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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
grey, towards base and on apical tuft paler. Legs black, in female white- 
ringed, posterior femur and tibia dark grey, paler in female; anterior coxa 
white. Fore wing elongate-subtruncate, narrow, dilated, costal fold in 
male thickened, moderate, to %, costa slightly curved along fold, straight 
posteriorly; costa in female slightly curved at base, straight posteriorly, 
slightly prominent beyond 3 / 4 ; apex rather pointed, termen gently sinuate, 
rather oblique. Black, markings white. In male a strongly meandering 
rather narrow streak on lower half of wing from base to termen, at base 
strongly convex and reaching above fold, enclosing a semicircular or sub- 
triangular spot of ground colour on dorsum beyond base, touching dorsal 
edge anteriorly; this spot dilated dorsad, its upper edge with a semicircular 
excavation; spot along dorsum reaching from about x / 5 to beyond middle, 
including a semiovate black marginal spot on 1 / 3 of dorsum which is some- 
times larger, triangular and interrupts the white streak; this streak rather 
angularly bent upward beyond middle of wing and reaching slightly 
above middle of disc, thence rather straight to dorsum before tornus; this 
streak narrowly interrupted before dorsum, once more curved upward in 
tornus and running parallel to lower half of termen as far as its middle, 
leaving a narrow terminal line of ground colour; a subtriangular slightly 
outwardly oblique moderate spot at 1 ,/ 3 of disc above middle; a slightly 
sinuate very oblique streak from beyond upper angle of cell to costa before 
apex, suffused above, connected with costa anteriorly by an outwardly 
oblique streak of white irroration; this streak also connected with costa 
beyond middle by a less oblique short suffused white branch; scattered 
white scales on lower half of costal fold, except towards base and in disc 
below posterior half of fold. In female costa with pairs of white transverse 
marks, becoming minute beyond middle; basal patch white, along costa 
suffused with blackish to beyond one fourth except on the above mentioned 
pairs of transverse marks, posterior edge of basal patch with strong acute 
projection in middle, serrate above dorsum ; a strongly curved black 
mark from dorsum beyond base to fold, thence along fold almost to 
posterior edge of basal patch, base of mark triangularly dilated on dorsum; 
a meandering, irregular white fascia from dorsum before middle to costa 
before apex, bifid on costa, with upper edge slightly suffused, concave 
along its upper 2 / 3 ; lower edge of fascia well-defined, with a pair of rounded 
projections below middle, deeper excavate above and especially below 
those projections, also including a black point below its middle; an 
angulate white mark along dorsum before tornus, in tornus and before 
lower half of termen corresponding, with posterior part of white fascia in 
male; disc below costa slightly scattered with whitish scales, indistinctly 
connecting a pair of whitish costal marks at 3 / 4 with upper part of trans- 
verse fascia; a white dot before termen above middle. Cilia black with a 
cloudy whitish median band and a few scattered white scales. Hind wing 
grey, in male posterior half suffused with dark fuscous-grey; cilia light 
grey, basal half grey-fuscous. 
