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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OE NEW GUINEA 
with darker grey, cilia light greyish-ochreous, with a narrow dark grey 
antemedian line. 
Ostium broad, shallow. Limen curved downward at the sides, narrow, 
little curved in middle. Cestuin strong, short, forming a cordiform lobe 
below. No cestum. Bursa copulatrix ovoid. Signum robust, wedge-shaped, 
without capitulum (Slide No. 619 D). 
Moss Forest Camp, 2600-2800 m, October 9— November 5, 1938. One 
specimen. 
Hiceteria stannosa spec. nov. (figs. 220, 242) 
17 mm. Head deep ferruginous. Palpus light fuscous. Antenna 
blackish, flagellum faintly ringed with pale grey. Thorax with a very 
slight crest; dark brown, suffused with ferruginous in middle anteriorly. 
Abdomen ochreous-greyish. Legs pale ochreous-greyish, anterior and 
median legs suffused with blackish, light-ringed. Fore wing elongate- 
subtruncate, moderately dilated, costa curved throughout, more so 
anteriorly, apex subacute, termen slightly concave above, moderately 
oblique. Deep coffee-brown, slightly suffused with light brown, marked 
with numerous round silvery-leaden glossy dots with bluish iridescence, 
partially confluent. A rather ill-defined oblique silvery-leaden moderately 
broad transverse fascia from before 1 / 4 of costa to 2 / 5 of dorsum, slightly 
narrowed on costa, with edges irregularly -undulate; another similar 
fascia from costa slightly beyond middle to dorsum before tornus, gradually 
dilated in middle; base of wing throughout and upper half of wing between 
those fasciae dotted with silvery -leaden ; middle of dorsum to fold slightly 
suffused with light brown; a slightly curved inwardly oblique small 
shining silvery-white patch just beyond cell, between veins 5—6; apical 
fourth of wing gradually densely dotted with glossy silvery-leaden, these 
dots larger and brighter along margin of wing, running along termen and 
tornus to base of second transverse fascia; subterminal and tornal areas 
slightly suffused with light brown. Cilia ochreous-fulvous, fuscous in apex, 
basal half deep reddish-brown throughout. Hind whig with veins 6 and 7 
stalked; pale fuscous-greyish faintly dotted with greyish along costa, and 
in apex, cilia pale fuscous-greyish, tinged brownish towards base. 
Uncus somewhat narrower than in H. heptatoma. Socii broader. Hook 
of gnathos longer. Transtilla broader in middle, lateral knobs narrower. 
Valva somewhat narrower, sacculus to 2 / s . Aedoeagus shorter (Slide No. 
620 D, holotype). 
$ 22 mm. Head and palpus deep reddish-fulvous, terminal segment oi 
palpus light ochreous, extreme tip ferruginous. Antenna deep ferruginous, 
scape fulvous. Thorax greyish-lilac, suffused with ferruginous anteriorly. 
Abdomen dark lilac-grey, darker posteriorly, venter greyish-ochreous. 
Legs greyish-ochreous, anterior and median suffused with dark fuscous 
above, with lighter articulations. Fore wing elongate-truncate, little 
dilated, broadest in middle, costa strongly curved anteriorly, less curved 
