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MICROLEPI DOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
Typus generis Carphomigma leontodes spec, nov., male, female. 
Closely allied to Pyrgotis Meyrick and Catamacta Meyrick, differs 
from both by palpus, absence of costal fold and short -stalked veins 3 and 4 
in hind wing in male, from last named genus also by presence of a double 
thoracic crest and subascending palpi. Also closely allied to the preceding 
genus. 
Fig. 246: Carphomigma leontodes gen. nov., spec, nov., female, wing neuration and 
head (above); male, head (below). 
Carphomigma leontodes spec. nov. (figs. 236, 237, 244, 246) 
X Eovrcodrjg = like a lion 
23 mm. Head tawny-ochreous, slightly mixed with fulvous, face 
paler. Palpus oehreous densely mixed with fulvous except towards base, 
terminal segment ochreous-fuscous. Antenna oehreous, fulvous-ringed. 
Thorax light oehreous, suffused with fulvous anteriorly, whitish-ochreous 
posteriorly. Abdomen pale oehreous, tegurnen mixed with dark grey 
above, valva with a median, and an apical dark grey transverse streaks, 
venter oehreous; suffused with reddish -fulvous laterally. Legs oehreous, 
above dark fuscous, ringed with oehreous. Fore wing broad, elongate- 
subtruncate, dilated; costa curved throughout, somewhat less curved 
before middle, apex obtusely pointed, hardly prominent, terinen gentlv 
sinuate, broadly rounded, slightly prominent below, vertical. Light 
oehreous, densely suffused with tawny-fulvous, more so in middle of disc, 
rather gradually strigulated with outwardly curved interrupted fulvous- 
brownish indistinct strigulac. Basal patch represented by an irregular 
indistinct dark fuscous suffusion on base of disc, more extended below 
fold, with an indication of an acute oblique projection above fold, pointing 
towards costa beyond base; costa with elongate fulvous-fuscous small dots. 
