MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
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suffused with white laterally, white towards apex above, terminal segment 
blackish mixed with white, tip wiiite. Abdomen ochreous-greyish, suf- 
fused with darker grey above posteriorly, anal tuft, greyish and white 
Legs pale ochreous, femora dark grey above, tarsi dark fuscous above, 
both ringed with white. Fore wing elongate-subtriangular, dilated, rather 
broad, costa gradually moderately curved throughout, apex rounded, 
termen straight, almost vertical. White, suffused and retinate with fuscous- 
grey, slightly sprinkled with light fuscous, markings darker fuscous-grey, 
partially edged, and dotted with black. Basal patch ill-defined, moderate, 
edge almost vertical, strongly angulate in middle, top of angulation con- 
nected with a quadrate discal blackish patch just above fold, fuscous-grey 
marbled with white and blackish, narrowly edged with black; transverse 
fascia broad, oblique, from costa before middle towards dorsum before 
tornus; dark fuscous-grey, retinate with blackish, obliterate below’ fold; 
anterior margin of fascia slightly sinuate, with a small angulation below 
middle, mostly this margin rather indistinct; posterior margin well- 
defined, twice excavate, edged with blackish, forming a narrow horizontal 
blackish streak in middle of disc; a rounded conspicuous spot of white 
ground colour above middle of disc; this spot strongly excavate below this 
streak, excavation filled w r ith slight fulvous-greyish suffusion; basal half 
of costa suffused with dark grey; middle of disc slightly tinged w’ith light 
fulvous; dorsum suffused with fuscous-greyish; costal patch dark fuscous- 
grey, elongate-triangular, from before 2 / 3 of ccsta to before apex, marked 
with three blackish costal dots alternating with whitish ones, preceded 
on costa by a black point, follow’ed by a fuscous-brownish dot before apex; 
top on vein 7 with a large very oblique transverse dark fuscous-grey blotch, 
dotted with black, reaching with acute point almost to tornus; an angulate 
black anterior projection on upper end of this blotch, sometimes connected 
with end of horizontal projection from central fascia; this blotch curved, 
narrowed below, enclosing a rounded conspicuous white patch of ground 
colour opposite tornus; preapical costal dot connected by a narrow 
blackish vertical preterminal strigula with a round black dot before upper 
third of termen; apical third of wing distinctly transversely strigulated 
with fuscous. Cilia white barred with grey, basal half blackish-grey barred 
with white opposite apex. Hind wing rather light brownish-fuscous, paler 
towards base; cilia grey with a fuscous antemedian shade. 
Tegumen short, almost ovate. Un cus with top very densely bristled below. 
Socius rather small, semiovate. Transtilla knob with scarcely narrowed 
base. Valva short, sacculus little angulate (Slide No. 456 D, holotype). 
£ 27 — 28 mm. Head and palpus more mixed with white, thorax suffused 
with blackish in middle. Fore wing with costa strongly curved anteriorly, 
less curved posteriorly, apex rounded, very slightly projecting, termen 
scarcely concave above, rounded beneath, vertical. White, strigulated 
and retinate with grey and blackish, markings dark grey, scarcely in- 
fuscated, no fulvous suffusion. Part of central fascia, and portion of top of 
