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ICMROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
scales not forming a continuous line; two moderate black dots, on upper 
and on lower angle of cell respectively ; small black points scattered along 
and below costa, along termen, in and above tornus; dorsal third of wing 
with minute short transverse dark fuscous strigulae. Cilia pale straw- 
ochreous; a black point on base opposite apex. Hind wing rather dark 
grey-fuscous with faint bronze gloss; cilia pale straw-ochreous. 
Male genitalia rather similar to those of the genot ype ( Bactra lanceolana 
HiiBNER, from Europe). Uncus with top elongate. Socius small, elongate, 
appressed to uncus. Valva with base little dilated, costa not projecting, 
cucullus obliquely truncate, sacculus with a round patch of long bristles, 
followed by a smaller patch of shorter ones, which is continued across disc 
by a row of some five more bristles. Aedoeagus spheroid (Slide No. 795 D, 
type). 
Letter Box Camp, 3600 m, September 12, 1938. One specimen. 
Lobesia Stainton, 1859 
Lobesia Stainton, 1859, Manual, vol. 2, p. 266; etc. 
Key to the Papuan species 
1. Fore wing with two conspicuous blackish dorsal blotches, at 1 / 3 and on middle 
paradisea spec. nov. 
Fore wing without such blotches tritoma spec. nov. 
Lobesia paradisea spec. nov. (figs. 308, 309, 310) 
cJ, $ 18 mm. Head tawny. Antenna pale ochreous, ringed with dark 
fuscous. Palpus tawny, basal segment below white, median segment with 
a dark fuscous basal band, middle of lower edge suffused with pale tawny, 
upper half irrorated with dark fuscous. Thorax tawny, apex of tegula pale 
ochreous, scales of posterior crest tipped with blackish. Abdomen dark 
greyish-fuscous, towards base tawny, anal tuft pale tawny-ochreous. Legs 
ochreous-whitish, tarsi light tawny, anterior and median tibia and tarsus 
banded with dark fuscous above. Fore wing elongate-triangular, rather 
narrow, broader and more dilated in female, costa tolerably straight, 
slightly bent and prominent, with a small marginal thickening at 4 / 5 , apex 
rather rounded, termen moderately rounded in male, little rounded in 
female, moderately oblique. Whitish, touched with pale ochreous, moder- 
ately suffused and transversely strigulated with tawny, partially suffused 
with light leaden-grey; markings light tawny, black and leaden-grey. 
Basal patch large, formed by an elongate patch from base of costa extending 
below fold to beyond */ 4 of dorsum, and by a moderate subtriangular spot 
at 1 / 5 of costa; acute top of the latter patch connected with upper edge 
of the above mentioned dorsal patch before end of that edge ; both these 
spots suffused with tawny and dark leaden-grey, coarsely transversely 
strigulated and edged with black, edge of spot below fold slightly sinuate, 
