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MTOROLEPIDOPTERA OP NEW GUINEA 
Key to the Papuan species 
1. Coffee-brown, marked with silvery -white transverse streaks 
rliabdomaga Meyrick 
Ochreous, suffused and marked with fulvous and dark brown 
conspersa spec. nov. 
Epagoge conspersa spec. nov. (fig. 240) 
16 mm. Head and palpus fulvous. Antenna and thorax fuscous. 
Abdomen pale ochreous, whitish towards base, suffused with greyish 
posteriorly. Legs pale ochreous, anterior infuscated, femur fulvous, tibia 
light-ringed. Fore wing without costal fold, broad, dilated, costa strongly 
curved throughout, stronger curved anteriorly, apex obtuse, termen 
slightly concave above middle, moderately oblique. Ochreous, strongly 
suffused with fulvous and dark brown, gradually dotted throughout with 
dark brown, dots moderate, rounded, arranged in curved transverse rows, 
towards termen forming interrupted transverse strigulae. Basal patch 
slightly suffused with fulvous, its edge ill-defined, rather straight, oblique; 
a dark brown suffused streak along dorsum from before base to before 
middle; ground colour between basal patch and central fascia somewhat 
paler, scarcely irrorated; fascia ill-defined, broad, from 1 / 3 of costa to 
posterior fourth of dorsum, suffused with darker brownish-fulvous, 
especially towards anterior edge, which is rather straight and suffused 
with dark brown below, with a narrow dark brown strigula above, and a 
small angulate projection in fold; posterior edge slightly convex along 
upper half, with a projection of dark grey suffusion on end of cell, indefinite 
below this ; costal patch indicated by indistinct moderate fulvous triangular 
suffusion from 3 / 5 of costa to before apex, reaching below to vein 7 ; posterior 
2 / 5 of wing except in apex, suffused with bright ochreous; posterior 2 / 5 of 
costa with about five dark brown dots continued by short strigulae across 
wing; a more conspicuous, curved transverse row of dark brown dots in 
tornus, reaching above to about vein 6. Cilia fulvous, basal half dark 
fuscous. Hind wing whitish, faintly dotted with fuscous; cilia whitish, basal 
half infuscated; cilia elsewhere with a faint greyish antemedian line. 
Tegumen broad, rounded, Uncus moderate, top dilated. Socius small, 
pending, gnathos robust. Valva simple, sacculus sclerotised, with top 
bluntly projecting. Transtilla peculiar: two strong horns bent downward, 
united in middle, basal half scobinate. Aedoeagus pistol-shaped. Vinculum 
weak (Slides No. 501 D, paratype, figured; No. 492, holotype). 
Moss Forest Camp, 2600—2800 m, October 12, 1938. Mist Camp, 1800 m, 
November 18, 1938 (holotype). Rattan Camp, 1200 m, March 5, 1939. 
Three specimens. 
Paradichelia Diakonoff, 1952 (fig. 223) 
Paradichelia Diakonoff, 1952, Proc. Kon. Nederl. Ak. Wetensch., ser. C, vol. 55, 
pp. 384-387 (key to species). 
