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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OE NEW GUINEA 
Tegumen erect. Uncus moderate, top erect-ovate. Socius elongate, 
pending. Gnathos moderate, hook long, little curved. Transtilla moderately 
broad, membraneous. Valva narrow, elongate, costa excavate at base, 
cucullus with a strong scobinate thorn, with a group of long bristles at base. 
Vinculum strong. Anellus rounded. Aedoeagus short, straight. Cornuti, a 
sheaf of stout short spines. Coremata of seventh segment very large (Slide 
No. 499 I), paratype). 
Scree Valley Camp, 3800 m, September 16, 1938. Three specimens. 
Aeolostoma orophila spec. nov. (fig. 241) 
ooo? — a mountain, tpiJJo) ■= to Like 
g 14.5 mm. Head and palpus brownish-black. Antenna rather thickened, 
greyish ringed with black, scape black, apex pale ochreous. Thorax 
blackish mixed with tawny-fuscous. Abdomen blackish, dark grey towards 
base, anal tuft large, grey anteriorly, pale ochreous posteriorly. Legs 
bronze-brown, tibiae blackish ringed with white. Fore wing without costal 
fold, moderately broad, dilated, costa little curved anteriorly, straight 
posteriorly, apex subacute, termen hardly concave above, obliquely 
rounded beneath, rather oblique. Dark grey, marked with ferruginous, 
scattered with ferruginous and ochreous scales; a moderate basal patch, 
costa before middle and a broad central fascia, dark grey; central fascia 
strongly angulate, mixed with ferruginous in middle of disc, suffused 
above with blackish, below with blackish anteriorly, with fulvous pos- 
teriorly; basal patch and central fascia connected along dorsum by a patch 
of somewhat modified (smaller) light fuscous-grey scales; space between 
patch and fascia pale whitish-grey, anteriorly and posteriorly narrowly 
edged with deep ferruginous; costal patch rather ill-defined, triangular, 
occupying slightly less than third fourth of costa, top on base of vein 6 ; this 
patch dark grey scattered with ferruginous scales; costal patch preceded 
bv a moderate pale whitish -ochreous oblique fascia from middle of costa, 
reaching to dorsum before tornus, suffused anteriorly, and in middle 
with brighter ochreous, below ill-defined, suffused with fulvous; tornal 
area suffused with fulvous and dark grey, anterior edge straight, vertical 
to top of costal patch; apical fourth of wing suffused with blackish-grey, 
transversely strigulated with deep ferruginous, apex suffused with 
ferruginous, terminal edge narrowly suffused with blackish, dorsum and 
posterior half of costa with narrow pale ochreous longitudinal marks. 
Cilia blackish-grey suffused with ferruginous, apical third light fulvous 
except opposite apex and along costa. Hind wing dark fuscous-grey, with 
coppery -bronze gloss; cilia dark fuscous-grey with a blackish antemedian 
shade. 
Tegumen broad. Uncus moderate, elongate, top with long bristles 
above, strong short bristles beneath. Socius elongate, pending, long- 
bristled. Gnathos rather small, hook broad. Transtilla strongly sclerotised, 
broad, extremities curved downward, a long median projection below. 
