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and approximated to 8, 10 remote, but nearer to 9, 11 from middle of cell. 
Hind wing with cubital pecten, 2 from slightly beyond middle of lower 
edge of cell, 3 and 4 stalked from angle, sometimes stalk very long, 5 
closely approximated, 6 and 7 closely approximated towards base or 
stalked. 
Tegumen broad, short, subconical. Uncus small, represented either by 
a slender bifid projection or by two curved horns. Socius, a large, thickened, 
rounded pad, densely covered with rising bristles. Transtilla absent. Valva 
Fig. 342: Hermenias corticina spec, nov., left: head male (above) female (below); 
middle: H. scoloimelas spec, nov., head male; right: head female; below: wing 
neuration male. 
narrow, strongly constricted in middle, cucullus curved downward, 
semiovate, truncate or asymmetrical, bristled, dentate along edge. Anellus 
very strong, erect. Aedoeagus mostly moderate, curved, hinged to apex 
of anellus. 
Limen : a broad median plate of varying shape, forming a good charac- 
teristic for discrimination of species. Ductus bursae moderate. Signum 
represented by more or less developed pieces of chitine, plicate longitu- 
dinally. Bursa copulatrix large, spheroid, clothed with fine needles. Signa 
absent. 
Typus generis Hermenias epidola Meyrick, 1911 (Southeast Australia). 
A rather varying genus comprising, as one extreme, species of moderate 
size, rougher and shorter palpi and typical Eucosmine facies, and as the 
other extreme, large narrow-winged species with long, rather smooth palpi 
and peculiar appearance, reminding of the Carposinidae. Both these 
groups, however, are connected by intermediate forms and come not in 
consideration for generic separation. We include in this genus also one 
