MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
159 
£ 26 mm, allotype. Head thorax and abdomen ochreous, palpi suffused 
brownish. Fore wing broad, with costa gradually curved from base to 3 / 4 , 
straight posteriorly, apex obtuse-pointed, termen slightly sinuate above, 
rounded beneath. Tawny-ochreous, hind wing somewhat darker. Central 
fascia indicated by some dark scales on 2 / s of costa and on 3 / 4 of dorsum ; 
costal patch narrowly edged with brown, suffused with brownish-lilac, 
with anterior edge from before 2 / 3 of costa to termen above tom us; edged 
with dark brown, serrate, posterior edge indicated by a vertical brownish 
strigula from costa before apex to middle of termen; a minute brownish 
terminal strigula beyond this strigula; a pair of minute brownish transverse 
marks on costa beyond middle of costal patch. Hind wing light tawny- 
ochreous, glossy, towards apex moderately suffused and marbled with 
deeper tawny. Cilia in fore and hind wing tawny-ochreous. 
Limen moderately broad, much narrowed in middle. Ostium small, 
dorsal wal I formed by a moderately broad band. Bursa copulatrix elongate. 
Signum a moderate, ovate, denticulate plate (Slide No. 399 1), allotype). 
Bernhard Camp B, 100 m, April 10 — 12, 1939 (allotype, female, April 
12, 1939). Araucaria Camp, 800 m, March 21, 1939. Four males, two 
females. Male with hind wing pale yellowish-ochreous, cilia pale ochreous. 
Perhaps correlated with A. bematica Meyrick from the Solomon Islands, 
but darker, differing also by the edging of the costal patch. 
Adoxophyes acropeta spec. nov. (fig. 208) 
a 'xqov = top, TiETOfiai = to fly 
cJ 25 mm. Head brownish, face above suffused with dark ferruginous- 
brown. Palpus light brownish-ochreous, posterior half and terminal 
segment suffused with dark ferruginous-brown .Antenna ochreous-brownish, 
finely ringed with dark brown. Thorax ochreous-fuscous (damaged). 
Abdomen whitish -ochreous, anal tuft pale ochreous. Legs light ochreous 
(posterior legs missing). Fore wing elongate-truncate, costal fold strong, 
dilated in middle, to about 1 / 3 ; costa curved along anterior 2 / s , straight 
posteriorly, apex little rounded, rectangular, termen slightly sinuate, 
vertical. Light ochreous, suffused and strigulated with light fulvous, 
markings blackish-brown. Base of costa suffused with light fulvous, with 
about four narrow blackish-brown strigulae, second and fourth continued 
across wing to an elongate dark blackish-brown, purplish tinged suffusion 
occupying basal 2 / 5 of dorsum, except extreme base of wing; posterior 
edge of this suffusion rather well-defined, indent; central fascia dark 
blackish-brown, purplish tinged, formed by a triangular, almost vertical 
moderate patch on 1 / 3 of costa , its anterior edge connected by a suffused 
narrow streak with anterior edge of a subquadrate suffused patch on 2 / 3 of 
dorsum; costal patch indicated by a fulvous elongate-ovate suffusion along 
posterior third of costa reaching almost to apex, its anterior edge continued 
by a slightly sinuate series of blackish-brown points from 2 / 3 of costa to 
termen above tornus and along this to tornus; another series of such 
