MICROLEPIDOPTERA OP NEW GUINEA 
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between 5 and 7+8. Hind wing without cubital pecten; elongate- 
semiovate, under 1, cilia 1 / 7 ; 2 from 2 / 3 , 3 from angle, 3—5 separate, 4 closer 
to 3 than to 5, 6 and 7 connate, gradually diverging, 8 from base, straight, 
parallel. 
Fig. 258: Aphthonocosma plutarclia gen. nov., spec, nov., female, wing neuration 
and head. 
Typus generis: Aphthonocosma plutarcha spec, nov., female. 
A peculiar form, structurally nearest to Enoditis Meyrick, 1912, from 
eastern Siberia, but in fact not related to it. 
Aphthonocosma plutarcha spec. nov. (figs. 258, 259) 
jiIlOvtsui = to be rich, aoy/JZ = leader 
$ 20 mm. Head dark brownish -fuscous, face mixed with yellowish - 
ochreous (damaged). Palpus pale yellowish-ochreous, median segment 
suffused with fulvous posteriorly, and mixed with fuscous above. Antenna 
dark brown, scape yellowish-ochreous (imperfect). Thorax blackish- 
fuscous (damaged). Abdomen dark fuscous, venter and legs light ochreous. 
Fore wing broad, elongate-truncate, moderately dilated. Costa moderately 
curved throughout, more so anteriorly, apex almost rectangular, termen 
hardly sinuate, rounded beneath, slightly oblique. Deep ferruginous- 
fuscous. Upper half of wing from base to slightly beyond middle, and 
from costa to just above fold, ochreous-orange, slightly suffused with 
reddish-fulvous, regularly irrorated with dark fuscous; a moderate sub- 
rectangular transverse, slightly outwardly oblique, pale whitish-yellowish 
spot, somewhat before 3 / 5 of costa, reaching to cell; another similar spot, 
smaller, furcate above, on costa just before apex; a suffused ochreous- 
orange patch in middle of disc at 3 / 6 , edged posteriorly and above with 
fulvous-reddish; an indication of whitish -leaden dotting along and before 
