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oblique. Light chestnut -brown tinged ochreous, costa anteriorly and 
apical fourth of wing suffused with deep chestnut -brown becoming reddish 
towards apex; transversely strigulated with interrupted narrow lines 
anteriorly being light chestnut-brown, posteriorly becoming darker brown, 
towards costa becoming reddish and suffused with dark grey between 
transverse strigulae ; an indication of a narrow transverse inwardly oblique 
reddish-fulvous line along end of cell, reaching almost to dorsum; strigula- 
tion on posterior dorsal fourth of wing dark ferruginous-brown ; a row of 
rounded reddish-brown dots along dorsum posteriorly; an ill-defined spot 
of dark brown irroration before upper half of termen; a series of short 
indistinct interneural subterminal dark brown streaks. Cilia dark greyish- 
brown mixed with fulvous (much damaged). Hind wing light orange- 
ochreous, densely suffused and finely marbled with dark grey; cilia dark 
brownish-grey with pale middle and base, an ochreous patch on termen 
before tornus. 
Ovipositor lobes broad, top narrowed. Limen, two large median ovate 
plates touching each other. Ductus bursae long, narrow, simple. Bursa 
copulatrix small, weak, simple (collum of spermatophore long, coiled in 
bursa) (Slide No. 459 D, type). 
Moss Forest Camp, 2600—2800 m, October 13, 1938. One specimen. 
Allied to preceding. 
Fig. ,303 : Taeniarcliis 
poliostoma spec, nov., 
female genitalia. 
Dicellitis Meyrick, 1908 
Dicellitis Meyrick, 1908, Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc., vol. 18, p. 618. Lepid. 
CataL, fasc. 10, p. 53, 1912. Gener. Ins., fasc. 149, p. 52, 1913. Fletcher, Mem. 
Agr. Ind., Ent., vol. 11, p. 67, 1929. Diakonoff, Zool. Meded. Mus. Leiden, vol. 21, 
pp. 213-214, figs. 11 S (head), R (neur.), 16 B (gen. $), 16 C (gen. ^), 1939. 
Key to the Papuan species of Dicellitis 
1. Fore wing with a complete median transverse fascia 2 
Fore wing without a complete transverse fascia 3 
