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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
segment moderately long, slender, obtuse. Maxillary palpus absent. Fore 
wing with or without costal fold in male, with raised tufts of scales and 
fine ridges of scales along veins above, thinly scaled beneath, veins 
fringed with scales; cell much dilated beyond middle, narrowed again 
posteriorly; lb furcate, to about 1 / 1 , 2 from beyond 1 / 2 , 3 from angle, 
3 — 5 separate, equidistant, 5- — 7 tolerably parallel, 7 separate, from angle, 
to termen, 9 closer to 8 than to 10, 10 from beyond 2 / 3 > H from middle; 
parting vein sinuate, from upper edge of cell before 11, to above base of 5. 
Hind wing without cubital pecten, elongate-seiniovate, subacute, under 1, 
cilia J / 2 ; semipellucent, veins fringed with scales; cell very short: 1 / 3 , 
dilated and rounded posteriorly, a moderate, compressed longitudinal fold 
along upper edge of cell, concealing this edge, reaching to 3 / 4 of wing 
(dotted in figure) ; 2 from angle, 4 and 5 short-stalked, 2, 3 and stalk of 
4 and 5 remote and equidistant, 6 and 7 stalked, stalk apparently 
originating from base of wing. 
Genotype: Stenotenes incudis spec, nov., male. 
Possibly a development of Schoenotenes Meyrick, with remarkable 
venation of hind wing. 
Key to the species of Stenotenes 
1. A trapezoid blotch on dorsum before middle incudis spec. nov. 
A triangular patch on middle of costa acroptycha spec. nov. 
Stenotenes acroptycha spec. nov. (fig. 402) 
axQov = margin, titv/J] = a fold 
16 mm. Head and thorax white, the latter mixed with pale ochreous, 
shoulder with black transverse marks. Antenna with scape white, flagellum 
irrorated with black. (Palpi broken). Abdomen white, touched with 
ochreous. Legs white, tibia and tarsus banded with black, posterior leg 
entirely white, anterior external spur with a black band. Fore wing 
elongate-triangular, dilated ; costa with a moderately broad fold to beyond 
middle, gently curved and slightly prominent along fold, almost straight 
posteriorly; apex pointed, termen slightly sinuate, oblique. White, evenly 
retinate and transversely strigulated with pale golden-ochreous ; a raised 
scale-tuft on middle of fold; costa suffused with light chestnut-brown; 
base of costa suffused with black ; two transverse deep brown bands edged 
with black, in middle and before end of fold respectively, alternating with 
blackish transverse strigulae; costa beyond fold denser suffused with pale 
golden-ochreous, with four black dots alternating with minute points; 
costal patch moderate, elongate-semiovate, scarcely reaching dorsum, 
light chestnut-brown, edged with black ; a black bent fascia in middle of 
wing forming a large triangle, top reaching below fold, suffused with 
chestnut- brown, angles corresponding with median band on fold and with 
first black costal dot beyond this, respectively, centre suffused with black 
