MICRO LEPID O PTERA OE NEW GUINEA 
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Whitish, irrorated with greyish-fuscous, markings greyish -fuscous. Basal 
patch indicated by a somewhat denser greyish-fuscous irroration at base 
of wing, less extended below; costal fold with an elongate patch at 1 / 3 , 
and a smaller one before apex: dark greyish -fuscous; a suffused transverse 
streak from dorsum before tornus towards second costal patch, dark fuscous 
on dorsum, obliterate in middle of disc; costal patch elongate-triangular, 
extending from beyond middle of costa to shortly before apex, fuscous-greyish, 
with four dots along costa, and with top suffused with darker fuscous; 
tornus suffused with dark greyish -fuscous : apical fourth of wing transversely 
strigulated with fuscous-grey, irregular ill-defined oblique strigulae; a mark 
of greyish -fuscous suffusion in disc above tornus. Cilia (imperfect) whitish, 
with an antemedian row of dark grey dots. Hind wing and cilia whitish. 
Uncus elongate-ovate (in mount not quite flattened out!). Socius small. 
Gnathos short. Transtilla knob short-dentate, median projection long. 
Aedoeagus without terminal thorn (Slide No. 426 D). 
Top Camp, 2100 m, January 22, 1939. One specimen. Distinct by small 
size, pointed wing and reduced markings. Nearest to P. euphyes spec. nov. 
Parachorista euphyes spec. nov. (fig. 170) 
evifAirjq = slender 
cj 16 mm. Head, palpus and thorax light grey tinged ochreous, tegula 
suffused with fulvous anteriorly. Abdomen pale greyish -whitish. Legs 
whitish, anterior and median tibia and tarsus suffused with grey above, 
light-ringed. Fore wing elongate, rather broad, costal fold narrow, to 1 / 3 , 
much dilated by long cilia, costa gradually curved anteriorly, scarcely 
curved posteriorly, apex pointed, termen hardly concave above, little 
oblique. Whitish irrorated with pale fuscous-greyish, dotted with blackish- 
fuscous, markings blackish-fuscous, partially slightly suffused with 
fuivous-ochreous. Base of costa with a short streak and a small patch 
beyond this: dark greyish -fuscous ; basal patch with upper half slightly 
suffused with greyish, and faintly suffused with fuivous-ochreous, further- 
more indicated by three angulate transverse tolerably parallel dark fuscous 
lines, posterior one from before 1 / i of costa, running obliquely to above 
middle of disc, thence vertical, to 1 / 3 of dorsum; central fascia indicated 
by a rather narrow oblique transverse streak beyond 1 / 3 of costa, pale 
greyish -fuscous, finely edged with dark fuscous, and anteriorly slightly 
edged with fuivous-ochreous; a dark grey streak along costa; this streak 
reaches 2 / 5 across wing and is connected by faint ochreous suffusion with a 
suffused slightly oblique blackish-fuscous mark below cell before middle 
of wing; a faint greyish-fuscous triangular suffusion on s / 4 of dorsum; 
costal patch ill-defined, pale greyish, elongate-triangular, marked with 
four dark fuscous points along costa, and with a blackish -fuscous elongate 
dot on top; a dark point on lower angle of cell, an oblique row r of dark 
fuscous points from dorsum before tornus, tolerably parallel with termen, 
to middle of wing; two curved, ill-defined series of such points from termen 
