MICROLEPIDOPTERA OP NEW GUINEA 
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cucullus with a digitus, sacculus thickened, simple. Aedoeagus robust, 
straight. Cornuti, three strong spikes (Slide No. 627 D). 
Moss Forest Camp, five km northeast of Lake Habbema, 2800 m, 
October 17, 1938. One specimen. Allied to S. droserantha Meyrick, from 
Assam. 
Eremas Turner, 1945 
Eremas Turner, 1945, Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Austria]., vol. 69, p. 71. 
Eremas polystalagma spec. nov. (fig. 300) 
Tiohi — much, or Mayya = a drop 
$ 16 mm. Head greyish-whitish. Palpus whitish densely mixed and 
suffused with dark fuscous. Antenna light grey, rather sparsely long- 
ciliate, ciliations thin, over 2. Thorax white. Abdomen light grey. Fore 
wing without costal fold, elongate-triangular, costa curved at extremities, 
tolerably straight in middle, apex rather long, subacute, termen slightly 
sinuate, considerably oblique. Greyish-white with a silvery gloss, towards 
base suffused with fuseous-grey, towards apex slightly suffused with 
leaden-grey ; base of costa suffused with fuscous-grey, costal edge fuscous- 
grey throughout, costal cilia (along posterior half of costa) greyish blotched 
with dark fuscous; middle of disc from beyond 1 j i to end of cell with a 
longitudinal slightly curved row of small black dots, becoming larger 
posteriorly, the largest, and more conspicuous dot on lower angle of cell; 
a second less distinct row of smaller dots below cell from base of wing to 
2 / 3 of cell, horizontal; a third row of small transverse black elongate marks 
just below fold from before base to beyond middle of wing length, ending 
in a round dot and a small blackish suffusion before end of fold ; terminal 
third of wing from beyond cell rather regularly irrorated noth slightly 
inwardly oblique transverse rows of black interneural points; anterior 2 / 3 
of wing with sparse minute scattered black points. Cilia dirty creamy- 
white, infuscated along costa and opposite apex ; an interrupted dark grey 
antemedian fascia. Hind wing light silvery -greyish, glossy, cilia somewhat 
lighter. 
Tegumen strong, erect. Uncus with broad base, hook bifid. Socius small, 
rounded. Gnathos strong, arms with a blunt median projection ventrally, 
top curved, scobinate. Transtilla strong, invert-W-shaped, with robust 
short labides. Valva rather broad, costa projecting terminally, sacculus 
with a terminal bristled pad. Aedoeagus moderate, curved, orifice with 
lower edge projecting in a long point. Cornuti not perceptible (Slide No. 
497 D). 
Top Camp, 2100 m, January 22, 1939. One specimen. 
Polyortha Dognin, 1905 
Polyortlia Dognin, 1905, Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg., vol. 49, pp. 85-86. Fletcher, 
Mem. Agr. Ind., Ent., vol. 11, p. 182, 1929. 
