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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
posteriorly suffused with pale tawny. Antenna fuscous, darker towards 
apex, pale cohreous towards base, scape light grey, tinged greenish. Palpus 
tawny-whitish, posterior half of median segment and entire terminal 
segment light greenish-grey. Thorax pale tawny somewhat suffused with 
greenish-grey anteriorly except on tegulae. (Abdomen missing.) Legs and 
pectus whitish-ochreous, coxae mixed with black, tibiae and tarsi suffused 
with tawny, black-banded. Pore wing broad, dilated, truncate, costa 
curved, rather oblique to 2 / 3 , apex obtuse-rectangular, termen sinuate 
above, broadly rounded beneath, vertical. Dove-grey, touched with bluish, 
paler towards costa, darker deep dove-grey on dorsum anteriorly, markings 
olive-green, black and white. Base of wing suffused with pale tawny, this 
suffusion irregularly projecting along fold, less extended along dorsum 
than along costa; extreme base of costa greenish-grey ; a black oblique 
transverse streak from costa beyond base to above dorsum well beyond 
base, almost interrupted at 1 / 3 by a small pale tawny longitudinal streak 
with rounded top ; lower extremity of this streak almost parallel to dorsal 
edge; this edge pale ochreous tawny; an elongate small black spot on 
costa beyond this streak, preceded and followed by minute greyish and 
black dotting on costa, below connected with a suffused ochreous-tawny 
spot : an ovate spot of dark greenish-grey suffusion along second fourth 
of dorsum, hardly reaching fold; central fascia moderately broad, sharply 
edged, from costa somewhat before middle to dorsum beyond 3 /u upper 
three-fourth oblique, lower fourth vertical ; anterior edge of fascia with 
upper half straight, oblique, in middle of wing with a large pending 
arrow-head-shaped projection, slightly inwardly oblique, top rounded, 
reaching well below fold, base horizontal : edge of fascia below this pro- 
jection bent in middle, convex above dorsum; posterior edge of central 
fascia oblique and moderately bent below costa, rectangularly emarginate 
just above middle, thus forming two rectangular projections which enclose 
a snow-white subquadrate spot; lower projection connected by a rising 
branch with 2 / s of costa; lower half of posterior edge of central fascia 
sinuate; central fascia dark olive-green, paler in disc below middle, with 
a black longitudinal streak above middle of disc, anterior margin edged 
with a narrow pale ochreous line: above middle, along lower part of 
pending projection and above dorsum; posterior branch of fascia dark 
olive-green with lower third black: dilated almost to form a circle below 
costa, abruptly narrowed beyond white discal spot; a small suffused olive 
spot above middle of disc before central fascia, separated from this fascia 
by pale ochreous line mentioned above; central fascia posteriorly edged 
by a narrow white suffused line dilated to a white suffused streak above 
tomus ; an erect patch of greenish-grey suffusion before termen not rea- 
ching costa and tomus, touching central fascia above; costa anteriorly 
white with blackish transverse marks, posteriorly dark olive green with 
white marks, on central fascia finely dotted with black; indistinct whitish 
dots on termen above middle. Cilia ochreous-grey. Hind wing fuscous, 
