98 U.S. NATIONAL MUSEUM BULLETIN 257 



Schoenotenes IVIeyrick, 1908 

 Schoenotenes collarigera, new species 



Figures 47, 571 



Female, 16 mm. Head greyish-creamy white. Antenna wdth scape 

 whitish, flagellum pale grey. Palpus rather long and slender; whitish, 

 partly suffused Avdth pale grey; terminal segment moderately long. 

 Thorax greyish-creamy white, suffused with grey anteriorly. Abdomen 

 white. 



Forewdng elongate, broadest before middle, costa gently curved 

 anteriorly, straight posteriorly, rather curved before apex, apex 

 moderately rounded, termen httle rounded, obhque, veins raised 

 and roughish. Creamy white, with fine interrupted transverse pale 

 grey strigulae; markings pale grey, edged and marbled with darker 

 grey. Basal patch indicated by a triangular spot on costa from just 

 beyond base, extending over more than 1/5, below hmited by fold, 

 outer edge inwards-obhque, rather straight; lower and outer edges 

 of this patch blackish, costal edge with four transverse dark strigulae; 

 transverse fascia narrow and sinuate, from before middle of costa 

 to dorsum before tornus; upper half of this fascia wedge-shaped, 

 pale grey, narrowly dark edged; lower half in right wing formed only 

 by pale grey edges, irregular in left mng; a white raised tuft on 

 closing vein, edged except anteriorly Avith black; some irregular 

 dark grey, fuscous and black dotting above, in, and below fold at 2/3 

 of wing and an elongate black strigula below fold at 1/3; costal patch 

 rather small, semioval, almost semicircular, anterior and posterior 

 edges truncate, rather darkly suffused with fuscous, pale-centered; 

 preterminal blotch moderate, rather rounded, pale grey; a series of 

 blackish marginal dots on ends of all veins, from vein 9 to tornus. 

 CiUa white, barred with grey. 



Hindwing white, extreme edge around apex and along upper half 

 of termen suffused with dark grey. CiUa white, around apex pale 

 grey. 



Female genitalia: Ninth segment hemispheroid with a flattened 

 edge, rather sclerotized and shghtly colored. Lobus anahs with a 

 rounded upper and a more slender lower half. Sterigma triangular, 

 ostium, a curved sht in its lower part; lamella antevaginaUs thus 

 being narrow and rodHke; lamella postvaginahs shaped as a strong 

 band. Ductus bursae short, simple. Corpus bursae ovoid. Signum, 

 a curved, hollow tooth. 



Material exammed: Oriental Negros, Mt. Tahnas, 1020 m, 28.VI.- 

 1958 (Hght trap, H. E. MilHron), 1 9, holotype, genit. sUde 5318 

 (BMH). 



