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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OP NEW GUINEA 
streak in tomus; costal patch subtriangular, with top truncate; this 
patch suffused with blackish-brown, with two short glossy dark grey 
blotches below costa preceded and followed by brownish -ochreous scales, 
costal patch preceded by almost whitish streak of ground colour followed 
by two small transverse blackish-brown dots on costa before apex, sub- 
terminal area suffused with ochreous-lilac, and marked with two trans- 
verse, somewhat suffused fulvous lines: from i/ s and 3 / 4 of termen, respec- 
tively, both lines above reaching to vein 8; costal and dorsal edges dotted 
along ' markings with blackish-brown. Cilia light ochreous-fulvous, in 
apex deep fulvous, basal half deep fulvous; a fuscous blotch in termen. 
Hind wing light ochreous-fuscous, densely dotted and marbled with 
cloudy brownish, darker towards apex. Cilia pale ochreous, with a cloudy 
apical and a similar antemedian line. 
Ostium flattened. Limen moderate, narrowed in middle. Colliculum 
narrow, cylindrical, upper edge emarginate. Ductus bursae rather wide, 
with fine spiraled structures. Bursa copulatrix ovoid, simple (Slide No. 
487 D). 
Moss Forest Camp, five km northeast of Lake Habbema, 2800 m, 
October 18, 1938. One specimen. Closely allied to preceding, differing by 
shape of wing, and more darkly suffused markings. 
Aplastoceros peneploca spec. nov. (figs. 272, 273, 282) 
nevijs = poor, n/.ov.r\ — texture 
16 mm, ^ 17 mm. Head, palpus and thorax pale ochreous, in female 
slightly tinged brownish, palpus laterally slightly suffused with brownish. 
Antenna pale ochreous, brownish-ringed. Abdomen pale grcyish-ochreous, 
anal tuft brighter ochreous, venter dark grey. Legs pale ochreous, anterior 
blackish, median and posterior tarsi and outer spurs infuscated, all tarsi 
light-ringed. Fore wing elongate-triangular, dilated, base narrow; in male 
with a rather narrow costal fold to slightly beyond middle, with costa 
little curved throughout, apex subacute, termen sinuate, vertical; in 
female costa more curved anteriorly, faintly sinuate posteriorly, apex 
more projecting. Male pale ochreous, female tinged pale fulvous, markings 
dark brown. Costal fold slightly suffused with greyish, transversely 
strigulated with dark brown; basal patch moderate; in female this patch 
slightly suffused with darker brownish, with edge angulate in middle, 
vertical; in male basal patch marked with a suffused dark brown dot 
below costa, lighter brown below, and with a small suffusion along base 
of dorsum; wing in female irregularly finely marked with deep brown 
from costa to above middle of disc, with a brownish suffusion below and a 
subtriangular small suffused deep brown mark on dorsum; central fascia 
indicated in male by an interrupted suffused somewhat inwardly oblique 
streak at 2 / 5 , followed by a small suffusion on dorsum; in female this fascia 
indicated by a small oblique dark brown mark on x / 3 of costa; costal patch 
conspicuous, sharply edged, triangular, somewhat erect in female, rather 
