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MICROLEPIDOPTEKA OF NEW GUINEA 
scape moderate or somewhat elongate. Labial palpus moderate or moder- 
ately long, porrect or subascending, seldom moderately curved downward, 
median segment with up pressed scales, roughish towards apex above, 
roughly projecting beneath, seldom median segment slender, with closely 
appressed scales; terminal segment moderate, subobtuse. Maxillary palpus 
absent (concealed?), seldom minute but distinct. Thorax mostly without, 
sometimes with a posterior crest. Fore wing without costal fold; either 
rather broad and subovate or moderately broad and subtriangular, or 
rather narrow and pointed, mostly with veins raised and covered with 
roughish scales, with three raised scale-tufts: an elongate along basal third 
of upper edge of cell and two ovate tufts ; in middle of fold and on closing 
vein, last two often strongly raised; lb furcate at base, 2 from 1 / 2 — ®/ 5 
of lower edge of cell, 3 from angle, approximated to 4 at base, 7 separate, 
from upper angle of cell, to termen, 8 approximated to 7 at base, some- 
times considerably remote and from before angle, to costa, seldom 
apparently to apex, 11 from beyond middle of cell, a strong, oblique, 
slightly sinuate parting vein from before base of 1 1 to above base of 5. x ) 
Hind wing 1, mostly semiovate, sometimes subtrapezoid, often semi- 
pellucent, without cubital pecten, cilia 1 / 6 — 1 / 4 ; 2 from 3 / s — 2 / 3 of lower 
edge of cell, 3 and 4 connate from angle, 5 more or less approximated, 
6 and 7 mostly short-stalked, seldom connate or closely approximated, 
stalk widely remote from 5, cell narrow, closing vein as a rule considerably 
oblique. 
Genotype Schoenotenes synchorda Meyrick, 1908 (India, Java). 
A genus of considerable extent, forming a typical feature of t he Papuan 
Fauna; it seems very probable that New Guinea also is the country of 
its origin, in comparison with the number of species from that island 
(and from the Bismarck Islands) which are already known or described 
below, Schoenotenes is but poorly represented in Australia, in the Malayan 
Region and in India. 
The genus is easy of recognition, and its representatives can be arranged 
in a natural series, beginning with the species of Copromorphid facies: 
with ovate roughish fore wings, of which the veins are strongly raised, 
and with semipellucent hind wings. The male genitalia of this older group 
possess a narrow uncus, strong hami, and small or no socii and a relatively 
simple valva, while the female genitalia show an intricate development of 
the strongly sclerotized genital segment. The antipodes of this group are 
the species with Tortricid facies: subtriangular fore wings which are 
rather smoothly scaled, except for the invariably present plical and discal 
scale-tufts, and with a normally scaled, subtrapezoid hind wing, of which 
the cell is rather broad and the closing vein not so strongly oblique as in 
l ) As an exception veins 7 and S in the fore w'ing are stalked in a single species, 
with the stalk of these veins of inequal length in the left and in the right wing of 
the unique specimen. Therefore we are inclined to explain this situation as anomalous. 
