MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
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with a fan of very long fine, little appressed, black hairs with bases 
arranged in an oval; cell short: 1 / 3 , 2 from 2 / 3 , 3 and 4 stalked from angle, 
5 closely approximated to stalk at base, 6 and 7 long, connate, diverging, 
7 to apex. 
Typus generis Nilcolaia melanopsygma spec, nov., male, female. 
Dedicated to our son, Nikolai Diakonoff. Structurally nearest to 
Enoditis Meyrtck. Distinct by narrow hind wing with peculiar fan of 
long scales, and short cell. Judging by the male genitalia closely correlated 
with Lophoprora Meyrick, and, less closely, with Garphomigma gen. nov. 
Fig. 260: Nilcolaia melanopsygma gen. nov., spec, nov., female, wing neuration 
and head. 
Nikolaia melanopsygma spec. nov. (figs. 249, 250, 260) 
jueAas = black, y>vypa = a fan 
20 mm, $ 20—22.5 mm. Head, palpus and antenna ochreous-brown, 
flagellum of antenna ringed with dark brown. Thorax dark brown, mixed 
with pinkish-fulvous, a transverse post-median light ochreous-pink band. 
Abdomen greyish-brownish, in male anal tuft brown ish-ochreo us or pale 
ochreous, in female anal segment dark brown, anal tuft oclireous. Legs 
fuscous, ringed with golden -ochreous. Fore wing elongate-ovate, costa 
in male considerably curved throughout, in female strongly arched 
anteriorly, less curved posteriorly, apex subacute, termen slightly sinuate, 
moderately oblique, dorsum rather curved. Whitish -ochreous and 
brownish-ochreous, suffused with fulvous, and dark lilac-grey, marked 
with dark brown. Basal patch suffused with brownish-lilac-grey, mixed 
with fulvous and whitish-ochreous ; margin of this patch narrow, strongly 
