MICROLEPIDOPTERA OP NEW GUINEA 
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tinged throughout with ferruginous; a small black patch on dorsum. Hind 
wing pale ochreous, suffused with brownish-ochreous posteriorly, faintly 
marbled with greyish; cilia pale ochreous with an antemedian and an 
apical grey shade. 
Tegumen erect, narrowed. Uncus constricted in middle, top ovate- 
rounded. Socius small, pending. Gnathos rather slender, with a very long 
hook. Transtilla absent. Valva very narrow, sacculus irregularly strongly 
dentate, with a blunt projection at the extremity. Aedoeagus bent and 
bluntly dentate beyond middle, constricted below apex which is bluntly 
dentate, with a large strong hook. Cornuti, a sheaf of spines (Slide No. 
519 D, holotype). 
$ 17 mm. Head light ochreous, vertex mixed with light brown. Palpus 
moderate, slender, light ochreous, median segment irregularly mixed with 
light brown , terminal segment light brown anteriorly. Antenna ochreous 
ringed with brown. Thorax smooth, ochreous, suffused with brown . 
Abdomen ochreous, suffused with greyish-fuscous, dark fuscous posteriorly, 
venter dark fuscous. Legs deep ochreous, tarsi fuscous, ochreous-ringed. 
Fore wing elongate-truncate, costa strongly arched anteriorly, deeply 
sinuate posteriorly, apex subacute, projecting, termen strongly sinuate, 
rounded beneath. Pale ochreous and light fulvous, evenly rather densely 
suffused except towards apex with greyish-lilac, especially in middle of 
wing, transversely strigulated with ferruginous. A pair of oblique fer- 
ruginous lines on 1 / 3 of costa indicating central fascia, undulate and 
considerably diverging below, to middle of disc; costal patch erect- 
triangular, with base along costa from before middle to before apex, with 
top reaching to vein 6, sides slightly convex : rather narrowly edged with 
dark fuscous, along costa with four short darker streaks, centre greyish- 
lilac; this costal patch broadly edged posteriorly by pale ochreous; 3 / 5 of 
wing densely suffused with leaden-lilac, an indistinct suffusion on base 
and a series of some five ill -defined curved vertical strigulae in middle of 
disc: ferruginous; posterior fifth of wing light whitish-ochreous, densely 
mixed and transversely strigulated with fulvous, more so towards tornus ; 
suffused moderate vertical streaks before apex and upper half of termen. 
Cilia (imperfect) bright fulvous, around apex and upper 3 / 4 of termen 
ferruginous; a less distinct preapical ferruginous line, except in tornus. 
Hind wing ochreous-brownish, with bronze gloss, darker posteriorly; cilia 
whitish-greyish, basal half rather dark fuscous. 
Ostium moderate. lumen a broad band, narrowed in middle. C'olliculum 
long, irregularly plicate. Ductus bursae tortuous, sclerotised throughout. 
Bursa copulatrix ovoid, simple (Slide No. 520 D, allotype). 
Mist Camp, 1800 m, January 8, 1939 (allotype, female), January 11, 
1939 (paratype), January 15, 1939 (holotype, male). Two males, one 
female. 
