
half, moderately gradually curved throughout; in female costa stronger 
curved anteriorly, almost straight posteriorly; apex in two sexes subacute, 
terrnen slightly sinuate, little oblique. White, markings pale brownish- 
fuscous and brownish-blackish. Basal patch rather large, in male slightly 
infuscated, edge brownish-blackish, narrow, suffused anteriorly, upper half 
slightly undulate, very outwardly oblique to upper edge of cell before 1 / 4 
of wing length, thence slightly inwardly oblique to fold, much inwardly 
oblique below this, in middle abruptly dilated over 1 / i ; in male costa 
along basal patch suffused with greyish -fuscous ; central fascia indicated 
by a conspicuous, somewhat curved, outwardly oblique moderate streak 
from 1 / 3 of costa to above middle of disc; this streak greyish-fuscous, 
sharply edged and suffused below with brownish-black, and connected 
with dorsum by a light greyish-fuscous suffusion, transversely strigulated 
with darker fuscous; this suffusion reaching along dorsum almost from 
edge of basal patch to tornus, its anterior edge almost vertical, slightly 
concave; its posterior edge tolerably horizontal to middle of vein 3, 
thence vertical to tornus, slightly outwardly convex and suffused with 
brownish-blackish; sometimes dorsal suffusion ill -defined; costal patch 
along fourth fifth of costa, elongate-ovate, narrow, greyish-fuscous, edged 
with brownish-black points, followed along costa by two fuscous-greyish 
dots; an erect-triangular moderate almost vertical blackish mark with 
top on terrnen above tornus, furcate above, reaching to vein 0; a small 
triangular brownish-black dot before terrnen below apex; terrnen slightly 
suffused with greyish, a brownish-black narrow terminal line along upper 
2 / 3 , a minute transverse dark line before apex. Cilia white, barred with 
fuscous-fulvous, especially below apex, an interrupted blackish antemedian 
line, base white. Hind wing whitish, in male faintly tinged fuscous- 
ochreous, marbled towards apex with grey, more so in female. 
Uncus strongly chitinised, robust, elongate, top rounded and rather 
flattened. Socius small, ovoid. Gnathos strong, broad, hook moderate. 
Transtilla knob large, broad, densely covered with short dentations, 
median projections short, united in middle, i.e. transtilla single, not 
paired (bent downward in mount, see figure). Valva rather short. Aedoe- 
