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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OP NEW GUINEA 
transversely ovate spot above toruus, brownish, edged with dark brown. 
Cilia ochreous-fulvous, basal half whitish with a darker fulvous anteme- 
dian line, in tornus cilia paler with a basal row of suffused brown dots. 
Hind wing ochreous-whitisli, slightly tinged brownish, and dotted with 
grey posteriorly. Cilia whitish, in apex and along upper half of termen 
with a subbasal fulvous fascia. 
Tegumen broad, extremely short, uncus moderate, circular. Socius, a 
short row of minute bristles. Gnathos short, with a long narrow hook. 
Valva very small, concave, plicate on disc. Transtilla knob moderate, 
dentate. Vinculum moderate. Aedoeagus short (Slide No. 648 D, holotype). 
Ostium rounded-cupshaped, lateral arms narrow. Colliculum moderate. 
Cestum absent. Ductus bursae narrow, bursa spheroid. Signum small, 
little curved, capitulum elongate (Slide No. 649 D, allotype). 
Moss Forest Camp, 2800 m, October 9— November 5, 1938 (allotype, 
female), October 18, 1938 (holotype, male). Two males, two females. 
Distinct by light brownish colouring and large size. 
Homona Walker, 1863 
Homona Walker, 1863, List. Lep. Het. Brit. Mus., vol. 28, p. 424. Meyrick, 
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, vol. 35, p. 210, 1910. Lepid. Catal., fase. 10, p. 14, 
1912. Gener. Ins., vol. 149, p. 19, 1913; in Db Joannis, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., vol. 98, 
p. 710, 1931. Walsingham, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Lep. Het., vol. 4, p. 207, 1913. 
Fletcher, Mem. Agr. Ind., Ent., vol. 11, p. Ill, 1929. 
Godana Walker, 1866, List Lep. Het. Brit. Mus., vol. 35, pp. 1800-1801. 
Ericia Walker, 1866, tom. cit., p. 1802. 
Aesioscopa Zeller, 1877, Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross., vol. 13, pp. 104-108. 
Anisogona Meyrick, 1881, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, vol, 6, pp. 464-465. 
Ericiana Strand, 1910, Soc. Ent. Stuttgart, vol. 25, p. 34. 
Capua (Stephens), Walsingham, (nec Httbner), Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., ser. 7, 
vol. 5, p. 482, 1900. 
Key to the Papuan species 
1. Males 2 
Females 6 
2. Hind wing dark grey 3 
Hind wing orange-ochreous 4 
3. Fore wing with costa moderately arched, faintly sinuate in middle, termen 
faintly sinuate above, prominent beneath mermerodes Meyrick 
Fore wing with costa strongly arched anteriorly, considerably sinuate posteriorly, 
termen considerably sinuate, somewhat oblique .... homaqama Meyrick 
4. Fore wing without costal fold aestivana Walker 
Fore wing with costal fold 5 
5. Costal fold broadly semiovate; costal patch represented by a curved streak 
from before 2 / 3 of costa to termen above tornus .... phanaea Meyrick 
Costal fold elongate-semiovate; costal patch represented by an elongate- 
semiovate spot on costa from before 2 / 3 to shortly before apex, with an oblique 
projection to termen above tornus trachyptera Diakonoff 
6. Fore wing with costa abruptly strongly arched at base, straight posteriorly. 
mermerodes Meyrick 
Fore wing with costa strongly but gradually curved at base, sinuate posteriorly 7 
