538 
EXOTIC MICROLEPIDOPTERA, 
cleft, and a larger one on middle of segment 5, extended into cilia ; 
segments 1-3 tinged greyish-ochreous towards apex ; cilia whitish. 
-British New Guinea, Biagi, Mambare B., 5000 feet; 1 ex. 
(Coll. Paravicini). 
Orneodes imbrifera, n. sp. 
2 . 15 mm. Head white mixed grey. (Palpi missing.) Thorax 
white, two grey anterior spots and some slight irroration, dark 
grey antemedian and posterior bars. Abdomen white sprinkled dark 
grey, white marginal rings with fine dark fuscous marginal edge. 
Forewings whitish, tips of scales grey, forming a fine transverse 
striolation ; four small dark grey white-edged spots on anterior half 
of costa : dark grey white-edged postmedian and subterminal fasciae, 
with grey cilia, first moderately broad, narrower on segment 1, 
appearing angulated inwards on segment 2 and sharply outwards 
between segments 3 and 4, second narrow, irregular, nearest termen 
on segment 2 ; blackish-grey apical dots on segments : cilia ochre- 
ous-whitish, grey on fasciae, white on marginal dots. Hindwings 
whitish, segments finely striolated grey and dark grey, with several 
indistinct series of whitish dots; cilia whitish, irregular median 
and posterior fasciae indicated by grey bars. 
French Conoo, Fort Crampel; 1 ex. 
Orneodes mens, n. sp. 
c?. 14 mm. Head grey-whitish, face whiter. Palpi long, 
recurved, whitish, second joint thickened with scales, with dark 
grey oblique subapical band, terminal joint as long as second, with 
grey median band. Thorax whitish, a biackish-grey blotch on 
shoulder. Abdomen whitish-ochreous sprinkled grey, segmental 
margins white. Forewings light yellow- ochreous ; basal area much 
mixed blackish-grey ; six spots on segment 1 formed by blackish 
costal suffusion edged laterally white, third extended across seg¬ 
ment and extended on its lower margin ; segments 2-6 basally 
irrorated blackish-grey, then with median and posterior fasciae 
edged first with blackish-grey irroration and then with white, 
median fascia nearly straight, narrowest on segment 4, posterior 
fascia rather narrow and near termen on segments 2 and 5, much 
wider and retracted on segments 3 and 4, rather narrow and 
retracted on segment 6, all segments with apical white dots edged 
dark grey anteriorly : cilia whitish barred grey, on fasciae dark 
grey. Hindwings whitish-yellowish ; basal area irregularly marked 
blackish; a rather narrow irregular median fascia of grey irroration, 
edged on each side with white blackish-edged bars ; a rather narrow 
posterior pale grey-yellowish fascia edged with white bars margined 
blackish-grey, retracted on segments 1, 3, and 6 ; apical dots and 
cilia as in forewings. 
Tibet, Tay-Tou-Ho ; 1 ex. (Coll. Paravicini). Forewings almost 
exactly as in the Indian spilodesma , but hindwings and palpi 
different. 
