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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
semiovate. Transtilla complete (single), dentate at the sides. Cestum 
absent. Signum a hollow dentate thorn, or absent. 
Typus generis Hiceteria heptatoma spec. nov. , male. 
Intermediate between Pyrgotis Meyrick and Catamacta Meyrick, 
nearest to the first named, distinct by absence of costal fold in male, and 
not crested or but slightly crested thorax; from the last named genus it 
can be discriminated by subascending palpus in male and by vein 2 in fore 
wing originating distinctly before middle of lower edge of cell, instead of 
from far beyond middle, viz. from 3 / 5 , as in the type of that genus, Cata- 
macta gavisana Walker. Also closely allied to the following genus, but 
differing by the shape of palpi and by the absence of a well-developed 
double thoracic crest. 
Key to the species of Hiceteria 
1. Fore wing with 6-7 spindle-shaped, oblique, silvery transverse streaks . . . 
heptatoma spec. nov. 
Not thus ^ 
2. Hind wing in female dark fuscous-grey (male with metallic dots before apex 
and along termen) stannosa spec. nov. 
Hind wing in female pale fuscous retinate with dark grey (male unknown). 
heterogona spec. nov. 
Hiceteria heptatoma spec. nov. (figs. 243, 245) 
Ejird = seven, te/ivo) . = to cut 
^ 29—32 mm. Head, palpus and antenna deep fuscous-brown. Thorax 
without crest, dark brown. Abdomen pale ochreous-fuseous, segments 
with posterior transverse fuscous bands, becoming broader posteriorly, 
anal segment with a dark fuscous triangular patch, anal tuft pale ochreous, 
venter brighter ochreous. Legs ochreous, anterior suffused with dark 
brown. Tore wing elongate-subovate, moderately broad, dilated, costa 
moderately curved anteriorly, less curved posteriorly, (appearing slightly 
concave before middle because of roughish costal cilia along posterior 
part), apex subacute, termen hardly concave in middle, almost straight, 
considerably oblique. Deep lilac-brown, faintly transversely strigulated 
with ferruginous, suffused with dark coffee-brown except along costa, in 
apex and along ter min al edge : markings silvery-white, glossy. A moderate 
oblique streak on base below fold, somewhat diverging from base of dorsal 
margin; six oblique tolerably parallel transverse more or less sinuate 
moderate spindle-shaped fasciae in disc, from rather below costa to above 
dorsum, acute at extremities, narrowly edged with ferruginous alternately 
anteriorly and posteriorly, i.e. first one edged anteriorly, second one edged 
posteriorly, etc.; first fascia almost straight, second sinuate, third inter- 
rupted above middle, with upper part curved; fourth fascia longest, 
almost to tornus, inwardly sinuate, slightly diverging from fifth, which is 
outwardly sinuate, small ; space between fourth and fifth fasciae somewhat 
