MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
137 
specimens. Judging by the female genitalia closely allied to H. gracilis 
spec. nov. 
Hermenias pollostes spec. nov. 
no'/.XoGTor = small 
$ 13 mm. Head and thorax whitish, tegula mixed with fuscous-blackish. 
Antenna fuscous, darker towards base, scape whitish. Palpus whitish, 
median segment suffused with dark fuscous along lower half and towards 
apex, except apical edge (Abdomen missing). Legs whitish, anterior tibia 
and tarsus blackish, white-ringed. Fore wing elongate-subovate, moderately 
dilated, costa gently curved throughout, apex pointed, termen moderately 
sinuate, oblique. White, irrorated and transversely strigulated w'ith light 
tawny-ochreous, markings fuscous-black. Base of costa with a narrow very 
oblique streak, extended along base of fold, connected with dorsal edge by 
two ill-defined greyish vertical striae; costa beyond this streak with a 
row of small dots, becoming somewhat larger and subtriangular posteriorly ; 
these dots becoming largest and rounded in apex; a moderate oblique 
mark beyond l / 4 of costa, truncate below, hardly reaching upper edge of 
cell; a transverse fascia from middle of costa to 2 / 5 of dorsum, strongly 
narrowed in cell, upper third outwardly curved, vertical, with a pro- 
jection posteriorly running along upper edge of cell; lower third of fascia 
tolerably straight, inwardly oblique, with anterior edge serrate above, 
indent just above fold; a strongly inwardly oblique, wedge-shaped, narrow 
slightly curved mark from 2 / 3 of dorsum to beyond base of vein 3; an 
elongate-rectangular spot before termen below' apex, connected by a 
horizontal narrow? streak of blackish irroration with 1 / 3 of central fascia; 
termen darker: finely irrorated and transversely strigulated with bronze- 
fuscous, this irroration connected with the apical dot. Cilia whitish, apical 
third pale fuscous opposite middle of termen, a narrow interrupted blackish 
antemedian line around apex and along upper half of termen ; some small 
fuscous dots in tornus. Hind wing and cilia pale ochreous-whitish, glossy. 
Sigi Camp, 1500 m, February 26, 1039. One specimen. 
Hermenias gracilis spec. nov. (fig. 352) 
£ 15—17.5 mm. Head white, sometimes touched with pale ochreous, 
rather rough. Antenna grey, darker towards base, scape white. Palpus 
roughish below, dark fuscous, upper edge of median segment and entire 
terminal segment white or pale ochreous-white. Thorax white or pale 
ochreous-white, more or less irrorated with dark fuscous, basal half of 
tegula dark fuscous. Abdomen pale fuscous-whitish or ochreous-whitish. 
Legs white, anterior tibia and tarsus black, white-ringed, median tibia and 
tarsus white, black banded. Fore wing narrow, elongate, dilated, costa 
slightly curved at base, straight beyond base, faintly impressed and 
appearing slightly concave at l / 3 ; posterior half of costa slightly curved; 
apex pointed, termen straight, oblique. White, costal half and posterior 
