MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
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Aeolostoma Meyrick, 1910 
Aeolostoma Meyrick, 1910, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, vol. 35, p. 182. Lepid. 
Catal., fasc. 10, p. 6, 1912. Gener. Ins., fasc. 149, p. 11, 1913. Fletcher, Mem. 
Agr. Ind., Ent., vol. 11, p. 7, 1929. Diakonoff, Zool. Med. Mus. Leiden, vol. 121, 
pp. 188-189, figs. 5 D, E (head), 5 C (neur.), 7 E (gen. $), 1939. 
Key to the Papuan species 
1. Fore wing without transverse fascia and costal patch; longitudinal markings, 
formed in middle of disc by fuscous-blackish suffusion 
melanostoecha spec. nov. 
Fore wing with transverse fascia and costal patch suffused but noticeable; no 
longitudinal dark markings in disc orophila spec. nov. 
Aeolostoma melanostoecha spec. nov. (fig. 218) 
fieXag — black, azor/og = a line 
<§ 14.5 — 15 mm. Head blackish-fuscous. Antenna blackish-fuscous, 
finely ringed with grey. Palpus dark greyish-fuscous, paler towards base. 
Thorax greyish-fuscous, mixed with tawny and blackish-fuscous. Abdomen 
dark fuscous-grey. Legs dark bronze-grey. Fore wing without costal fold, 
elongate-triangular, rather narrow, costa moderately curved towards 
extremities, straight in middle, apex subacute, termen gently concave, 
very oblique. Costa from base to apex with a narrow blackish streak, 
somewhat dilated and slightly suffused along apical fifth: costal third 
also with a broad pale ochreoxis -whitish streak, gradually moderately 
dilated to end of cell, angularly narrowed thence to costa before apex, 
and bearing two projections reaching to edge of wing, and interrupting 
black costal streak; a narrow streak of light brownish-fulvous suffusion 
along fold, from base to 2 / 3 ; a narrow longitudinal streak of blackish 
irroration just above fold from beyond base, interrupted by an elongate 
white spot beyond 1 / 3 ; thence streak well-defined, running along lower 
edge of cell, slightly curved upward beyond lower angle, pointing towards 
apex, reaching to about 4 / s of wing breadth; this streak forming lower edge 
of a longitudinal long white spot; this spot narrow in middle, dilated at 
anterior extremity to a quadrate spot, posterior extremity cuspidate; a 
moderate longitudinal streak of blackish irroration below fold from some- 
what beyond base to middle of wing; dorsum evenly suffused with 
fuscous-grey; terminal area with a series of white interneural streaks, veins 
between these narrowly marked with leaden -grey mixed with fulvous; a 
marginal row of irregular blackish dots on terminations of veins along 
termen, from apex to tornus; a submarginal row of similar dots, ill-defined, 
before lower half of termen. Cilia pale ochreous mixed with fulvous, 
becoming pale greyish towards termen, basal third fulvous, mixed with 
black throughout, apical third along costa and around apex dark grey. 
Hind wing greyish-fuscous, glossy, cilia pale fuscous, with darker fuscous 
basal band. 
