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a point between these, interconnected by brownish suffusion ; two minute 
dark points beyond preceding marks and four dots along posterior fourth 
of costa, becoming smaller towards apex ; an elongate-semiovate patch of 
ochreous-yellow suffusion from before middle to before apex, paler 
posteriorly, continued to apex by light brownish-ochreous suffusion, 
anterior edge gradually convex, posterior tolerably straight, running along 
vein 9; an inwardly oblique curved series of sparse small brownish-black 
dots; about three small dots above l / 3 of dorsum below and above fold, 
a horizontal pair of smaller dots below middle of upper edge of cell and 
an ill-defined group of dark scales between bases of veins 9 and 10; faint 
dark brown dotting along basal third of dorsum; a conspicuous blackish 
rounded-semiovate spot slightly beyond middle of dorsum reaching to 
fold, sometimes entirely absent ; a small black dot on end of fold, and a 
few plical dark scales above this dot; a moderate premarginal streak of 
light brownish-oclireous suffusion, narrowed below, from end of vein lb 
to vein 9, tolerably parallel to edge of wing, mixed with dark brown scales 
anteriorly, which form a narrow irregular streak along preterminal part; 
a row of pale brownish points on terminations of veins, that on vein 7 
larger, brownish-black; middle of disc to dorsum before tornus evenly 
suffused with light brownish-ochreous. Cilia whitish-ochreous, opposite 
apex suffused with light brownish-ochreous, an antemedian light browhish- 
ochreous streak. Hind wing pale ochreous touched with greyish, cloudy 
dark grey spots on terminations of veins 8 — 3, cilia white. 
Genital segment sclerotized, very complicated; limen, a triangular 
median body with point directed downward, upper edge indent in middle, 
angle rounded; laterally, a vertical plate at each side, with outer edge 
thickened, crowned by a small acutely triangular lobe; a flattened broad 
collar around ovipositor, ovipositor lobes rather broad, reniform. Ductus 
bursae very long, coiled. Bursa copula trix small, spheroid. Signum, a short 
rounded hollow projection, with a circular base. (Slide No. 692 D, holotype). 
Moss Forest Camp, 2600 — 2800 m, October 18, 1938 (holotype), 
October 15, 1938. Lake Habbema, 3250 — 3300 m, August 19, end July — 
end August, 1938. Four specimens. 
Schoenotenes Meyrick, 1908 (figs. 374, 375) 
Schoenotenes Meyrick, 1908, Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc., vol. 18, p. 619. 
Lepid. Catal., fasc. 10, p. 51, 1912. Gener. Ins., fasc. 149, p. 49, 1913. Fletcher, 
Mem. Agr. Ind., Ent., vol. 11, p. 199, 1929. Diakonoff, Zool. Meded. Mus. Leiden, 
vol. 21, pp. 214-217, figs. 11 K (head), .T (neur.), 16 D(g en. <$), 1939. Ibid., vo.l 31, 
pp. 167 — 169, figs. 3 — 5, 1952. Treubia, vol. 18, p. 426, fig. 6 (head, neur.), 1941. 
Epitrichosma Lower, 1908, Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Austral., vol. 32, p. 320 (genotype 
E. neurobapta Lower). Fletcher, Mem. Agr. Ind., Ent., vol. 11, p. 83, 1929 (synon.). 
Argyrotoxa Meyrick (part, nee sensu Hubner), Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, 
vol. 35, pp. 281-282, 1910. 
Head with more or less appressed scales. Ocellus posterior. Proboscis 
moderate. Antenna moderately ciliate in male, minutely ciliate in female, 
