142 MICROLEPIDOPTERA OP NEW GUINEA 
band. Thorax in male white, suffused with dark grey anteriorly; thorax 
in female ochreous-whitish, shoulder suffused with tawny. Abdomen 
whitish. Legs ochreous-whitish, anterior and median tibia and tarsus 
suffused with blackish in male, suffused with dark fuscous in female, pale- 
ringed. Fore wing elongate, narrow, dilated, especially in male; costa in 
male with a strong thickened fold to 3 / 5 , concealing a pencil of long white 
hairs; costa, gradually moderately curved throughout, apex rather pointed, 
termen straight above, rounded beneath, moderately oblique. Whitish- 
greyish or pale ochreous, densely irrorated and retinate with pale and 
dark fuscous, less so in male; in female also more or less suffused along 
costa and posteriorly with brownish-tawny; markings of rather varying 
colour: in male dark fuscous-grey, in female fuscous-brown to blackish- 
fuscous. Male. Costal fold light grey, towards base and along upper edge 
suffused with black; lower edge of costal fold with a row of about six 
dentate black dots posteriorly to before extremity of that edge; costa 
beyond fold somewhat darker greyish, indistinctly dotted with dark 
fuscous grey ; an irregular large patch of blackish-fuscous suffusion in disc, 
obliquely produced across fold, dilated below fold and faintly reaching 
dorsum ; ill-defined patches of similar suffusion below fold, viz. beyond 
base of wing and above dorsum; a cloudy rounded spot of dark fuscous 
suffusion above and slightly before torn us below middle of wing, nearer 
to lower edge of cell than to termen, sometimes almost connected by 
transverse undulate coarse dark greyish-fuscous strigulation with costa; 
sometimes this strigulation forming a more or less distinct patch along 
posterior third of costa to apex, connected by a more distinct undulate 
streak with termen above tornus ; dorsum with a row of rounded greyish 
dots. Female. More ochreous, tawny or fuscous-tinged. Anterior half of 
costa with five moderate blackish-fuscous dots alternating with minute 
transverse strigulae; third and fifth dot each connected by a suffused 
undulate oblique transverse line with diseal patch ; posterior half of costa 
with five larger triangular dots, becoming still larger towards apex, last 
dot apical; discal markings fuscous-black, more or less suffused, some- 
times less distinct; these markings consisting of a rounded spot on fold 
beyond base connected by an oblique streak of fuscous suffusion with 
dorsum beyond base; of a large strongly inwardly oblique discal patch 
along fold just below middle of wing, occupying somewhat less than 
second fourth of wing length, if well-defined then formed by an elongate 
spot between fold and coll and by a smaller diamond-shaped spot below 
fold, strongly projecting anteriorly; sometimes this part fulvous; a rounded 
spot above and before tornus, upper anterior end angulate, pointing 
towards lower edge of cell, lower edge suffused, sometimes this spot small; 
a streak of tawny suffusion just below and along fold, not reaching dorsum, 
paler and broadly dilated posteriorly, so as to connect posterior half of 
fold with posterior half of costa, leaving a preterminal area of ground 
colour which is densely transversely strigulated and irrorated with dark 
