MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
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Tegumen short, depressed. Uncus absent. Socius broad, semiporrect. 
Transtilla absent. Valva elongate, disc bristled, costa with a very long 
bristle, cucullus indefinite, sacculus projecting distally in a curved beak, 
bristled above. Aedoeagus short, spindle-shaped. Cornuti, two moderate 
spines (Slide No. 625 D). 
Moss Forest Camp, five km northeast of Lake Habbema, 2800 m, 
October 21, 1938. One specimen. Nearest to S. rhopica Meyrick, from 
Assam. 
Spatalistis argyrosperma spec. nov. (fig. 297) 
aoyvQOQ = silver, aneqixa = a seed 
g 15 mm. Head pale ochreous, side tufts yellowish-ochreous mixed with 
fulvous. Palpus yellowish-ochreous, suffused with pale fulvous. Antenna 
brownish, scape pale ochreous. Thorax pale ochreous, suffused yellowish - 
fulvous, tegula light fulvous and lilac-greyish. (Abdomen missing.) Legs 
pale yellow, anterior knee dark fuscous, anterior tibia and tarsus ringed 
with blackish, base of tibia above with a pencil of broad lancet-shaped 
scales appressed to tibia and reaching to its apex. Fore wing elongate-ovate, 
rather narrow, costa little curved throughout, with a narrow ciliated fold 
to 2 / 5 , apex pointed, termen sinuate, much oblique. Ochreous-orange 
scattered with sparse rounded pale ochreous spots, markings suffused 
ferruginous-lilac, several oblique transverse rows of dark leaden shining 
round patches. Costal fold pinkish-ochreous, transversely strigulated with 
dark fuscous; a ferruginous-lilac suffusion along costal third of wing from 
base to middle, anteriorly extended across wing to middle of disc; along 
base of wing and along basal fourth of dorsum this suffusion scattered 
with dark leaden shining rounded spots, posteriorly confluent with a rather 
narrow suffused oblique transverse fascia; this fascia gradually narrowed 
below, marked with shining spots and reaching to above dorsum before 
torn us; anterior edge of fascia with a large angulation on end of cell: an 
oblique ferruginous-lilac suffusion occupying less than posterior third of 
wing except apex ; anterior edge of suffusion from 2 / 3 of costa to tornus, 
concave, ill-defined below, posterior edge convex; three dark leaden 
shining rows of connected roundish spots, from below costa to tornus 
and termen, first two rows tolerably parallel to anterior edge of above 
mentioned suffusion, anastomosing with each other at 1 / s , third row more 
curved, thicker, running along posterior edge of suffusion; a transverse 
row of some three rounded pale ochreous spots at 3 / 4 between costal edge 
and cell, one more, larger spot beyond cell, smaller such spots irregularly 
scattered over wing between basal suffusion and central fascia ; some four 
small slightly raised patches of blackish shining scales along fold, one 
above fold and three below it; posterior half of costa pale ochreous, with 
four elongate ferruginous -greyish dots. Cilia pale yellowish-ochreous, basal 
half brighter ochreous; in tornus cilia dark lilac-grey. Hind wing and 
cilia pale whitish-ochreous, glossy. 
