Philiris parsonsi Müller

♂ (Figs 56–57): Forewing length 13.5 mm, antenna 7 mm (holotype). Head, palpus and thorax dark grey dorsally, white ventrally, abdomen dark grey dorsally, white ventrally, frons grey with white eye ring; legs white with black areas on tibiae; shaft black, ringed conspicuously with white between segments, apex of club brown. Fore wing termen very slightly convex, inner margin very slightly bowed near base, apex slightly rounded; upperside pale lilac-blue, a scattering of white scales in median area, largely concentrated, but not restricted to, the area between veins 2 and 4, apical area broadly dark brown-black, border 5 mm wide at apex, narrowing evenly to meet tornus, cilia dark brown; underside dull white, cell with a large black spot (approximately 1.5 mm wide) about two thirds from base, two smaller obscure brown-black spots surrounding this spot, slightly closer to base and junction of cubitus with vein 3, discocellulars black, forming an elongated spot, cilia white, dark brown-black at vein ends. Hind wing rounded; upperside pale lilac-blue, costa and inner margin dark, termen very narrowly dark brown (hairline thickness), cilia dark brown; underside dull white, two large (approximately 1.5 mm diameter) black spots in cell, about two thirds from base, a much smaller spot close to upper spot on basal side, a large black spot between veins 1a and 1b and another obscure dark brown spot of similar size between veins 1b and 2, both spots about one third from base, discocellulars black, forming an elongated spot, cilia as in forewing underside. Male genitalia (Fig. 73): Vinculum and tegumen ring approximately rectangular-shaped, expanded at sociuncus, sociuncus broad, socii with lateral margin rounded, dorsally socii widely separated by U-shaped sinus, saccus short and squared dorsally, brachium short and abruptly terminated; valva slightly asymmetrical, with right valva larger than left valva, valva rounded with a small protrusion apically; phallus with pre-zonal section shorter than post-zonal section, tapered apically. ♀. Unknown.

Western Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea.