MICROLEPID OPTERA OP NEW GUINEA 
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transverse white streaks. Hind wing light bronze-fuscous, becoming 
darker towards apex and costa*. Cilia light fuscous, turning pale fuscous 
towards tips. 
Li men represented by a broad plate, with dilated, short-haired lower 
and rolled up upper part. Ductus bursae simple. Bursa copulatrix mode- 
rate. Signa two clusters of acute thorns (Slide No. 802 D, type). 
Moss Forest Camp, 2600—2800 m, October 9— November 5, 1938. One 
specimen. 
Metaschistis purpurescens spec. nov. (fig. 321) 
$ 15—20 mm. Head and thorax light ochreous, suffused with dark 
mouse-grev, vertex paler. Palpus blackish, suffused with purplish-violet. 
Antenna brownish. Abdomen pale ochreous, suffused with purplish-violet 
posteriorly. Legs bright ochreous-yellowish, tibiae ringed with dark brown, 
posterior femur pale violet. Fore wing ovate-triangular, strongly dilated, 
costa little curved anteriorly, strongly curved posteriorly, apex somewhat 
pointed, slightly projecting, termen slightly concave below apex, gradually 
convex over more than lower half, little oblique. Pale ochreous, suffused 
with light -carmine-violet and slightly suffused with reddish-fulvous, 
markings blackish-brown. Basal 3 / B of wing evenly suffused with light 
carmine-violet; this colour angularly extended along costa to 2 / 3 and along 
dorsum to tornus; an elongate patch of fulvous suffusion reaching, beyond 
cell along veins 3—5, a small suffused patch of the same colour on base 
of 7 and 8 below cell posteriorly; base of costa narrowly suffused with 
blackish, dotted with black beyond this suffusion to middle; two large 
strongly suffused senu ovate black dots on 3 / 5 of costa; three smaller dots 
between these, first and second dots connected by a cloudy dark grey 
suffusion with top of a moderate, somewhat suffused, slightly undulate 
streak running from below 2 / a of costa to 1 / 5 of dorsum, slightly dilated 
towards extremities; a narrow ill -defined streak of greyish suffusion from 
i/ 3 of costa to dorsum beyond middle, slightly dilated below fold; posterior 
fourth of costa with a pale yellowish-grey elongate-ovate patch reaching 
to apex, in apex more yellowish-tinged ; rounded area of ground colour 
on posterior third of wing finely transversely strigulated with blackish- 
brown; a small narrow projection above cell between veins 8—9; an 
inwardly oblique ridge of raised white scales along closing vein, dilated 
below; longitudinal blotches before upper part of termen, formed by 
suffused blackish streaks on veins posteriorly; a narrow curved interrupted 
premarginal projection almost to tornus; a light greyish somewhat curved 
transverse streak on lower half of disc at 4 / 5 ; terminal edge with a pale 
ochreous line, regularly dentate between veins anteriorly. Cilia deep 
greyish violet, tinged with carmine, paler towards tornus, apical half 
mixed with fuscous. Under side of fore wing in both sexes bright yellow 
along edge, this colour followed by carmine-violet, centre of wing dark- 
brown. 
