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MICUOLEPID OPTEEA OP NEW GUINEA 
apex below, terminal segment dark fuscous above. Antenna whitish, 
faintly ringed with fuscous, apical third fuscous, scape above fuscous-grey. 
Abdomen ochreous-greyish. Legs whitish, anterior and median legs 
infuscated above, with tibia and tarsus white-ringed. Fore wing oblong, 
costa rather strongly arched anteriorly, faintly concave posteriorly, apex 
little rounded, termen slightly rounded, little oblique. White, slightly 
transversely strigulated and scattered with light fuscous-grey scales, 
markings rather pale fuscous-grey. Basal patch moderate, suffused with 
fuscous-grey along base of costa, finely strigulated with blackish ; edge of 
this patch narrow, strongly ungulate in fold, suffused below; basal patch 
blackish above, fuscous below; a moderate blackish spot in its middle, 
preceded by a few blackish scales, a fine short longitudinal blackish streak 
from middle of base of wing; central fascia from beyond 1 / 3 of costa to 
posterior x / 4 of dorsum, moderate, gradually slightly dilated below, edges 
tolerably straight or anterior edge slightly concave witli a small acute 
projection below middle, posterior edge somewhat convex; central fascia 
irrorated or suffused with greyish-fuscous, narrowly edged above with 
blackish, a streak on costal edge, and some dotting on dorsal edge blackish; 
costal patch distinct, elongate-triangular, from middle of costa to before 
apex, evenly suffused with dark greyish-fuscous, marked along costa with 
blackish, and whitish dots; sometimes a blackish point on lower angle of 
cell ; blackish dotting before upper half of termen arranged in an oblique 
row in middle of wing, and in a transverse row below apex; apex suffused 
with fuscous-grey. Cilia white, a small greyish patch opposite apex and an 
antemedian row of fine black points. Hind wing light grey, suffused and 
marbled with fuscous towards apex, cilia greyish with white base. 
Limen strong, with triangular dilatations at the sides. Ostium funnel- 
shaped, large, connected with a distinct, chitinised colliculum. Cestum 
obliterate, except for a small, semispheroid bursal part. Signum rather 
curved, capitulum elongate (Slides No. 414 D, holotype, No. 439 D, 
paratype). 
Sigi Camp, 1500 m, February 17 — 27, 1939 (holotype). Five females. 
Allied to mimela spec. nov. 
Parachorista mimela spec. nov. (figs. 154, 155) 
/ujuij?.6; — imitating 
$ 17 mm. Head whitish, vertex suffused with dark fuscous-grey, edged 
with white, tuft with a narrow longitudinal white line. Palpus dark 
fuscous-grevisli, basal segment, median segment towards apex, and tip 
of terminal segment white. Thorax greyish -fuscous mixed with pale 
ochreous-whitish. Abdomen pale greyish-ochreous. Legs whitish, anterior 
and median tibia and tarsus dark grey white-ringed. Fore wing oblong, 
dilated, costa gradually curved anteriorly, slightly sinuate posteriorly, 
apex little rounded, termen almost straight above, rounded beneath. 
Whitish, suffused with light ochreous-yellowrsh. except along dorsum and 
