MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
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males, one female. A true Lobesia but with colouring and markings con- 
siderably differing from the ordinary type. 
Lobesia tritoma spec. nov. (figs. 306, 307) 
$ 12 mm. Head light brownish-fuscous. Palpus brownish, basal segment 
whitish. Thorax pale fuscous, mixed in middle with whitish. Abdomen 
greyish-fuscous. Legs pale ochreous, anterior and median tibia and tarsus 
fuscous, pale-ringed. Fore wing elongate, dilated, costa little curved, 
apex obtuse, termen gently rounded, straight in middle, oblique. Pale 
tawny-ochreous, partially suffused with tawny, markings fuscous and 
dark fuscous more or less marked and edged with blackish. Basal patch 
small, with edge angulate in fold, upper half more oblique than lower half. 
A moderate oblique wedge-shaped dark fuscous transverse streak from 
i/ 4 of costa almost reaching dorsum: a rather irregular central fascia from 
middle of costa, much dilated below and occupying posterior 2 / a of dorsum ; 
upper 2 / 3 of this fascia dark fuscous, finely edged and coarsely irrorated 
in disc with blackish, remaining portion of fascia forming a rather light 
greyish-fuscous triangle, anterior lower angle of this triangle with a 
moderate dark tawny-fuscous spot on dorsum, posterior angle with a 
smaller similar clot; anterior edge of central fascia with a moderate 
triangular blackish projection below middle touching following transverse 
fascia which connects two dark fuscous elongate dots on 3 / 5 of costa with 
tornus and lower half of termen ; lower third of this fascia bifid ; edges of 
fascia undulate, posterior branch constricted above middle; fascia dark 
fuscous, becoming tawny towards tornus, finely edged with blackish 
above, interrupted below costa by a longitudinal light tawny streak and 
irrorated with black above and below this; apical area fuscous, marked 
with vertical blackish strigulae just before apex and before upper fifth 
of termen ; costa between markings whitish, transversely strigulated with 
dark greyish -fuscous, three pairs of small whitish marks along posterior 
fourth of costa. Cilia pale tawny, basal third brighter fulvous-tawny; 
leaclen-grey bars: one on costa before apex and two opposite upper half 
of termen. Hind wing dark bronze-fuscous; cilia whitish-greyish, basal 
half fuscous, a fine pale basal line. 
Ostium and limen forming a ring, broader ventrally. Ductus bursae 
long, coiled along lower third, simple. Bursa copulatrix moderate, erect- 
ovoid, simple (Slide No. 826 D, type). 
Rattan Camp, 1200 m, March 4, 1938. One specimen. With markings 
of the ordinary Lobesia type. 
Endothenia Stephens, 1852 
Endothenia Stephens, 1852, List Brit. Anim. Brit. Mus., vol. 10, p. 28. Heinrich, 
1926, U.S. Nat, Mus. Bull. 132, p. 100, fig. 48. Meyrick, Rev. Handb. Brit. Lep., 
p. 565, 1928. Fletcher, Mem. Agr. Ind., Ent., vol. 11, p. 77, 1929. 
