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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
Iriania ochlodes spec. nov. (fig. 756) 
6yh<tl)rf, = tiresome 
$ 1 1 mm. Head light ochreous mixed with dark fuscous, face (damaged) 
pale grey mixed with yellowish? Antenna dark fuscous finely ringed with 
ochreous, a broader ochreous band around apex of scape. I alpus long, 
median segment reaching base of antenna; dark fuscous, finely speckled 
with ochreous, median segment with ochreous base and apex. Thorax, 
abdomen dark fuscous. Legs dark fuscous, spurs and tarsal rings golden- 
whitish (anterior legs missing). Fore wing somewhat elongate-ovate, 
costa curved anteriorly, apex subobtuse, termen gradually rounded, 
oblique, long. Fuscous, basal third and posterior half suffused with 
blackish-fuscous; coarsely irrorated from beyond middle with elongate 
yellow scales, this irroration becoming denser and deeper yellow from 
middle towards tornus ; pale yellow elongate dots : on middle of costa, 
ill-defined, at 3 / 4 of costa and in apex, the last mentioned dot the smallest. 
Cilia (imperfect) pale yellowish densely mixed with blackish-fuscous. 
Hind wing over 2 / 3 ; whitish evenly suffused with pale fuscous-golden, 
towards apex somewhat darker clouded. Cilia light fuscous with golden 
gloss. 
Limen absent. Colliculum developed, rather large, elongate-ovate 
above, truncate below. Signum short, angles subobtuse. (Slide no. 1128 D, 
type-) 
Sigi Camp, 1500 m, February 26, 1939. One specimen. 
Iriania lutescens spec. nov. (fig. 757) 
cj) 8 10 mm. Head light yellow, face, palpus pale yellow. Antenna pale 
yellow finely ringed with brown. Thorax, abdomen dark fuscous. Legs 
fuscous, ringed with pale fuscous. Fore wing elongate-ovate, costa little 
curved, apex obtuse, termen rounded, oblique. Rather light yellowish- 
fuscous, moderately irrorated with (lark fuscous, poster ioi half of dorsum 
and apical fourth of wing pale golden yellow, partially suffused with deep 
orange, forming small ill-defined spots; an ill-defined transverse rather 
broad patch of fuscous suffusion on costa beyond middle, connected in 
middle of disc with a large patch of coarse dark fuscous irroration mixed 
with deep orange, sometimes touching termen above tornus but leaving 
a conspicuous orange-yellow area in apex of wing; a moderate fuscous 
projection extending to 4 / 5 of costa and enclosing a rounded spot of yellow 
ground colour on costa beyond 3 / 4 ; apex narrowly edged with dark fuscous ; 
anterior half of dorsum and fold posteriorly suffused with fuscous. Cilia 
dark fuscous with orange-golden gloss, indistinctly barred above and in 
tornus with pale yellowish, a whitish basal line around apex. Hind wing 
i/ g ; deep golden-bronze, an ill-defined interrupted whitish fine along costa, 
in apex and along upper half of termen. Cilia fuscous-brassy, with a pale 
basal line and darker brassy submedian shade, costal cilia paler. 
