MICROLEPIDOPTERA OP NEW GUINEA 
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with greyish -fuscous except in cell, marblecl with dark grey; cilia pale 
ochreous suffused with greyish-fuscous around apex, a greyish-fuscous 
submedian line. 
Tegumen robust, subspheroid. Uncus broad, concave, with a narrow, 
pointed, long apical hook. Socius large, pending, very densely covered 
with long bristles (which actually obscure its outline). Gnathos very short, 
arms narrow, top dilated, subeardiform. TranstiUa, a strong, rising, 
T-shaped plate, with rounded angles and thickened, dentate upper rim. 
Valva broad, simple. Aedoeagus large, subcylindrical, orifice obliquely 
truncate, ending in a sharp point. Cornutus, one huge hook (Slide No, 
804 D, holotype). 
Sigi Camp, 1550—1650 m, February 19, 1939 (holotype). Mist Camp, 
1800 m, January 12, 1939 (paratype). Two specimens. A conspicuous, 
robust insect. 
CNEPHASIINI 
Capnoptycha Meyrick, 1920 
Capnoptycha Meyrick, 1920, Exot. Microl., vol. 2, p. 323. Fletcher, Mem. 
Agrie. Ind., Ent., vol. 11, p. 39, 1929. Diakonoff, Zool. Meded. Mus. Leiden, 
vol. 21, pp. 152-154, figs. 10 D (gen. $), E (gen. J), G (neur.), H (head), 1939. 
Capnoptycha thelea spec. nov. (fig. 283) 
defeog = willing 
o 1 1 mm. Head and thorax pale whitish-ochreous (the latter damaged). 
Palpus subascending, little dilated, pale ochreous, slightly mixed with 
fuscous laterally, except towards apex of median and terminal segments. 
Antenna pale ochreous, flagellum slightly serrate, ringed with dark 
fuscous. Abdomen greyish-ochreous. Legs pale ochreous, mixed with 
fuscous (damaged). Fore wing elongate, little dilated, costal fold rather 
narrow, to beyond middle, costa gently curved anteriorly, straight 
posteriorly, apex subobtuse, termen slightly sinuate above, obliquely 
rounded beneath, dorsum rather arched anteriorly. Whitish-ochreous, 
sparsely transversely strigulated with blackish, and less strigulated with 
ochreous. Costal edge (narrow) brighter ochreous, costal fold except along 
lower edge suffused with dark grey, transversely strigulated with blackish ; 
basal patch indicated by slight greyish indefinite suffusion; central fascia 
indicated by a suffused small vertical streak on middle of dorsum followed 
by another streak in disc, suffused with yellowish-ochreous ; costal patch 
at 3 / 5 , moderate, obliquely -triangular, ochreous-greyish, with a broad 
blackish edge except on costa; this patch followed by two small blackish 
costal dots, posterior dot elongate, in apex ; terminal fourth of wing more 
distinctly transversely strigulated with short blackish marks slightly 
suffused with ochreous, with posterior third of dorsum and tornus less 
distinctly strigulated with cloudy greyish. Cilia pale ochreous with a 
submedian series of blackish dots. Hind wing pale whitish-ochreous, 
