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Abdomen whitish irrorated dark grey, two basal segments suffused with orange - 
fulvous, preapical segment ochreous-orange, anal segment oehreous-white; 
fore wing with costal edge white, some eight grey transverse marks .... 
baliochlora Meyrick 
Head, thorax, abdomen white, abdomen with a dark fuscous median dorsal 
S p 0 t, ochraspis Meyrick 
Head, thorax, and abdomen either not white, or white, more or less irrorated 
with grey 
Abdomen suffused with ochreous-yellowish, more or less irrorated with fuscous, 
segmental margins white D- 
Abdomen yellow; fore wing white, with suffused, pale ochreous-yellow, not 
dark-edged, fasciae hofmanni Pagenstecher 
Abdomen white, irrorated with fuscous . 12 
Fore wing, first lobe: three lines across the basal fifth, and four broad dark 
grey fasciae from beyond l / t to before apex. . . . niphadosema spec. nov. 
Fore wing, first lobe : base mixed with grey, an elongate dark fuscous spot on 
i/ 4 of costa, five whitish-ochreous, dark grey-edged fasciae from before middle 
to apex anticoma IMeyrick 
Head grey ; fore wing, first lobe : dark grey irroration at base, a small spot on 
costa near base, four whitish-ochreous fasciae edged dark grey, first before 
middle, and a subapical dark grey bar cymographa Meyrick 
Head white; fore wing, first lobe: three dark grey blotches on basal third of 
costa, apical eighth blackish, with a narrow white subapical line 
argyrospodia spec. nov. 
Orneodes semophantis Meyrick, 1929 (fig. 714) 
Orneodes semophantis Meyrick, 1929, Exot. Microl., vol. 3, pp. 537 538 (<J). 
Distribution: British New Guinea, Biagi, Mambare River, 5000 feet. 
cJ 23 mm. Head white, vertex suffused with pale greyish, slightly mixed 
with dark grey. Palpus long, ascending, median segment gradually dilated 
towards the apex with appressed scales, terminal segment about 1 l i , acute; 
pale ochreous-whitish, median segment slightly mixed with fuscous along 
its basal half, and along its upper edge as far as 2 / s , terminal segment with 
a broad subapical band of a greyish-fuscous suffusion. Thorax white, 
posterior half, patagium, base, and apical third of the tegula, sordid light 
ochreous-greyish, slightly mixed with greyish-fuscous, two longitudinal 
sublateral blackish-fuscous spots before the apex of the thorax. Abdomen 
whitish, speckled with light tawny and less with fuscous, tergites 4 and 7 
almost white, posterior, dark fuscous bands on segments 2 — 3, 5 — 6, and 
8, segments 2 — -3 also with anterior bands, and broad longitudinal lateral 
bands; venter creamy -white. Legs creamy-white, anterior tarsus suffused, 
except towards the base, with dark fuscous. Pore wing with a broad costal 
fold almost to its middle, strongly narrowed posteriorly, covering the base 
of the first, and the second segments; these segments throughout, and 
posterior 3 / s of the fourth and fifth segments, light tawny-brownish, base 
of the third and the fourth as far as the cleft, and the fifth, and sixth 
