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MICRO LEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
Parachorista lutescens spec. nov. (figs. 179, 180) 
$ 14 mm. Head, palpus and thorax pale yellowish-whitish, median 
segment of palpus slightly infuscated. Antenna pale ochreous ringed with 
fuscous, scape fuscous. Abdomen whitish, slightly tinged with greyish 
before apex above, pieanal segment black below. Legs pale whitish- 
ochreous, anterior and median tibia infuscated. Fore wing elongate-ovate, 
pointed, costa moderately curved anteriorly, little curved posteriorly, 
apex rather pointed, termen scarcely sinuate, considerably oblique. Pale 
whitish -yellowish, markings light, yellowish-ochreous, slightly suffused 
with tawny. Costa marked throughout with small longitudinal blackish 
streaks; a rather broad, suffused oblique patch on costa beyond base, 
reaching to middle of disc, anterior edge rather distinct, tolerably straight ; 
central fascia rather broad, from costa before middle to dorsum before 
tornus, yellowish-ochreous, slightly suffused with fuscous; upper third of 
this fascia oblique, with tolerably parallel edges, two small dark brown 
dots on costa; middle part of fascia dilated, and more suffused with 
fuscous, in middle of disc with an excavation anteriorly, and an angulate 
projection posteriorly, each with a small dark brown transverse marginal 
mark; lower third of central fascia somewhat more dilated, anterior edge 
concave, posterior edge rounded ; a dark brown short streak along costa 
beyond central fascia, with a narrow ochreous-yellowish strigula parallel 
to that fascia, ending on top of its posterior projection; costal patch 
moderate, semiovate, with three dark brown short streaks along costa, 
separated bv two rounded spots of ground colour; top of patch connected 
with middle of a moderate semiovate spot before middle of termen ; this 
spot connected by less distinct ochreous-yellowish preterminal transverse 
strigulation with apex and tornus; a few dark brown scales scattered in 
middle of disc on edges of markings; a series of small dark brown dots 
along dorsum. Cilia pale whitish -yellowish. Hind wing whitish, touched 
with yellowish, faintly dotted with greyish before apex. Cilia whitish. 
Limen narrow, in middle almost transparent. Ostium moderate, cup- 
shaped, lower edge indent. Colliculum narrow, moderately long, dilated 
towards extremities. Cesturn absent. Ductus bursae long, narrow. Signum 
rather short, dagger-shaped, capitulum rounded, showing retinate struc- 
ture. Ovipositor lobe slender, elongate (Slide No. 468 D). 
Top Camp, 2100 m, January 26, 1939. One specimen. Little related to 
other species, distinct by yellowish tinge, and distinctly separate veins 
3 and 4 in hind wing. 
Heterochorista gen. nov. (fig. 186) 
Head with appressed scales, vertex somewhat rougher scaled. Ocellus 
posterior. Proboscis moderate. Antenna minutely ciliated in female. Palpus 
moderately long, subascending, dilated in middle with roughly projecting 
scales above and beneath, terminal segment moderately long, roughish. 
