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more olive, less brown; both these spots preceded by bluish-olive-grej T 
suffusion mentioned above; disc beyond preceding marks and from below 
costa to top of pretornal mark suffused with pale fulvous ; posterior half 
of costa suffused with olive turning brownish towards apex, with a row of 
five elongate dark brown marks alternating with minute dark dots and 
becoming larger and paler towards apex, last mark in apex; a greyish- 
olive suffusion in and before apex, mixed with brownish below, forming a 
cloudy preterminal band to tornus, narrowed downward; this band light 
fulvous, posteriorly suffusedly edged with olive-grey; middle of termen 
with a row of four marginal semiovate small dots, narrowly edged with 
whitish posteriorly; a short dark brown marginal strigula in apex. Cilia 
whitish, tinged olive, along costa dark brown opposite dark costal markings. 
Hind wing light brownish, anterior third becoming whitish; cilia paler, 
greyish with a light, basal line. 
Ostium, a moderate funnel; limen forming sclerotized ventral wall of 
the latter, with lower edge thickened. Ductus bursae short, cestum strong, 
being a plicate tube, with lower edge deeply emarginate ventrally and 
dorsally. Bursa copulatrix moderate. Signa large, nail-shaped, surface 
finely corrugated (Slide No. 783 D, type). 
Letter Box Camp, 3600 m, November 12, 1938. One specimen. Approach- 
ing the Acroclita type of markings and therefore possibly an early form. 
Hermenias Meyrick, 1911 (fig. 342) 
Hermenias Meyrick, 1911, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, vol. 36, p. 225. Fletcher, 
Mem. Agr. Ind., Ent., vol. 11, p. 107, 1929. 
Head with dense, rough, little appressed scales. Ocellus posterior. 
Proboscis rather weak. Antenna with scape considerably elongate, flagel- 
lum in male slightly flattened, serrulate and minutely fasciculate-ciliate 
beneath, smoothly scaled above, basal part straight, somewhat thickened, 
compressed and dilated beyond base or at 1 / 4 , with a shallow notch on 
dilatation above, flagellum rather slender from beyond this notch to apex; 
in female flagellum normal, minutely pubescent below. Palpus moderate, 
moderately long or long, mostly gradually curved downward, subascending 
or ascending; median segment thickened with dense scales, mostly 
smoothly appressed, sometimes roughish along edges in male, more or less 
roughish at apex, slightly tapering towards extremities, apex subtruncate; 
terminal segment slender, of varying length: from rather short to under 
1 / 2 , continuing the curve of median segment downward, especially in 
female. Thorax without crest. Fore wing with costal fold in male which is 
mostly strong and concealing long, dense white hairs; seldom wing without 
costal fold; without raised scale-tufts; lb moderately furcate at base, 
2 from 2 / 3 — 3 / 5 of lower edge of cell, 3 from angle, 4 approximated at base, 
5 from close to 4, slightly sinuate posteriorly, 6—7 subparallel, 7 and 8 
stalked from angle, 7 apparently out of vein 8 at 1 / 3 , to termen, 9 parallel 
