MICROLEPIDOPTERA OP NEW GUINEA 
155 
Colliculum strong, but short. Cestum moderate. Signum with point 
short, little curved (Slide No. 458 D, holotype). 
Moss Forest Camp, 2600 — 2800 m, October 9 — November 5, 1938 
(holotype). Two specimens. Closely allied to preceding, distinct by shape 
of wing, greyish ground colour, paler markings, and absence of conspicuous 
white discal and pretornal spots. 
Adoxophyes Meyrick, 1881 
Adoxophyes Meyrick, 1881, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, vol. 6, p. 429. Trans. 
N. Zeal. Inst., vol. 15, pp. 39 — 40, 1883. Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, vol. 35, p. 
205, 1910. Lepicl. Catal., fasc. 10, p. 13, 1910. Genet. Ins., fasc,. 149, p. 18, 1913; 
in De Joannis, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., vol. 98, p. 710, 1929. Fernald, Gener. Tortr. 
Typ., pp. 42, 60, 1908. Walsingham, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, vol. 5, p. 481, 
1900. Fletcher, Mem. Agr. Ind„ Ent., vol. 11, p. 6, 1929. Diakonoff, Zool. 
Meded. Mus. Leiden, vol. 121, pp. 126, 159 — 162, figs. 41 (head), 4F (neur.), 7F— G 
(gen. <J). 4B (gen. $). 
Adoxophyes is common at medium altitudes but one species penetrates 
as high as Lake Habbema. The species from high elevations are the 
largest in size. 
The genus is difficult and needs a thorough revision, as some species of 
Walker and Pagenstecher are obscure or hardly recognisable at all. 
The following key is given provisionally, pending future opportunity for 
revision. 
Key to the Papuan species of Adoxophyes 
1. Fore wing with a curved longitudinal fascia from base to tornus 
. horographa Meyrick: 
No such longitudinal fascia 2 
2. Fore wing with a slender dark inwardly oblique wedge-shaped mark on dorsum 
before 1 / 4 ; transverse fascia linear, ill-defined .... controversa spec. nov. 
No markings on basal third of dorsum at all or sometimes a rounded or a 
triangular spot 3 
3. Fore wing with a large dark triangular or rounded spot on 1 / 4 of dorsum, not 
connected with costa 4 
No such spot. 6 
4. Fore wing with transverse fascia much dilated below, connected by an angulate 
projection with costal patch fasciculana Walker 
Transverse fascia widely separated from costal patch. 5 
5. Fore wing with transverse fascia well-defined along both edges 
. thoracica Diakonoff 
Fore wing with transverse fascia suffused along posterior edge 
vindicata Meyrick 
6. Fore wing with orange irroration and orange edges to markings. ... 7 
Fore wing without orange irroration, markings not edged with orange . 9 
7. Males 3 
Females teinplana Pagenstecher 
8. Fore wing with costal patch separated by a broad streak of ground colour 
from transverse fascia, without anterior projection below middle 
templana Pagenstecher 
Fore wing with costal patch separated by a narrow streak of ground colour 
