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MICROLER1DOPTARE OP NEW GUINEA 
It seems preferable to regard this genus as distinct from Peronea 
Curtis, 1824. 
Polyortha ornithopora spec. nov. (fig. 302) 
oqviq — a bird, 7idgo; = a feather 
$ 19 mm. Head and thorax white, mixed with dark grey, tegula anteri- 
orly and apical crest suffused with dark grey. Palpus white, median 
segment with two transverse bands and apical third except extreme apex, 
dark grey; terminal segment whitish mixed with grey, a broad subapical 
band, blackish. Abdomen pale golden-ochreous, towards apex above 
suffused with greyish. Legs white, anterior femur with small longitudinal 
fuscous streaks, anterior tibia and tarsus blackish, white-ringed. Fore 
wing elongate-ovate, costa curved throughout, apex pointed, termen 
slightly sinuate, rather oblique. White, suffused and transversely strigulated 
with leaden-grey and finely strigulated with light brown, marked with 
black and partially suffused with dark brown. Costa transversely strigu- 
lated with leaden-grey, dotted with black; a small transverse black line 
beyond base; three larger subtriangular dots beyond this line to middle; 
first dot largest, continued by an interrupted transverse strigula of black 
raised scales to fold ; a narrow black line indicating edge of a small basal 
patch, almost straight, slightly inwardly oblique from below costa to 
above dorsum; transverse undulate black strigulae along fold ending by a 
suffused greyish -blackish transverse ridge cf raised scales from middle of 
disc to dorsum beyond middle; a broad suffused transverse band at 3 / 4 , 
slightly inwardly oblique, with anterior edge ill-defined, from 2 / 3 of costa 
to dorsum beyond middle; posterior edge of this band more distinct, 
strongly' angularly excavate, from about end of vein 9 to beyond lower 
angle of cell, thence to termen above tornus; this band suffused with 
dark grey on costa and dorsum, suffused with dark brown in disc, trans- 
versely strigulated with raised black strigulae; a vertical black ridge of 
scales in middle of band from below costa to above dorsum ; posterior third 
of costa with four blackish marks corresponding with dark bars on costal 
cilia, a rounded jet-black dot below each of the three anterior marks; 
posterior projection of transverse band in tornus marbled with black; a 
transverse blotch of blackish retination and dotting before termen from 
apex to above tornus; terminal area suffused with leaden-grey along 
veins. Cilia light brown, barred with white, a broad antemedian dark 
brown fascia, a black patch opposite tornus. Hind wing and cilia light 
brownish-ochreous, the latter with a faint darker antemedian line. 
Ostium broad. Limen sclerotized, rather broad, straight, laterally slightly 
dentate above. Colliculum annular. Ductus bursae short. Bursa copulatrix 
erect-ovoid, simple (Slide No. 628 D). 
Top Camp, 2100 m, January 29, 1939. One specimen. 
