MICROLEPIDORTERA OE NEW GUINEA 
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strigulated in middle with blackish-fuscous. Cilia creamy, opposite apex 
and tornus suffused with grey, an antemedian row of blackish-fuscous 
dots. Hind wing whitish, in apex marked with a pair of greyish dots, 
cilia whitish. 
Limen as in preceding, Ostium with lower edge deeply indent. Cestum 
absent. Signum little curved, rather broad, coarsely dentate (Slide No. 
411 D). 
Sigi Camp, 1500 m, February 26, 1939. One specimen. Distinct by 
colouring. 
Parachorista rhopalodes spec. nov. (figs. 163, 171, 172) 
Qonahodrjs = club-shaped 
t? 14 mm. Head white, vertex densely mixed with grey. Palpus dark 
grey, base and apex of median segment whitish. Thorax and tegula grey, 
edged with white, patagium white. Abdomen grey touched with ochreous, 
anal tuft and venter paler. Legs whitish, slightly suffused with grey, 
anterior and median tarsus and tibia suffused and ringed with dark 
fuscous. Fore wing elongate-ovate, rather narrow, costa with a moderate 
fold to middle, gradually moderately curved anteriorly, straight posteri- 
orly, apex subacute, termen slightly sinuate above, obliquely rounded 
beneath, moderately oblique. White, retinate and suffused with grey, 
markings dark grey, ferruginous, and blackish -brown. Basal half of costal 
fold suffused with dark grey; basal patch moderate, slightly suffused with 
pale ochreous, a blackish suffused dot in middle; edge of patch slightly 
angulate above middle, suffused with blackish, its lower half formed by 
an inwardly oblique black patch to dorsum beyond base; a narrow pale 
grey strigula on costa beyond and parallel to edge of basal patch, to above 
middle of disc; central fascia dark brown mixed with ochreous scales, 
posterior half of lower part grey, running from before middle of costa to 
2 / 3 of dorsum, abruptly dilated above middle, lower half of central fascia 
about twice as broad beneath as above, its anterior edge sinuate above, 
with an angulate projection above middle, suffused below; posterior edge 
of fascia straight, mixed with ferruginous above, rounded below; costal 
patch elongate-triangular, from 3 / 5 of costa to before apex, dark grey, 
lower half suffused with ferruginous; a light ochreous suffused vertical 
patch from top of costal patch to vein 3, sometimes absent; terminal and 
apical part of wing coarsely retinate with grey, mixed with ferruginous. 
Cilia white, an antemedian row of suffused grey dots. Hind wing whitish 
tinged fuscous-greyish, more so posteriorly, cilia white, a faint antemedian 
grey line. 
Uncus erect -ovate-diamond shaped. Sclerotisation at base of arm of 
gnathos rounded below. Transtilla knob with long dentations, median 
projection moderate (Slide No. 408 D, holotype). 
$ 17 mm. Head white, thorax evenly greyish (damaged). Abdomen pale 
whitish-ochreous or ochreous-grey. Fore wing pointed-subovate, costa 
