156 MICROLEPID OPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
from transverse fascia, with a horizontal projection below middle anteriorly 
ioterma Meyrick 
9. Males 10 
Females 15 
10. Fore wing with a. suffused longitudinal submedian dark streak from base of 
wing perstricta Meyrick 
Fore wing without such streak 11 
11. Fore wing with transverse fascia distinct 12 
For wing with transverse fascia ill-defined, much suffused or absent . . 13 
1 2. Small peoies : 13 — 16 mm rufostriatana Pagenstecher 
Large species : 23 mm acropeta spec. nov. 
13. Ground colour whitish -ochreous nebrodes Meyrick 
Ground colour considerably suffused with ferruginous -brown 14 
14. Without silky gloss; costal patch hardly darker than remainder of wing; 
rather dull species aniara Diakonoff 
With strong silky gloss ; costal patch conspicuously darker than remainder of 
wing marmarygodes spec. nov. 
15. Narrow- winged; central fascia distinct 16 
Broad-winged; central fascia cloudy, and ill-defined or absent 17 
16. Brownish, retinate with chestnut-brown .... rufostriatana Pagenstecher 
Brownish-ochreous, retinate with fulvous perstricta Meyrick 
17. Hind wing evenly suffused with rather deep isabel -ochreous 
. nebrodes Meyrick 
Hind wing whitish, if suffused with ochreous, then only along apical half 
18 
18. Without silky gloss; narrower -wmged aniara Diakonoff 
With strong silky gloss; broader -winged marmarygodes spec. nov. 
Adoxophyes controversa spec. nov. (fig. 206) 
d 14 — 17 mm. Head pale ochreous, face fuscous, suffused with dark 
brown. Palpus ochreous-fuscous, suffused with dark brown posteriorly, 
terminal segment dark brown. Antenna light ochreous, ringed with dark 
brown, scape suffused with dark brown, except before apex. Thorax pale 
ochreous, apex until a large dark brown spot. Abdomen pale greyish - 
ochreous, anal tuft and venter pale whitish -och refills. Legs pale ochreous, 
slightly suffused with pale fuscous, anterior leg darker infuscated above, 
median femur with a narrow blackish apical ring. Fore wing broad, rather 
short, ovate-truncate, broadest at 2 / 3) strongly narrowed anteriorly, costal 
fold moderate, to slightly beyond 2 / 5 , edge short-ciliated. Costa strongly 
curved throughout, apex rounded, termen straight, vertical, rounded 
beneath. Pale ochreous, markings brovm. Costal edge narrowly suffused 
throughout with deep ochreous, with a series of small suffused light brown 
specks, confluent anteriorly so as to form a light brown suffusion on base 
of costa; basal patch indicated by a conspicuous small erect triangular 
dark brown patch on 1 / 5 of dorsum, with top continued into a more or less 
distinct irregidar streak to below costal fold, strongly angulate poste- 
riorly, slightly angulate below middle of disc, little distinct above; central 
fascia indicated by an erect-triangular small inwardly oblique brown mark 
on costa somewhat beyond 1 / 3 , reaching J / 4 across wing; inner edge of this 
