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MICROLEPIDOTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
costal patch below costa; costa dotted with dark ground colour along 
white markings, sparsely dotted with white posteriorly; apical and 
terminal area irrorated with whitish, transversely strigulated with dark 
fuscous; a curved somewhat suffused narrow white streak parallel to 
posterior part of central fascia and almost connected with it below, 
running from about vein 7 to termen above tornus. Cilia (imperfect) dark 
fuscous, white along upper half of termen and opposite tornus, with a dark 
bar in tornus. Hind wing brownish-fuscous, a transverse dark fuscous 
suffusion in apex and along upper fourth of termen; cilia dark greyish- 
fuscous with a pale basal line. 
Gnathos long, porrect, without hook. Valva rather narrow, hardly 
dilated, costa with a pointed projection beyond middle, cucullus rather 
densely bristled, a group of strong long bristles in disc at 1 / 3 , a small 
bristled knob before this group. Aedoeagus long, slender (Slide No. 805 D, 
type). 
Sigi Camp, 1500 m, February 18, 1939. One specimen. 
Anathamna Meyrick, 1911 
Anathamna Meyrick, 1911, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, vol. 36, p. 261; etc 
Key to the Papuan species of Anathamna 
1. Fore wing with a large snow-white patch in middle of dorsum 
chiono'pyra spec. nov. 
No such patch 2 
2. Fore wing with a deep brown basal patch anthostoma Meyrick 
Fore wing without such patch ostracitis Meyrick 
Anathamna chionopyra spec. nov. (fig. 327) 
yuhv = snow, tivq = fire 
$ 13.5 mm. Head, palpus and thorax fulvous, tips of scales pale ochreous 
on thorax, which is tinged with fuscous in middle, terminal segment of 
palpus greyish. Antenna ringed with dark fuscous, scape fulvous. Abdomen 
light ochreous, suffused with greyish. Legs pale ochreous, anterior and 
median tibia and all tarsi dark fuBcous, pale-ringed. Fore wing elongate, 
moderately broad, costa considerably curved throughout, less so before 
apex, apex rounded, projecting, termen sinuate, moderately oblique. 
Brownish-fulvous, faintly suffused with darker brown in middle, evenly 
sprinkled with pale ochreous and in middle of disc minutely sprinkled 
with white, apical third of wing not irrorated, orange-fulvous; 2 / s of costa 
with about eight narrow oblique dark brown strigulae contrasting with 
minute transverse silvery -white strigulation on costa between these; 
posterior half of costa with four pairs of small, wedge-shaped white 
oblique marks; posteriorly these marks becoming more approximated to 
each other, thus pairs becoming narrower but more distinct, anterior 
