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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
Abdomen whitish touched with greyish. Legs pale fuscous-whitish, 
anterior tibia and tarsus darker fuscous, light-ringed. Fore whig elongate- 
subovate, costa strongly curved anteriorly, ciliate, straight posteriorly, 
apex subacute, tennen straight, oblique. White, faintly irrorated and 
retinate with pale fuscous and pale grey, markings light fuscous and grey. 
Basal patch moderate, edge distinct, narrow, blackish, little oblique, 
middle third projecting, rounded: suffused with greyish-fuscous trans- 
versely strigulated with blackish; a moderate longitudinal blackish patch 
in middle of basal patch beyond base of wing; a small blackish suffusion 
on base of costa; costa beyond patch transversely blotched with grey; 
transverse fascia dark grey: a subquadrate blotch beyond 1 / 3 of costa, 
reaching below upper edge of cell ; an ill-defined suffusion, twice as broad 
as blotch, along central third of dorsum, strigulated with blackish, con- 
nected above with costal patch anteriorly; the latter large, from beyond 
1 / 2 to s / 6 of costa, subtrapezoid, with suffused edge, fuscous-greyish, 
coarsely transversely strigulated with dark brown with some four blackish 
patches along costa; a straight fuscous-grey little inwardly oblique 
moderately broad streak from termen to vein 0, angulate there, running 
to middle of posterior edge of costal patch; a small oblique streak from 
lower angle of cell towards tornus; intern eural rounded groups of blackish 
scales along lower half of termen, and before its upper half and apex; 
termen suffused with fuscous-grey; tornus and middle of disc posteriorly 
faintly suffused with orange-ochreous. Cilia grey, basal half whitish, with 
a row of blackish blotches. Hind wing pale greyish-fuscous darker towards 
apex, cilia grey with a whitish basal and a dark grey antebasal line. 
Limen short, much dilated towards ostium which is wide, funnel- 
shaped, membraneous. Colliculum and cestum absent. Signum rather short, 
curved, narrow, smooth, a chitinised projection in bursal wall, capitulum 
large, obliquely rounded (Slide No. 433 D). 
Moss Forest Camp, five km northeast of Lake Habbema, 2800 m, 
October 26, 1938. One specimen. Resembles a Parachorista. 
Nearest to A. spodotes spec. nov. 
Parachorista gen. nov. 
Head with roughly appressed scales. Ocellus posterior. Proboscis 
developed. Antenna in male ciliated. Palpus moderate, porrect, median 
segment with roughly projecting scales above and beneath, more or less 
expanded towards apex, terminal segment short. Thorax without crest. 
Fore wing rather narrow, pointed, with costal fold, vein 2 from 1 / 2 — 3 / s , 
3 from angle, terminal veins rather curved upward posteriorly, 7 separate, 
to tennen, 11 from middle. Hind wing without cubital pecten, 2 from 1 / 3 , 
3 from angle, separate from 4, often 3 and 4 connate, seldom very short- 
stalked, 6 approximated at base, 7 and 8 short-stalked or closely approxi- 
mated towards base. 
Tegumen elongate, slender; uncus broad, narrowed above base, top 
