MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
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wing rather narrow, dilated, broadest at 3 / 4 , costa hardly curved, bent 
and distinctly prominent at 3 / 4 , apex angulate, termen straight, moderately 
oblique. Pale whitish-ochreous, densely transversely strigulated along 
costal half, densely retinate and suffused along dorsal half and especially 
on terminal third of disc with bright ochreous and tinged brownish; 
markings blackish -brown. Anterior half of costa with a row of minute 
dots ; larger dots : one beyond base of costa, one before x / 4 and one before 
middle; two last mentioned dots triangular, continued in disc by narrow 
brownish suffused line reaching to middle of disc; posterior half of costa 
with five moderate semiovate dots, tolerably equidistant, alternating 
with small transverse strigulae, becoming slightly larger posteriorly; last 
dot largest, in apex; a large wedge-shaped or erect-ovate, inwardly oblique 
patch just above dorsum beyond base, reaching 3 / 4 across wing; this patch 
followed by a larger elongate patch in disc below middle, reaching from before 
J /j to beyond middle of wing; upper edge of this patch horizontal, with 
three small dentations: at extremities and before middle, respectively; 
lower edge horizontal, with one dentation on posterior extremity, anterior 
edge straight, inwardly oblique, posterior edge tolerably parallel to 
anterior, convex; an inwardly oblique transverse streak from 3 / 4 of dorsum 
to just below middle of whig at 3 / 4 , slightly curved below, clavate; a small 
dot on upper angle of cell connected by a vertical fine brownish streak 
with preceding; a vertical transverse series of small short streaks from 
below penultimate costal dot almost to tornus, uppermost streak longer, 
suffused with brownish, sometimes dissolved so as to form blackish -brown 
irroration ; a rather ill-defined zig-zag brown line along upper 3 / 4 of termen, 
often interrupted, connected with penultimate costal dot by greyish- 
fuscous suffusion. Cilia greyish-ochreous, basal third pale grey, with a few 
dark brown bars above middle of termen and in tornus. Hind wing light 
fuscous-bronze, somewhat darker towards apex; cilia concolorous, basal 
third slightly darker. 
Limen, a moderate plate, bluntly rounded above, base slightly dilated, 
encircled by a strong band, concave above. Cestum, a moderate furcate 
plate above and some weak folds at base of ductus bursae (Slide No. 
774 D, holotype). 
Lake Habbema, 3250—3300 m, end July— end August, 1938 (holotype, 
paratype). Two females. Allied to H. asbolandra (Meyrick) from Papua. 
Hermenias corticina spec. nov. (figs. 342, 354, 357) 
24 mm, $ 24—27 mm. Head in male light grey, face darker grey, in 
female pale ochreous. Antenna grey. Palpus long, in male dark fuscous- 
grey; median segment mixed with pale grey in middle and more so 
towards apex; terminal segment blackish -grey, tip whitish; in female 
palpus pale ochreous mixed with dark fuscous, basal segment dark fuscous, 
median segment with a very oblique submedian transverse dark fuscous 
