MTCROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
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Iriania mystica spec. nov. (figs. 752, 760) 
(IVorueSg = secret 
10 mm. Head glossy bronze-fuscous. Antenna blackish-fuscous, 
ringed with pale yellow. Palpus and collar (damaged) pale yellowish, 
terminal segment of palpus infuscated along front. Thorax and abdomen 
blackish-bronze. Legs dark bronze, posterior tibia mixed with yellowish 
towards apex, tips of spurs and rings on apices of tarsal segments pale 
golden-yellowish. Fore wing ovate, apex tolerably pointed, termen long, 
moderately rounded, oblique. Brownish-fuscous with faint purplish gloss, 
irrorated with yellowish-ochreous scales which form an ill-defined direct 
broad transverse band at middle, an irregular transverse irroration at 3 / 4 , 
extending as far as 4 / 6 , and tending to form transverse strigulae, and an 
irregular, ill-defined, dilated, submarginal line along lower half of termen, 
mixed with dark brownish-fuscous and merging into preceding irroration; 
a rounded large spot of ground colour before apex, not irrorated with 
ochreous. Cilia ochreous, partially infuscated, basal half and an apical 
band brown, costal cilia dark brownish-fuscous. Hind wing 3 / 4 , deep 
bronze, dorsal edge with purplish gloss. Cilia bronze, basal half dark bronze 
with slight purplish gloss. 
Uncus small, triangular, top hooked. Gnathos broad, top rounded, 
denticulate above. Valva elongate, costa indicated throughout, posterior 
third forming an acute hook curved downward, cucullus absent; sacculus 
almost 1, bristly along posterior half, ending in a short point. Anellus 
forming a bilobed sheath around aedoeagus, upper edge of each lobe with 
two small rounded, hairy projections. Vinculum rounded. Aedoeagus 
moderately curved. Cornuti apparently a huge spike and two long arrows. 
(Slide no. 1125 D, type.) 
Lower Mist Camp, 1600 m, January 15, 1939. One specimen. 
Iriania anisoptera spec. nov. (fig. 755) 
ai naoQ = inequal, jiteqov = wing 
$ 10 mm. Head fuscous-olive, face pale yellow. Antenna blackish, ringed 
with olive. Palpus fuscous with blackish tip, on inner side pale yellow. 
Thorax, abdomen dark fuscous. Legs fuscous, tarsi banded with yellowish. 
Fore wing ovate, costa curved at base, hardly concave in middle, apex 
subobtuse, termen rounded, oblique, ven r long. Brown with purplish 
tinge, basal halves of scales pale grey, giving rise to very fine irroration. 
Markings dull olive-ochreous, sprinkled with brown. A large ill-defined 
transverse blotch extending over basal half of dorsum to before base, 
upper half narrowed, with top almost touching costa at ] / 4 , posterior edge 
of this blotch moderately convex, vertical; a moderately sinuate broad 
transverse median fascia, almost direct, narrowed towards costa; an ill- 
defined transverse fascia at 3 / 4 , triangularly dilated below and occupying 
