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MICROLEPIDOETERA OP NEW GUINEA 
second and third connected by a cloudy grey suffusion reaching almost to 
vein 8, its anterior edge marked with a small brown, black-edged dot 
between veins 9 — 10; an irregular slender light fuscous Y-shaped preter- 
minal mark, arms strongly sinuate and parallel above, to vein 8, anterior 
arm sometimes indistinct, stalk narrow, to termen above tornus; a short 
suffused vertical light-fuscous mark in tornus; costa between markings 
minutely dotted with blackish ; a minute marginal dark grey line in apex ; 
faint transverse greyish strigulation all over wing, turning pale fuscous 
posteriorly. Cilia creamy-white, a faint antemedian row of blackish points. 
Hind wing white with a golden gloss, faintly marbled with pale greyish 
towards apex, cilia glossy white. 
Tegumen elongate, concave, narrowed. Uncus rather narrow, a strong 
terminal projection ending in a club with a spike beneath, and a pencil 
of long bristles above. Socius small, pending, with a strong sclerotized 
pending projection at its base, constricted before middle; top of socius 
rounded. Gnathos strong, moderately long, arms little dilated, hook 
moderate, acute. Transtilla strong: a slightly bent transverse rod, with 
a large rising labis at each side, shaped as a finely corrugated concave 
semicircular plate with serrulate edge. Valva semiovate, thickened, cucullus 
obtuse, with bifid flattened bristles, sacculus with a terminal thickening 
covered with stout bifid bristles. Anellus strong, triangular. Aedoeagus 
slender, curved, rather short. (Slide No. 677 D, holotype). 
Ostium funnel-shaped, small. Lirnen, a transverse band, strongly curved 
downward, narrowed laterally. Eighth segment very strong, thickened, 
sclerotized, cylindrical, base dilated, a broad rectangular incision ventrally. 
Ovipositor narrowly cylindrical, dorsal lobes very long. Ductus bursae 
and bursa copulatrix simple. (Slide No. 678 D, allotype). 
Moss Forest Gamp, five km northeast of Lake Habbema, 2800 m, 
October 15, 1938 (holotype, male), October 26, 1939 (allotype, female) 
and October 13, 1938. Two males, two females. 
Schoenotenes sitochroma spec. nov. (fig. 430) 
(7 no; = flour, XQuifia = colour 
cJ 19 mm. Head and thorax whitish-grey, tinged pale fuscous. Palpus 
whitish-grey, median segment towards base above and towards apex 
below, suffused with fuscous. Abdomen creamy-whitish. Legs whitish, 
anterior tibia and tarsus infuscated, pale-ringed. Fore wing elongatc- 
subovate, little dilated, costa gradually curved throughout, apex subacute, 
termen straight, moderately oblique. Pale greyish-white, with raised scales 
along veins, tufts present; irrorated, transversely strigulated and retinate 
with pale fuscous-greyish, markings darker greyish, fuscous-grey and fight 
fulvous-orange. Base, especially towards costa, suffused with fight fuscous- 
greyish; costa with a small dot on base, a transverse invert-T-shaped 
mark beyond this, and about nine somewhat suffused elongate-ovate dots 
