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MICRO LEPIDOPTEIIA OF NEW GUINEA 
moderately broad. Cornuti, a thick sheaf of short blade-like spines. Vin- 
culum rounded (Slide No. 825 D, type). 
Rattan Camp, 1200 m, February 12, 1939. One specimen. 
PERONEINI 
Spatalistis Meyriok, 1907 
Spatalistis Meyrick, 1007, Jourri. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc., vol. 17, p. 978, Proc. 
Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, vol. 35, p. 286, 1010. Clener. Ins., fasc. 149, p. 5, 1913. Rev. 
Handb. Brit. Lep., p. 518, 1927. Fletcher, Mem. Agr. Ind., Ent., vol. 11, p. 206, 
1929. Diakonoef, Zool, Meded. Mus. Leiden, vol, 21, pp. 225-226, figs. 11 Q (head), 
11 P (neur.), 16 E, F (gen. £, ?), 1939. 
Ivey to the Papuan species 
1. Ground colour clear pale yellow or light yellow 2 
Ground colour pale ochreous or ochreous -yellowish . 4 
2. Finely retinate with lilac violacea spec. nov. 
Markings not lilac 3 
3. Large oval reddish-brown patch on dorsum centred with yellow 
perusta spec. nov. 
Markings not only on dorsum nummifera Meyrick 
4. Wing densely suffused with fuscous except on a wedge-shaped costal spot and 
on extreme apex argyrosperma spec. nov. 
Wing not thus suffused, basal patch, two transverse fasciae and a terminal 
fascia distinct conchodes Meyrick 
Spatalistis perusta spec. nov. (fig. 301) 
15 mm. Head and thorax bright yellow, the latter with a blackish- 
brown reddish-edged apical spot. Palpus bright yellow, median segment 
suffused with reddish laterally. Antenna pale ochreous-yellowish, minutely 
banded with reddish. Abdomen pale ochreous, whitish towards base, 
suffused with greyish in middle above. Legs ochreous, anterior femur 
suffused with fulvous above, anterior tibia with two blackish rings, tarsus 
dark fuscous, pale ringed. Fore wing without costal fold, elongate-ovate, 
dilated, costa little curved throughout, apex pointed, termen slightly 
sinuate, oblique. Bright yellow, a deep ferruginous-reddish elongate-ovate 
spot edged with reddish suffusion dilated posteriorly; this spot reaching 
along dorsum from before base to tornus, and across wing to below costa, 
with anterior edge inwardly oblique, upper edge tolerably parallel to costa, 
posterior edge more oblique than termen; this spot bearing in centre a 
moderate ovate spot of ground colour suffused with reddish ; two rounded 
suffused black spots: first connecting central spot with tornus and second 
spot beyond central spot; yellow above mentioned spot irregularly dotted 
throughout with larger and smaller dark leaden-grey round shining spots. 
Cilia bright yellow, blackish in tornus. Hind wing whitish, suffused with 
yellowish posteriorly; an indication of a faint fulvous suffusion on end of 
fold; cilia pale yellowish, touched with fulvous opposite end of fold. 
