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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OE NEW GUINEA 
segment whitish. Abdomen light greyish. Legs whitish touched with 
fuscous, anterior tibia and tarsus dark fuscous-grey, light-ringed. Fore 
wing narrow, dilated, acutely pointed, costa gradually curved anteriorly, 
apex acute, termen slightly sinuate, moderately oblique. Whitish, irrorated 
with greyish-fuscous and blackish-fuscous, markings dark brownish- 
fuscous. Basal tw r o-fifth of wing transversely obliquely strigulated and 
irrorated with greyish -fuscous, strigulation accentuated by groups of 
black scales in disc beyond base, and at L / 5 ; a small blackish -fuscous 
transverse mark on dorsum before middle; central fascia moderately 
broad, from 2 / 5 of costa to 3 / 4 of dorsum; dark brownish fuscous, anterior 
edge faintly projecting below costa; a fuscous-greyish suffusion connecting 
this fascia with anterior edge of costal patch and extending beyond its top 
and beyond end of cell, with posterior edge slightly suffused with brownish, 
below not reaching fold ; costal patch elongate-ovate, retinate with dark 
brownish-fuscous, bearing four dark greyish-fuscous dots along costa; an 
oblique rather broad blackish-fuscous subterminal streak from termen to 
below r apex, in tornus with a triangular projection reaching to lower angle 
of greyish-fuscous suffusion above mentioned; upper two-tliircls of this 
streak with three rather broad oblique branches, running almost to 
posterior edge of costal patch, narrowed above, finely anastomosing with 
each other; apex suffused with light greyish-fuscous. Cilia whitish, tip 
touched with greyish, basal half with a row of blackish dots. Hind wing 
whitish, towards apex faintly touched with pale ochreous, and retinate 
with pale greyish; cilia whitish, with a pale fuscous antemedian 
line. 
Limen narrow, angulate, dilated before middle and forming a small 
ovate thickening on each side before ostium, which is funnel-shaped. 
Colliculum perceptible. Cestum absent. Signum moderately long, little 
curved, capitulum elongate, slightly clavate, a little curved (Slide No. 
429 D, holotype). 
3 H.5 mm. Palpus rather slender, dark grey, base whitish. Fore wing 
elongate-ovate, pointed, little dilated, moderately broad, costal fold 
narrow, ciliated, to beyond 2 / s , costa gradually moderately curved 
anteriorly, slightly curved posteriorly, apex acute, termen almost straight, 
considerably oblique. Base of costa with a dark grey streak; upper half 
of base of wing suffused with dark grey; central fascia and costal patch 
suffused with dark grey along costa ; dark subterminal markings ill-defined. 
Tegumen slender, long. Uncus with rounded-ovate top. Socius moderate. 
Transtilla knob with moderately broad median projection (Slide No. 
436 D, allotype). 
Mist Camp, 1800 m, January 11, 1939 (holotype, female, allotype, male), 
December 28, 1938. Two males, one female, males in admaged condition. 
Distinct by peculiar terminal markings and rather pointed fore whig. 
