MICROL EPIDOT’TEKA of new guinea 
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Valva short, ovate. Vinculum slender. Acdoeagus rather short, little 
curved; cornuti not perceptible (Slide No. 498 D). 
Letter Box Camp, 3600 in, September 5, 1938. One specimen. The 
somewhat thickened antenna and the peculiar shape of the male genitalia 
show little relation with the preceding species; it seems to be a true 
Aeolostoma, nevertheless, judging by the neuration and the entire facies 
of the insect. 
Head with rather short little appressed scales, face densely scaled. 
Ocellus posterior. Proboscis short and weak. Antenna in male short-ciliate, 
in female minutely ciliate. Palpus rather long, in male subascending, 
slender, median segment covered with closely appressed scales, dilated 
posteriorly, broadest at 3 / 4 , lower edge tolerably straight, upper gradually 
Fig. 245: Hiceteria heptatoma gen. nov., spec, nov., male, wing neuration and head. 
curved, terminal segment moderate, obtuse; palpus in female slightly 
drooping, median segment with roughly projecting scales above, rather 
smooth beneath, terminal segment moderate, slightly drooping. Thorax 
without crest, or with a very slight crest. Fore wing without costal fold, 
2 from 2 / 3 , 3 from angle, 3—5 separate, rather remote, equidistant, 5 
parallel, 7 and 8 short-stalked, 7 to termen, 10 from 4 / 5 , 11 from 1 / 2 . Hind 
wing -without cubital pecten, with a moderate pencil of hairs on base of 
vein lb above, 2 from before middle, 3 from angle, 3—5 separate, more or 
less approximated at base, G and 7 closely approximated towards base or 
stalked. 
Uncus with a broad, rounded top. Socius small. Valva simple, broadly 
Hiceteria gen. nov. (fig. 245) 
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