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MICROLEPID OPTERA OE NEW GUINEA 
triangular spot on 3 / 4 of costa; discal tuft small, white anteriorly, dark 
fuscous posteriorly; a small dark fuscous tuft on closing vein, preceded 
by white scales; a faint elongate patch of preterminal suffusion parallel 
to edge of wing, from above tomus to below apex. Cilia dirty whitish, 
light fuscous in tornus, an antcmedian row of light fuscous dots, fuscous 
bars on costa and below apex. Hind wing and cilia glossy white. 
Limen very broad, with a pair of raised slender appendages in middle 
of upper edge, fine-haired. Seventh ventrite with a transverse triangular 
plate, with lower edge excavate in middle. Ductus bursae rather long. 
Bursa copulatrix simple. Ovipositor lobe elongate-reniform, narrow, 
upper half with a rounded dorsal pad. Signum absent. (Slide No. 720 D). 
Letter Box Camp, valley four km east of Wilhelmina Top, 3600 m, 
September 12, 1938. One specimen. 
Schoenotenes rubiginosa spec. nov. (figs. 427, 428) 
? 18 mm. Head and thorax pale grey-whitish, touched with pale 
ochreous, posterior half white, apical tuft pale fulvous. Palpus white, an 
oblique fascia across median segment, and a ring on terminal segment, 
light greyish-fuscous. Abdomen whitish, slightly infuscated above. Legs 
whitish, anterior and median tibia and tarsus suffused and banded with 
black, anterior tarsus tinged bronze. Bore wing with veins raised, roughish ; 
broad, dilated, triangular-ovate; costa considerably curved anteriorly, 
less curved posteriorly, apex subobtuse, termen straight above, rounded 
beneath, little oblique. Creamy-wliite. Basal 2 / s of costa with four dark 
greyish-fuscous dots, first dot larger, with a minute longitudinal dark 
brown streak below; edge of basal patch indicated by a straight oblique 
row of ferruginous-fuscous dots, from below costa between second and 
third costal dot, to 2 / s of dorsum ; a broad invert-trapezoid transverse 
patch of coarse retination extending on costa from 2 / s to 5 / e , on dorsum 
from middle to before 3 / 4 : along costa greyish-fuscous, in disc light fulvous, 
dorsal third blackish; three transverse small wedge-shaped greyish streaks 
on posterior third of costa, becoming smaller towards apex; dark fuscous 
slightly outwardly curved strigulae: one vertical from tornus to lower 
angle of cell, and two oblique strigulae preterminal, tending to coalesce 
in an ovate preterminal mark from vein 8 to vein 3, with a minute 
projection below to termen above tornus; terminal edge with a row of 
minute ferruginous-fuscous marginal streaks between veins. Cilia white, 
basal half creamy-wliite, an antemedian row of triangular ferruginous- 
fuscous dots. Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 connate; light greyish-fuscous, 
more infuscated in apex, cilia white. 
Ostium moderate, circular. Eighth segment strongly sclerotized, forming 
a high collar dorsally, with upper rim invaginated, a few large bristles at 
the sides; ventrally two strong arms support ostium and touch each other 
in middle. Limen situated ventrally of these arms: straight, upper edge 
