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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
half with some longitudinal streaks opposite middle of termen, in left wing 
confluent and forming a blackish patch. Hind wing pale glossy grey, darker 
fuscous towards apex, paler towards dorsum. Cilia pale grey, basal third 
fuscous. 
Limen a rounded-trapezoid plate, with upper edge slightly concave, 
sides with small angulations. Cestum, a series of irregular folds from below 
ostium to bursa copulatrix (Slide No. 773 D, type). 
Lake Habbema, 3250—3300 m, August 20, 1938. One specimen. Allied 
to preceding species. 
Hermenias conglomerata spec. nov. (figs. 336, 348) 
3 14 mm, $ 17 — 18 mm. Head in male whitish suffused with dark grey; 
in female head ochreous-whitish. Antenna dark grey. Palpus in male 
greyish, median segment suffused with dark grey towards apex, terminal 
segment dark grey; palpus in female blackish, median segment with a pale 
median transverse band, terminal segment white. Thorax white, slightly 
mixed with black, anterior fourth and apex black. Abdomen in male black, 
in female whitish. Legs whitish, anterior and median tibia and tarsus 
black, white-ringed. Fore wing narrow, elongate, gradually moderately 
dilated, more so in male; costa little curved anteriorly, posterior third 
more curved; male with a moderate thickened fold to l / 3 , concealing very 
short white scales; costa in female gently curved throughout; apex 
pointed, termen straight, oblique, more so in female. White, partially 
faintly irrorated or suffused with pale tawny, more so in male, markings 
black and dark fuscous. Male. Base of wing suffused with black except on 
dorsum, this suffusion paler towards base, edge outwardly oblique; a large 
subtrapezoid black patch on upper half of wing before middle, with 
anterior edge inwardly oblique, continued by a transverse moderate fascia 
to above 1 / 3 of dorsum, gradually narrowed below: posterior edge of this 
patch concave, lower angle produced into a longitudinal blotch in cell, 
which is considerably irrorated with pale tawny; costa posteriorly with 
three elongate black marks becoming smaller towards apex; first mark 
connected with preceding costal patch by tawny-fuscous suffusion along 
and below costa; two rather large dentiform black patches: on dorsum 
before tornus and on termen somewhat above middle, respectively; tops 
of these patches curved and coalescent in middle of disc well beyond cell, 
their bases extended along edge of wing so as to form a marginal black 
streak along posterior part of dorsum, in tornus and along termen to 
apex, dilated in apex so as to form an apical black spot; dorsum irregularly 
transversely strigulated with black. Cilia blackish, base white, a black 
interrupted antemedian fascia. Female. A transverse black blotch on 
costa beyond base, triangularly projecting below fold and almost touching 
dorsum beyond base; posterior angle of this blotch narrowly extended 
along fold and merging into an erect-ovate, strongly inwardly oblique 
