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the preceding group. The male genitalia are of the Tortricoid type, without 
hami, with pending socii, with a strong gnathos, and a simple valva of 
Cacoeciine appearance. This group forms the natural connection with the 
family Tortricidae. The two above mentioned groups are connected with 
each other by a long series of species intermediate as to the shape and the 
scaling of the fore and the hind wings, and as to the shape of the genitalia ; 
these intermediate forms have a robust, sometimes curiously shaped 
gnathos, and a valva with a bristled knob at the top of the sacculus. In 
many species the sacculus bears a patch of curious, flattened, and bifid 
bristles. 
Distribution of the genus Schoenotenes outside the Papuan region is as 
follows : Australia : seven species, Sumatra : one, Java : two, India, Malaya 
and Sumatra: one, India and Java: one species, altogether twelve species. 
Furthermore one undescribed species has recently been collected by the 
author in South Celebes, another was received from the Moluccas. 
The following species are apocryphic: 
Schoenotenes circensis Meyrick 1928, Exot. Microl., vol. 3, p. 459, 
from the Bismarck Islands and New Guinea, belongs to the genus 
Ochetarcha Meyrick (Tortricinae, Peroneini), see Diakonoff, Treubia, 
vol. 19, p. 513, 1948. 
Schoenotenes cremnotoma Meyrick 1936, Exot. Microl., vol. 5, p. 62, 
from Java, belongs to Phaenacropista Diakonoff (Tortricinae, Cacoeciini), 
see Diakonoff, Treubia, vol. 18, pp. 389 — 390, 1941. 
Schoenotenes centrostricta Diakonoff, 1941, Treubia, vol. 18, pp. 43 — 44, 
pi. 2, fig. 6, pi. 4, fig. 9, has been transferred to Proactenis. 
The following species must be referred to Schoenotenes: 
Argyroploce ornithotypa Meyrick 1938, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., vol. 87, 
pp. 511 — 512 (Papua); this species is included in the following key. 
Key to the Papuan species of Schoenotenes 
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Unusually small species: 9 mm, with narrow, pointed fore wings, whitish, 
markings formed by sparse pale fuscous dotting .... nanodes spec. nov. 
Not thus 2 
Markings only black, sometimes edged with oehreous or orange .... 3 
Markings not only thus coloured . g 
Ground colour pale yellowish prophanes spec. nov. 
Ground colour whitish, creamy or pale fuscous 4 
Black markings rather evenly spread all over the wing 5 
Black markings limited to costal half of wing or to a small discal mark, a row 
of costal dots, and scattered minute points 7 
Rounded and elongate dots all over the wing tineoides spec. nov. 
Not thus 6 
Preterminal mark slender, X or Y-shaped, only in one place or hardly at all 
connected with discal or dorsal markings dimorpha spec. nov. 
Preterminal mark thick, N-shaped, distinctly and broadly connected with 
dorsal markings lichenochroma spec. nov. 
