MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF KEW GUINEA 
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Limen, a broad plate, pointed below, with a projection above, which 
is trapezoid, angles rounded. Cestum, two folded sclerotizations : above 
middle of ductus bursae and subterminal (Slide No. 786 D, holotype). 
Lake Habbema, 3250—3300 m, August 27, 1938. Two specimens. Allied 
to H. corticina spec. nov. 
Bathrotoma Meyrick, 1881 
Bathrotoma Meykick, 1881, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, vol. 6, p. 675; ibidem, 
vol. 36, pp. 226-227, 1911. Fletcher, Mem. Agr. Ind., Ent., vol. 11, p. 31, 1929. 
Bathrotoma angelica spec. nov. (fig. 344) 
11 mm. Head white, face black. Antenna with scape strongly elongate, 
black, mixed above with white, flagellum with basal fifth to notch, black, 
strigulated with white above, notch small ; remainder of flagellum white. 
Palpus black. Thorax (damaged) white, black anteriorly. Abdomen 
(damaged) whitish mixed with black; valva pale ochreous with upper 
edge broadly black. Legs white, ringed with black (posterior pair missing). 
Fore wing narrow, elongate, gradually dilated, pointed ; costal fold narrow, 
to before 3 / 5 , concealing a thick brush of pale ochreous hairs; costa almost 
straight, apex pointed, termen strongly sinuate, rather oblique. Glossy 
silver-white, faintly tinged greenish-bluish; markings deep bronze-brown 
with violet gloss. Costal fold bronze-brown ; an ovate patch occupying less 
than third fourth of costa, not reaching middle of disc; a short vertical 
sinuate line from middle of lower edge to above fold ; a triangular slightly 
inwardly oblique patch on dorsum before tornus to middle of disc, with 
top connected with a longitudinal moderate streak occupying about 
middle third of space between cell and termen; two-three interrupted 
vertical transverse lines traversing preceding streak and connecting it 
with a transverse dot beyond 4 / 5 of costa which is preceded by one and 
followed by two minute transverse costal marks; a transverse line before 
apex, triangularly dilated on costa; anterior 2 / 3 of wing (damaged) 
moderately irrorated with greyish-bronze, less so towards dorsum. Cilia 
dark fuscous-bronze; two white bars: opposite apex above and in tornus, 
respectively. Hind wing light grey, suffused with fuscous towards apex 
and termen. Cilia greyish-fuscous, becoming paler towards tips, a pale 
basal line. 
Genitalia much resembling the Hermenias -type, especially those of 
H. corticina spec. nov. Uncus, a slender horn. Socius large, weak, toil 
narrowed and slightly curved upward, haired above, sparsely bristled 
towards top beneath. Valva straight, lower edge emarginate beyond 
middle; cucullus dilated, rounded, with two large marginal teeth and with 
a series of small teeth along lower edge. Aedoeagus moderate, slender, 
almost straight, top obliquely truncate (Slide No. 806 D, type). 
Mist Camp, 1800 m, January 17, 1939. One specimen. 
This is a very distinct species. 
