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posterior edge indent in the middle; a suffused blackish streak along the 
basal fourth of the costa; lower 2 / 3 of the wing from beyond the base as 
far as the second transverse fascia, strongly irrorated with fuscous-black, 
beyond this fascia irrorated irregularly and less densely; a vertical trans- 
verse streak of blackish irroration at 1 / 5 , enclosing an ill-defined creamy 
spot in the tornus, extended posteriorly so as to occupy the apical fifth 
of the wing, thus accentuating the subapical white transverse streak. 
Cilia sordid creamy, with the posterior hall around the apex suffused 
with grey, indistinct grey bars along the termen. Hind wing creamy, 
even!)' irrorated with pale ochreo us-fuScous, glossy. Cilia ochreous-white. 
Uncus porrect, strong, pointed, with two short hammer-like processes 
at the base. Valvae united, cuculli membraneous, distinctly separated 
along their anterior part from the longer, clavate and bristly sacculi; both 
valvae connected ventrally by a transverse plate. Anellus process slender, 
moderately clavate, and bristly along apical half. Aedoeagus narrowed, 
rather long. (Slide no. 1063 D, type.) 
Moss Forest Camp, five km northeast of Lake Habbema, 2800 m, 
November 3, 1938. One specimen. The male genitalia show a striking 
similarity to those in Bathybalia gen. nov. (family Scaeosophidae, see 
below). 
Limnaecia megalochlamys spec. nov. (fig. 623) 
fizyaq = large, jda/wg = gown 
$ 26 mm. Head pale ochreous, vertex (damaged) lilac-black. Antenna 
pale tawny, tips of segments somewhat paler, fourth and fifth basal 
segments suffused with lilac-blackish. Palpus pale ochreous, median 
segment suffused with lilac-blackish towards the base, terminal segment 
suffused with lilac -fuscous throughout, base blackish. Ihorax (damaged) 
pale brownish. Abdomen ochreous-whitish, a row ot large lateral blackish 
patches becoming narrow oblique stripes posteriorly. Legs light golden- 
tawny, anterior femur and tibia blackish above, basal segment ol the 
tarsus with a blackish longitudinal streak above, median tibia with a 
black subbasal and a subapical spot above, basal segment of tarsus with a 
broad blackish median band, posterior tibia with a median and an apical 
whorl of bristly scales. Fore wing lanceolate. Light purplish-tawny, paler 
along the dorsum and at the base ; a lilac-black attenuated streak along 
the basal fourth of the costa; a very narrow, strongly outwards-curved 
semi-ellipsoid transverse ochreous-white fine in the disc at 1 / 4 , not reaching 
margins of the wing, slightly dilated into a small angular projection in 
the middle posteriorly; a dark fuscous suffused streak along the fold from 
beyond the base to the middle of the wing, hardly reaching above the fold, 
below this extended so as to fill the area before the transverse fascia, 
narrow beyond this fascia; this streak is marked with ochreous-white as 
