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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
4 . Markings edged with silvery -whitish lines argyrocyma spec. nov. 
No such lines 5 
5 . Pale streak between central fascia and costal patcli narrow, with a small 
dentation above middle anteriorly hamuligera spec. nov. 
That streak broad, without such dentation 6 
6. Central fascia and costal patch with a median interconnection 
didyma Meybick 
Those markings not interconnected 7 
7 . Anterior edge of costal patch straight paragrapha spec. nov. 
That edge angulate slightly above middle parorthota Meybick: 
8. Bright brownish -ochreous, with four parallel, oblique brown lines 
* tetraulax spec. nov. 
Brownish, with markings scarcely indicated diaphora spec. nov. 
Choanograptis diagrapha spec. nov. (figs. 210, 211) 
diaygapco = to make a sketch 
$ 22—25 mm. Head, palpus, antenna and thorax rather dark brown- 
ish-fuscous. Abdomen whitish-ochreous, tinged with tawny, venter 
slightly infuscated. Legs pale ochreous-tawny, anterior leg infuscated 
above. Fore wing elongate, subtriangular, dilated posteriorly, costa 
considerably curved throughout, apex subacute, termen slightly sinuate, 
little oblique. \ erv pale fuscous touched with rosy, markings well-defined, 
deep coffee-brown and greyish-fuscous, more greyish towards costa, more 
or less narrowly edged with glossy pale lines. Basal patch suffused with 
greyish-fuscous, with edge from before x / 5 of costa to above and before 
2 / 5 °f dorsum, almost straight, oblique, sometimes with a small angulation 
at 1 / 3 ; basal patch suffused with deep coffee-brown below costa to above 
dorsum, this suffusion gradually dilated downward, connected with 
dorsum by a broad greyish indefinite cloud along its anterior third; 
central fascia moderately broad, suffused with fuscous-greyish on upper 
half of wing; anterior edge of fascia slightly convex above, concave above 
dorsum, from J / s of costa to s / 4 of dorsum, suffused with deep coffee-brown 
from just below costa to dorsum; this suffusion narrowed above and 
beneath, in middle reaching halfway across central fascia; posterior edge 
of fascia parallel to anterior, from costa just before middle, this edge and 
posterior half of central fascia obliterate below x / 4 of wing; a small vertical 
erect-ovate deep brown dot on end of cell, with a minute projection above; 
costal patch large, conspicuous, deep coffee-brown, suffused with fuscous- 
greyish towards costa anteriorly, distinctly edged throughout with a 
glossy narrow pale line, anterior edge parallel to that of basal patch, 
posterior edge gradually excavate in middle, top rounded, reaching to 
vein 3 above tornus; dorsal half and terminal area evenly suffused with 
greyish-fuscous, touched with pink, regularly transversely strigulated 
with dark fuscous-grey; a small dark fuscous dot on costa before apex, 
sometimes connected by a vertical dark grey line with terminal line; 
terminal edge narrowly dark fuscous-grev. Cilia greyish-fuscous, touched 
