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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
slightly suffused with grey, somewhat tinged fuscous, markings dark grey. 
Basal half of fold dark grey, base of wing above fold slightly suffused with 
fuscous-grev, obliquely strigulated with dark grey; central fascia narrow, 
pale greyish, ill-defined, from a short blackish streak along costa at 2 /s. 
to 3 / 4 of dorsum, darker and slightly dilated along basal third; costal patch 
moderate, somewhat elongate-triangular, suffused with dark fuscous- 
grey, top and three small dots along costa blackish-grey; apex of wing 
suffused with grey, finely irroratecl with darker fuscous-grey, edge of this 
suffusion ill-defined, from top of costal patch to termen above tornus; 
some indistinct fuscous-grey irroration in tornus, and along upper half of 
■wing before costal patch. Cilia white, a dark fuscous-grey median band, 
interrupted along lower half of termen, and in tornus. Hind wing pale 
grey, evenly infuscated in apex. Cilia greyish with a darker antemedian 
shade, and whitish base. 
Uncus somewhat rounded, broad-diamond-shaped. Socius rather large. 
Hook of gnathos short. Transtilla knob very large, elongate, median 
projection long, sinuate. Aedoeagus with terminal thorn (Slide No. 440 D). 
Mist Camp, 1800 m, January 17, 1939. One specimen. Allied to pre- 
ceding, distinct by small size and dark grey costal markings. 
Parachorista pityrochroa spec. nov. (figs. 158, 159) 
niTVQo%QOjQQ — bran -coloured 
$ 16 mm. Head and palpus light grey tinged fuscous, latter rather 
slender. Thorax fuscous-grey mixed with whitish (damaged). Abdomen 
pale ochreo us- whitish. Legs pale ochreous, infuscated, anterior leg fuscous, 
light-ringed. Fore wing elongate-ovate, costa gradually curved anteriorly, 
almost straight posteriorly, apex pointed, termen straight above, gradually 
rounded beneath, oblique. Creamy-whitish, densely irrorated and suffused 
with fuscous-brownish, and partially with fulvous, markings dark fuscous- 
greyish. Anterior third of wing with ground colour little irrorated with 
fuscous, a fault fulvous streak along fold. Basal third of costa coarsely 
transversely strigulated with blackish -fuscous; indistinct small dark 
cliscal marks beyond base and at about 1 / 5 , and a suffused dark brownish- 
fuscous dot at 1 / 6 of dorsum indicate basal patch ; central fascia from 
beyond J / 3 of costa to 2 / 3 of dorsum, greyish -fuscous, edged with dark 
fuscous-brown, in middle of disc slightly suffused with fulvous, with 
upper third narrow, narrowed above middle, with lower half dilated; ante- 
rior edge slightly concave in middle; posterior two-thirds of wing densely 
suffused with fuscous-brownish tinged ferruginous, spotted with brownish- 
fulvous except along costa and termen, this suffusion much obscuring 
posterior edge of central fascia; costal patch ill-defined, elongate-ovate, 
darker brownish-fuscous, four dark brown dots along costa; a series of 
subterminal dark fuscous-brown marks from termen to below apex, middle 
one curved, running from termen above tornus almost to top of costal 
'patch ; a fulvous suffused dot on lower angle of cell; dorsum slightly 
