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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
rather distant projections. Socius moderate, porrect. Gnathos a trans- 
verse band. Valva long, rather narrow, gradually curved upward, costa 
with a series of long bristles beyond base, saceulus weak. Aedoeagus 
moderate. C'ornuti a sheaf of long spines. Anellus long (Slide No. 811 D, 
type). 
Araucaria Camp, 800 m, March 28, 1939. One specimen. 
Argyroploce lamyra, Meyrick 1911 
Argyroploce lamyra Meyrick, 1911, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, vol. 36, 
pp. 268-269. Bomb. Journ. Nat. Hist. Soc., vol. 21, p. 870, 1912. 
Distribution: New Guinea: Woodlark Island, Sudest Island. Ceylon. 
Bernhard Camp, 50 m, October 17, 1938. One male, differing from the 
original description in colouring of the cilia in fore wing which are lilac- 
crimson with a basal and an apical black lines. 
In that description the termen of fore wing is recorded as being nearly 
straight and vertical; this applies, however, only to the female; the 
termen in male is considerably rounded. This elegantly coloured species 
shows a remarkable aberrantly shaped hind wing in male: the wing is 
strongly narrowed and has a tornal and a dorsal separate lobes. 
Argyroploce harmonica (Meyrick, 1905) 
Platypeplus harmonica Meyrick, 1905, Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc., vol. 16, 
p. 584. 
Argyroploce philocom,psa Meyrick, 1921, Zool. Meded. Mus. Leiden, vol. 6, p. 158. 
. Argyroploce harmonica, Diakonoff, Bijdragen Dierk., vol. 28, p. 136, 1949. 
Distribution: Ceylon; Java. 
Sigi Camp, 1500 m, February 17, 1939. One female, with fore wing 
slightly broader and with posterior half more tinged with dark brown, 
instead of fulvous than in the specimens from Java, but otherwise quite 
alike. 
Argyroploce leucocteis spec. nov. (fig. 324) 
hevxog = pale, xretg = a comb 
(? 22 mm. Head, palpus and thorax fuscous-grey, face paler below, 
vertex grey, tuft above face blackish, basal segment of palpus and base 
of median pale yellowish-whitish, median segment with two black marks 
in middle of upper edge, thorax tinged tawny, pectus pale sandy-ochreous- 
whitish. Abdomen dark fuscous, anal tuft below pale ochreous, venter paler 
ochreous anteriorly. Legs pale sandy-ochreous-whitish, posterior tibia 
and tarsus with extremely large, dense scale-brushes dorsally, grey 
becoming whitish towards tip of tarsus. Fore wing elongate-subt run cate, 
broad, dilated, costa considerably curved anteriorly, straight posteriorly, 
apex subrectangular, termen faintly concave above, vertical, rounded 
beneath. Whitish-tawny anteriorly, lilac posteriorly, densely streaked 
with dark fuscous, edged with pale tawny- whitish lines; costa with 
