MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
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Arctephora gen. nov. (fig. 261) 
dijxrfj = bearskin, rpenoj = to wear 
Head with face covered with rather smoothly apprcssed scales, vertex 
with long roughish hairs, side tufts of long fine scales, highly raised and 
forming a large fan at each side, touching each other over vertex. Ocellus 
small, posterior. Proboscis developed. Antenna in male without notch, 
with scape elongate, rather stout, densely scaled, flagellum moderately 
ciliated, (filiations under 1. Palpus moderately long, ascending, rather 
appressed to face, median segment with dense short, appressed scales, 
hardly projecting above and beneath, gradually, but little dilated, terminal 
segment short, thick, obtuse. Thorax with a short, thick bifid crest, tegula 
very broad, strongly elongate by long apical fringe of scales. Abdomen 
with thick fine lateral pencils of long hairs at base, posterior half with 
long hairs laterally. Fore wing without scale-tufts, with a strong and 
broad costal fold to x / 2 which is fringed along edge with very long hair- 
scales, upper half of cell with long fine hairs on under side of wing, vein 1 2 
Fig. 261: Arctephora iubata gen. nov., spec, nov., male, wing neuration and head. 
on under side with a short tuft of scales beyond base, projecting down- 
ward; lb furcate at base, 2 from beyond ®/ 4 , 3 from angle, closely approxi- 
mated to 4, 5 not approximated, 7 separate, from angle, to termen, 10 
closer to 11, 11 from about middle. Hind wing with a streak of dense 
hairs along cubitus, closely appressed to wing membrane above that vein; 
upper surface with a large brush on base of anal veins, and with fine 
long hairs on dorsum as far as vein la; 2 from beyond middle, 3 and 4 
connate from angle, 5 closely approximated ,6 and 7 closely approximated 
and soldered along basal 1 / 4 . 
Typus generis Arctephora iubata spec, nov., male. 
Nearest to Ctenopseustis Meyrick, 1885, from New Zealand and South 
