MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
129 
white dot on termcn below apex; dorsum sparsely dotted with black. 
Cilia (imperfect) dark grey, white around apex and in tornus. Hind wing 
light grey, becoming darker grey, slightly tinged fuscous towards apex; 
cilia pale grey with a dark grey basal half. 
Moss Forest Camp, five km northeast of Lake Habbema, 2800 m, 
October 13, 1938. One specimen. Closely allied to H. merodelta spec. nov. 
Hermenias psimythographa spec. nov. (fig. 351) 
ylfj,v&og = white-lead, yQarpoi = to draw 
$ 19 mm Head white, touched with pale ochreous. Antenna dark grey 
black towards base, scape white, black below. Palpus somewhat roughish ; 
black, white on inner side; median segment with upper edge white, a 
moderate interrupted white basal band; terminal segment white, irrorated 
with black laterally. Thorax white, black anteriorly, a black median 
transverse band; tegula with basal half black. Abdomen ochreous-grey, 
darker grey posteriorly, anal tuft pale ochreous, venter whitish. Legs 
black, posterior grey, whitish below, all legs white-ringed. Fore wing 
elongate, narrow, dilated, costa little curved at base, straight in middle, 
gradually gently curved before apex, apex rather obtuse, termen slightly 
rounded, faintly prominent between veins 5—6 and 2—3. Black, markings 
white. A small longitudinal streak from middle of base; costa with a small 
subquadrate mark beyond base and eight pairs of thick, truncate, short 
transverse marks, some dilated below and more or less confluent, and 
then irrorated with black, surrounded by white irroration below ; a streak 
along dorsum from base to 3 / 5 , narrow along basal filth, dilated and 
forming a wedge-shaped, inwardly oblique transverse streak at ] / 4 reaching 
2 /, s acr oss wing; top of dorsal streak with a short longitudinal streak; 
dorsal streak strongly narrowed or interrupted beyond origin of transverse 
streak, broader interrupted on middle of dorsum, forming a semiovate 
spot before middle and a short mark beyond middle; this mark produced 
posteriorly so as to form an inwardly oblique transverse fascia, touching 
penultimate pair of costal marks, broadly interrupted above middle of 
disc, slightly narrowed towards costa; an irregular vertical wedge-shaped 
spot in tornus, with top to middle of wing, preceded and followed by 
irroration of white scales; base of spot continued along lower third of 
termen by a white streak, strongly dentate anteriorly ; a vertical moderate 
streak of dark leaden-metallic scales along middle of wedge-shaped tornal 
spot and a somewhat narrowed fascia of leaden-metallic scales with 
bluish reflections before upper 2 / s of termen running to below apex, paral- 
lel to termen ; in right wing three small triangular black marginal spots on 
white dorsal markings and two small dots in tornus. Cilia white with a 
large cloudy blackish suffusion opposite termen above middle and a 
smaller suffusion on dorsum; costal cilia black, streaked with white 
opposite white costal marks. Hind wing light grey becoming daik grey, 
