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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OE NEW GUINEA 
apex subacute, termen scarcely concave above, rounded beneath. Creamy- 
whitish, densely suffused with pale greyish-fuscous, markings ill-defined, 
darker greyish-fuscous. Basal patch small, indicated by a suffused strongly 
angulate greyish-fuscous line, with upper half much outwardly oblique, 
lower half dilated posteriorly by indefinite greyish-fuscous suffusion; an 
ill-defined rather broad transverse cloudy fuscous -greyish suffusion from 
1 / 3 of costa to 2 / 3 of dorsum, slightly darker below; costal patch indicated 
by four suffused light greyish-fuscous dots along costa posteriorly and an 
oblique greyish streak below costa; a black point on lower angle of cell; 
apical fourth of w r ing suffused with pale brownish-fuscous, dotted with 
black; a faint vertical blotch of greyish suffusion in tornus, dilated above; 
dorsum and tornus dotted with blackish -fuscous. Cilia creamy-whitish, a 
faint interrupted antemedian line. Hind wing and cilia whitish, tinged 
pale ochreous posteriorly. 
Limen narrow, gradually curved throughout, slightly dilated in middle. 
Ostium shallow, membraneous. Colliculum indicated. Cestum long, 
rather broad, little tortuous, terminal fold with edges thickened. Signum 
curved, rather thick, dentations small, capitulum rounded (Slide No. 
432 D). 
Moss Forest Camp, 2600 — 2800 m, October 9 — November 5, 1938. One 
specimen. Of obscure affinity, according to genitalia nearest to preceding. 
Anisotenes scoliographa spec. nov. (figs. 124, 125) 
oxofaog = oblique, ygdqxo = to draw 
^ 22 mm. Head white, vertex with three suffused grey spots. Palpus 
dark fuscous-grey, base paler, dorsal fringe of scales towards apex of 
median segment above, and tip of terminal segment white mixed with 
grey. Antenna dark fuscous ringed with white. Thorax fuscous-greyish, 
mixed with white, three indistinct transverse darker grey bands. Abdomen 
light greyish-ochreous. Legs whitish-ochreous, anterior and median 
strongly infuscated, tarsi and tibiae pale ringed. Fore wing elongate, 
rather narrow, little dilated, costa strongly curved anteriorly, straight 
posteriorly, a small tuft of cilia before middle, apex rounded, termen 
faintly sinuate, little oblique. Whitish, densely retinate with greyish, 
dorsal half suffused with fuscous, terminal third stronger retinate with 
grey. Basal patch moderate, suffused with dark grey and fuscous, a narrow 
blackish and ferruginous transverse median line, angulate in middle, with 
a horizontal ferruginous branch from above its middle to base of wing; 
edge of basal patch black, strongly angulate in middle, narrow above, 
dilated beneath, somewhat suffused on dorsum ; costa throughout rather 
strongly retinate and suffused with dark grey; central fascia rather 
narrow, from 2 / 5 of costa to dorsum before tornus, upper half dark grey, 
edged with blackish brown, narrowed and slightly outwardly curved 
below, to middle of disc; lower half of fascia cloudy, lighter greyish- 
fuscous, strongly suffused and dilated, edge ill-defined ; this edge reaching 
