MICROLEPID OPTEEA OF NEW GUINEA 
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Schoenotenes triangulura spec. nov. (fig. 423) 
$ 16 mm. Head whitish suffused with pale fuscous-grey. Palpus rather 
long, fuscous-greyish-whitish, base and tip white. Thorax whitish, densely 
suffused with light grey, a darker grey longitudinal median line, edges of 
thorax posteriorly and apex white, tegula edged with white. Abdomen 
pale grey-whitish. Legs whitish, anterior tibia and tarsus suffused with 
dark grey above, white-ringed. Pore wing with raised scales along veins 
and with tufts, clongate-subtruncate, rather broad, little dilated; costa 
gradually and moderately curved anteriorly, little curved posteriorly, 
apex subacute, termen tolerably straight, rounded beneath, moderately 
oblique. White, suffused and finely irrorated with grey along anterior half, 
irrorated with dark fuscous posteriorly, markings dark fuscous. A cloudy 
grey suffusion along 3 / 5 of costa, with lower edge rather well-defined, 
horizontal, running slightly above middle of disc to beyond 1 / 4 of wing 
length; termination of this suffusion almost rectangular, its posterior edge 
strongly suffused, paler above; a series of suffused dark grey small dots 
along costa; rather faint grey retination and transverse strigulation along 
dorsum to before tornus, with a faint narrow vertical projection to above 
middle of disc at 1 / 3 and beyond middle, respectively, latter projection 
interrupted; a large erect-triangular suffused light greyish-fuscous costal 
patch, from beyond 2 / 5 to before apex, top to base of vein 6; this patch 
narrowly edged anteriorly, broadly posteriorly, with blackish-fuscous, with 
four costal dots of the same colour, first and last on angles of patch, 
second and third continued by a narrow blackish-fuscous streak with 
lower edge of patch; irregular fuscous irroration on posterior third of wing 
with anterior edge straight, and running from top of costal patch to 
tornus; this irroration arranged posteriorly in more or less distinct rows 
parallel to termen ; terminal edge with a narrow fuscous fine, slightly dilated 
on terminations of veins. Cilia white with an antemedian row of suffused 
fuscous points. Hind wing and cilia white, palely touched with yellowish. 
Ostium rather wide. Limen forming a broad ovate ventral band with 
two concave, semiovate, short -bristled pads above. Ductus bursae narrow, 
very long. B ursa copulatrix large, spheroid. Ovipositor lobe elongate- 
reniform, distal half thickened. Signum absent. (Slide No. 684 D, holotype). 
Mist Camp, 1800 m, January 10, 1939 (holotype), January 12, 1939. 
Sigi Camp 1500 m, February 26, 1939. Three specimens. 
Schoenotenes infuscata spec. nov. (figs. 436, 444) 
o 18 — 21 mm, $ 22 mm. Head sordid whitish, tinged pale greyish, tufts 
darker grey. Palpus moderate, porrect, straight; whitish, laterally mixed 
and suffused with light fuscous. Thorax fight fuscous-grey, in female paler, 
tegulae isabel-coloured, slightly mixed with pale fuscous. Abdomen pale 
ochreous-whitish. Legs isabel-coloured, anterior tibia and tarsus infuscated, 
pale-ringed. Fore wing elongate-subovate, little dilated, costa gradually 
