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MICROLEPIDOPTEBA OB NEW GUINEA 
Signum rather long, less curved than in preceding species, capitulum more 
rounded (Slide No. 422 D). 
Moss Forest Camp, five km northeast of Lake Habbema, 2800 m, 
October 1", 1938. One specimen. 
Parachorista stenoptera spec. nov. (figs. 181, 182) 
arsvog — narrow, titeqov = a wing 
$ 17 mm. Head grey, face paler, vertex and collar suffused with dark 
fuscous. Palpus whitish, posterior half suffused with grey. Abdomen pale 
greyish-whitish. Legs whitish, anterior and median suffused with dark 
grey above, white-ringed. Fore wing elongate, not dilated, narrow, costa 
gradually moderately curved anteriorly, slightly sinuate posteriorly, apex 
pointed, termen distinctly sinuate, little oblique. Oreyish-whitish, suffused 
with grey along costa and termen, markings fuscous -grey and blackish- 
fuscous. Base of wing white; basal patch large, evenly suffused with rather 
dark fuscous-grey, anterior edge with a blackish patch on costa, slightly 
mixed with blackish scales in middle of disc, posterior edge oblique, to 
2 / s of dorsum, with a suffused dot above middle, and a small triangular 
mark on dorsum blackish-fuscous ; central fascia narrow, from 1 / s of costa 
to 3 / s of dorsum, dark greyish-fuscous, lower half slightly dilated; anterior 
margin of fascia with upper half straight, lower half less oblique, con- 
siderably serrate, and edged with a blackish-fuscous zig-zag streak which is 
dilated on dorsum; posterior margin of fascia little suffused, slightly 
convex; costal patch narrow, elongate-triangular, greyish, with four dark 
fuscous dots along costa, and one in top; termen suffused with grey, 
sometimes also with fulvous, in holotype with short blackish streaks on 
veins; a greyish transverse blotch before apex. Cilia light grey, an inter- 
rupted antemedian blackish fascia. Hind wing with termen considerably 
sinuate above; whitish. Cilia whitish. 
Limen rather broad, perceptible throughout (i.e., also in middle), inner 
edge semimembraneous, dilated. Ostium rounded-cup-shaped. Colliculum 
separate, small. Cestum short, dilated in bursa, end blunt. Signum narrow, 
sickle-shaped, capitulum rather long, conical (Slide No. 423 D, holotype). 
Moss Forest Camp, five km northeast of Lake Habbema, 2800 m, 
October 16, 1938 (holotype), October 17 — 19, 1938. Three specimens. 
Nearest to P. cricophora spec. nov. 
Parachorista ochranew species (fig. 178) 
ihyoo- = pale 
$ 12 mm. Head greyish -fuscous. Palpus greyish-fuscous, basal segment 
and base of terminal whitish. Thorax greyish -fuscous. Abdomen light grey. 
Legs whitish, anterior greyish -fuscous above, light-ringed. Fore wing 
elongate-ovate, pointed, with a rather broad costal fold, broadest at 1 / 3 , 
edge ciliate, costa gradually curved anteriorly, straight posteriorly, apex 
pointed, termen slightly sinuate above, obliquely rounded below, oblique. 
