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denser suffused with greyish-fuscous, tinged wine-red; subcircular spot 
of ground colour edged by Y-shaped mark paler whitish; plical tuft large, 
white. Cilia whitish, an antemedian row of wine-reddish dots, a transverse 
narrow dark strigula encircling apex. Hind wing greyish-fuscous, faintly 
tinged wine-reddish, cilia paler. 
Ostium small. Limen, a weak short narrow band, slightly curved 
downward. Dorsal wall of ostium with two small circular plates in middle 
above. Ductus bursae rather short, very narrow. Bursa copulatrix spheroid. 
Ovipositor lobes narrow, erect. (Slide No. 685 D). 
Moss Forest Camp, five km northeast of Lake Habbema, 2800 m, 
October 14, 1938. One specimen. Very distinct by markings of wine- 
reddish colour. 
Schoenotenes tineoides spec. nov. (fig. 422) 
g 15 mm. Head and thorax creamy-white, the latter with a large central 
round black spot. Palpus white, median segment suffused with greyish- 
fuscous except towards extremities, darkest along upper edge. Abdomen 
glossy-white. Legs white, anterior tibia and tarsus dark greyish-fuscous, 
white-ringed. Fore wing roughish, with raised scales along veins and with 
tufts; elongate-ovate, little dilated, pointed; costa moderately curved 
throughout, apex rather pointed; termen faintly rounded, oblique. Creamy- 
white, markings fuscous-black. A rounded-triangular spot on base of 
costa, and a round one beyond this below fold; an oblique series of three 
spots beyond preceding, upper spot small, round, costal, lower spot large, 
round, subplical, middle spot irregularly erect, between these; a rounded 
moderate spot on costa beyond 1 / i , two points below and slightly beyond 
this ; a large semiovate spot on middle of costa and a still larger subtriangular 
spot, with angles rounded, in cell below preceding, a small rounded dot 
below this on 1 / 3 of fold; an almost vertical transverse series of four dots 
from 3 / 5 of costa to 2 / 3 of dorsum, first and second dots ovate, second 
smaller, just above cell, third and fourth dots rounded, third below cell; 
two black points between second and third dots, and one similar point 
beyond second dot; costal patch rather small, subtriangular, top to vein 8, 
a round white costal dot in middle and a short narrow appendix below 
posteriorly, running obliquely to vein 6; three erect-ovate transverse 
spots: on closing vein, in tornus and on termen between veins 3 — 6, 
tornal spot more rounded; two small costal marks in apex, a few minute 
points before apex in disc; three-four small round dots on middle of 
dorsum. Cilia white, an antemedian row of black points, becoming larger 
towards apex and forming blotches opposite costal markings. Hind wing 
and cilia white, with pale yellowish gloss. 
Tegumen erect. Uncus with a moderate, little curved hook, top rounded, 
bristles at the sides above. Hamus strong, moderately long, little curved. 
Socius, a small brisled pad below hamus. Gnathos weak, broadly U-shaped, 
