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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
pending, arms narrow. Transtilla membraneous. Valva moderate, narrowed; 
cucullus with a slender curved top, bristled and haired; sacculus 1, with 
two blunt projections in middle below, a row of bifid bristles posteriorly. 
Aedoeagus semicircular, top bifid. Anellus long. (Slide No. 688 D). 
Sigi Camp, 1500 m, February 26, 1939. One specimen. Markings 
resembling those of a Tineid. 
Schoenotenes leptomorpha spec. nov. (fig. 414) 
?.e.ciTo; = slender, noQ'pr) = shape 
$ 14 — 16 mm. Head and antenna light golden-ochreous, flagellum finely 
ringed with brownish. Palpus light golden-ochreous, median segment 
towards apex mixed with dark brown scales. Thorax brown, tegula 
ochreous, tip white. Abdomen light brownish-ochreous tinged greyish. 
Legs light ochreous, tarsi faintly ringed with brownish. Fore wing elongate- 
lanceolate, rather narrow, apex subobtuse, termen hardly concave, con- 
siderably oblique. Pale whitish-ochreous ; a sub median broad transverse 
band of more or less interrupted ridges of raised blackish -brown scales; 
this band running outwardly oblique above, vertical beneath, in middle 
of wing projecting posteriorly by a moderate blackish-brown patch; 
transverse band broadly suffused with bright golden-ochreous, especially 
posteriorly, anteriorly blackish-brown colouring forming an acute horizontal 
projection below middle of wing, almost reaching base; a narrow transverse 
blackish- brown streak beyond base of costa almost to dorsum, followed 
on costa by four ill-defined transverse brownish lines; posterior half of 
costa with six blackish-brown dots, slightly transversely strigulated with 
ochreous below those; costal patch elongate-triangular, brightly golden- 
ochreous, on costa with three of the above mentioned dots, top edged by 
a narrow, blackish-brown line ; an oblique transverse blackish-brown blotch 
beyond cell from vein 9 to tornus, abruptly narrowed below, suffused with 
ochreous anteriorly and above; a round blackish-brown patch before 
middle of termen, connected by a narrow line with termination of vein 3, 
by an ill-defined transverse ochreous strigulation with costal patch; dark 
brown points on ends of terminal veins. Cilia pale ochreous with broad 
interrupted antemedian deep ochreous shade. Hind wing and cilia pale 
golden-ochreous. 
Ostium moderate. Limen broad, with two blunt rising projections above. 
Eighth segment forming a strong broad ring, interrupted ventrally, and 
two small short-haired pads above ostium. Colliculum indicated. Ductus 
bursae narrow. Bursa copulatrix small, spheroid. Signum, a weak folded 
plate with serrate edge. Ovipositor broad, tortricoid. (Slide No. 686 D, 
holotype, No. 718 D, par a type). 
Iebele Camp, 2250 m, October 28, 1938 (holotype). Mist Camp, 1800 m, 
January 10, 1939, Two specimens. Allied to S. neurobajita (Lower, 1909). 
