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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
Metaschistis haematina spec. nov. (figs. 318, 319) 
alixdnvoc, = bloody 
$ 21 in in Head dark brown, mixed in middle and along sides of vertex 
with white. Antenna blackish, finely ringed with whitish, scape dark 
brown, apex mixed with w'hite. Palpus deep brown, median segment 
gradually becoming very dark brown posteriorly, along upper edge mixed 
with white towards apex ; terminal segment moderately long, slender, dark 
brown with white base and a lighter brown postmedian ring. Thorax dark 
crimson-brown, a whitish subapical spot on each side, posterior crest and 
apical half of tegula reddish -fulvous. Abdomen pale greyish-ochreous, 
posterior 2 / 3 suffused with grey above. Legs, anterior blackish, median leg 
dark grey, posterior leg light ochreous-grey, anterior and median tarsi 
white-ringed. Fore wing triangular-subovate, broad, costa, moderately 
curved anteriorly, considerably curved posteriorly, apex rather rounded, 
slightly prominent, ternien slightly concave above, rounded beneath, 
little oblique. Blackish-fuscous, partially suffused and spotted anteriorly 
with tawny-olive, posteriorly spotted with pale ochreous-pink; marked 
with black and deep brownish-crimson, scattered throughout except in 
disc and on upper posterior half with glossy pale blue small dots. A deep 
brownish-crimson suffused streak below anterior 2 / 5 of costa; an oblique 
broad patch of tawny-ochreous suffusion becoming tawny-olive on lower 
half; this suffusion running from below second fifth of costa to middle of 
dorsum, strongly narrowed below, upper half and costal edge (which 
remains dark fuscous) transversely strigulated with glossy pale blue; this 
suffusion edged in middle of disc anteriorly with a whitish suffusion; dorsal 
half of wing before this oblique patch regularly irrorated with pale blue; a 
pair of suffused round dots of ground colour below costa posteriorly; 
oblique patch mentioned above followed by a large rounded blotch of 
ground colour somewhat beyond middle of wing, not irrorated with pale 
blue, broadly connected above anteriorly with costa before middle; lower 
edge of blotch acutely angulate, not reaching dorsum ; from middle of its 
posterior edge arises a hardly curved streak to apex; this streak not 
irrorated with pale blue, blackish-fuscous above, deep brownish -crimson 
below; this colour penetrating into preceding patch and dotted with 
blackish on this place ; posterior half of wing suffusedly edged with ground 
colour; this edge broader in apex and along termen; remaining surface 
occupied by pale ochreous-pink suffusion, which forms a less defined 
elongate-triangular patch above, with somewhat inwardly curved top to 
upper angle of cell, and a large erect-rectangular patch below ; these two 
patches sharply separated by the crimson and blackish streak to apex, 
mentioned above ; an elongate transverse inwardly oblique moderate black 
spot above tornus; pale ochreous-pink patches and marginal ground 
colour irrorated with pale blue, this irroration forming three double and 
two small, single transverse marks on costa. Cilia dark fuscous, an inter- 
rupted antemedian line of white irroration, apical third with a row' of 
