MICROLEPIDOPTERA OP NEW GUINEA 
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densely regularly irrorated with dark fuscous. Antenna pale ochreous, 
ringed with dark brown, scape dark brown. Thorax pale ochreous mixed 
with bright orange-yellow, sometimes suffused with pale fulvous, especially 
on tegulae. Abdomen posteriorly densely scaled, glossy, pale ochreous, 
white at base, anal tuft very large, white. Legs pale ochreous, anterior 
and median legs infuscated, tarsi light-ringed. Fore wing elongate-triangu- 
lar, rather dilated, costal fold narrow, to middle, costa gradually curved 
throughout, apex subacute, termen sinuate, almost vertical. Orange- 
ochreous or yellov-ochreous, scattered with rounded leaden-grey glossy 
spots, markings dark fulvous-grey and ferruginous-brown. Costa suffused 
with dark fulvous-grev except along middle part of lower edge, trans- 
versely strigulated with ferruginous ; leaden -grey dotting more or less 
distinctly arranged in oblique, tolerably parallel transverse series; broadest 
and most distinct series from middle of costa to s / 4 of dorsum, dilated at 
extremities, especially on dorsum and forming an ovate darker suffused 
Spot ; this series of dots preceded by less regular dotting, rather continuous 
along fold, and followed by two more transverse series, which are slightly 
outwardly curved and more oblique; last of these series from beyond 3 / 4 
of costa to middle of termen; sometimes dotting ill-defined, reduced to a 
semiovate moderate brownish dot on 3 / 4 of dorsum, and to a fine trans- 
verse subterminal strigulation; a small deep brown point on discoidal 
vein; terminal edge more or less suffused with darker colour, or with a 
narrow, deep brown line along upper part. Cilia ferruginous-greyish, 
darker along base. Hind wing whitish, faintly tinged with greyish-ochreous 
towards apex, cilia concolorous. 
Tegumen rather elongate. Uncus with a narrow hook which is slightly 
constricted below its rounded top. Socius large, appressed to gnathos which 
has a short slender hook. Transtilla with a long dorsal median projection. 
Valva rather narrow, dilated beyond middle, cucullus densely covered 
with fine bristles, sacculus simple. Aedoeagus slender, somewhat angulate. 
Cornuti, a sheaf of long spines (Slide No. 475 D, holotype). 
Moss Forest Camp, 2800 m, October 14, 1938 (holotype). Iebele Camp, 
2250 m, November 30, 1938 (paratype). Two males. 
Tremophora carycina spec. nov. (figs. 284, 287, 288, 294) 
y.agruwoq = brownish-red 
$ 23 mm, $ 22—23 mm. Head and thorax bright fulvous. Palpus pale 
ochreous, densely and evenly irrorated with deep fulvous. Antenna fulvous, 
more darkly ringed. Abdomen whitish-ochreous, brighter ochreous towards 
apex. Legs pale ochreous, somewhat infuscated above; tarsi light-ringed. 
Fore wing elongate-truncate, in male narrowed, moderately dilated, 
costal fold in male narrowed posteriorly, to middle, costa gradually 
curved anteriorly, straight posteriorly, apex rather acute, termen concave 
below' apex, gradually rounded beneath, hardly oblique. Dull bright 
fulvous, densely regularly retinate with glossy deep fulvous-greyish; this 
