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and across middle. Abdomen dark fuscous-grey, genital segment light grey. 
Legs dark grey, tarsi pale-ringed. Fore wing elongate, dilated, broadest 
at 3 / 4 , with a narrow fold to 1 / 3 ; costa little curved, slightly bent and 
prominent at 3 / 4 , apex rounded, projecting, termen concave, little oblique 
above, oblique, rounded beneath. Light grey, transversely strigulated 
and marked with dark fuscous. Costa and costal fold finely transversely 
strigulated ; a row of moderate dark grey dots along median part of costa, 
first dot subquadrate, before 1 l a ; last dot larger, triangular, beyond 2 / 3 , 
followed by a series of moderate transverse strigulae ; an elongate moderate 
blackish -fuscous spot on costa just before apex; anterior half of disc with 
a row of coarse transverse marks from just above fold; a longitudinal row 
of three small wedge-shaped transverse marks below fold at 1 / 4 ; a moderate 
longitudinal streak along upper half of cell in middle of wing, connected 
anteriorly with costa before middle by an oblique strigula; an erect- 
semiovate, somewhat inwardly oblique dark fuscous spot above dorsum 
before tornus, with rounded top to middle of disc well beyond cell, base 
of spot truncate by fold; an erect-triangular spot beyond preceding spot, 
in middle of disc, with anterior edge concave, upper edge horizontal, 
posterior edge parallel to termen; lower extremity of this spot connected 
by an ill-defined transverse streak of fuscous suffusion with tornus; fine 
dark fuscous transverse undulate strigulae connecting the two above 
mentioned spots with each other and with costa; subapical costal dot 
with a blackish line from middle of lower edge oblique to termen below 
apex, thence marginal to its middle, lower half of termen with some three 
short black vertical strigulae; dorsum and tornus with a row of transverse 
dark fuscous marks. Cilia fuscous-greyish, tips of scales white, basal third 
whitish-grey, finely barred with black, cilia around apex black. Hind wing 
rather dark greyish-fuscous, with bronze gloss, dark fuscous towards apex ; 
cilia grey tinged fuscous, a dark fuscous antemedian line. 
Uncus, a broad furca. Socius large, a thick, sparsely bristled pad. 
Transtilla narrow. Valva narrow, constricted beyond middle, cucullus 
rounded, sacculus with a large distal conical projection. Aedoeagus 
sclerotized (Slide No. 815 D, holotype). 
Lake Habbema, 2600—2800 m, August 18, 1938 (holotype), August 26, 
1938. Two specimens. 
Hermenias scoliomelas spec. nov. (figs. 337, 338, 342) 
ay.oAioc = oblique, fieAag = black 
£ 18—19 mm, $ 21 mm. Head white, in male face above and side tufts 
laterally mixed with black. Antenna black, scape in male mixed with 
white. Palpus black, upper narrow edge and inner side except base white, 
terminal segment with a white tip. Thorax black, a broad, angulate 
transverse median white band with top directed rostrad, in male slightly 
mixed with black. Abdomen in male blackish, becoming dark grey towards 
apex above, anal segment with whitish posterior edge, in female fuscous- 
