MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
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beneath, moderately oblique. Creamy-white, faintly suffused with pale 
fuscous, markings light grey. Base of costa with a moderate triangular 
patch to base of vein 1 2 ; about nine costal marks beyond this patch, three 
anterior dots small, continued as narrow oblique lines to vein 12, other 
dots moderate subtriangular or semicircular, two preapical dots smaller; 
costal markings alternating with minute transverse strigulae; central 
fascia indicated by a small suffused patch below costa before middle, and 
an ill-defined broad blotch of transverse strigulation on middle of dorsum; 
this blotch slightly inwardly oblique, reaching to middle of disc, sometimes 
connected with preceding markings by faint fuscous-greyish suffusion, 
sometimes almost entirely obliterate; an elongate group of about four 
suffused greyish dots below 1 / i of costa, indicating costal patch posteriorly, 
giving rise to two narrow, sinuate greyish lines; these lines slightly dilated 
on veins, almost vertical, running to tornus and to termen above torn us 
respectively, posterior line forming a small circle in its middle; a faint 
transverse line on 2 / 5 of dorsum to fold; wing between markings rather 
sparsely transversely strigulated and irrorated with greyish, except on 
anterior third ; a broad ridge of thick moderately raised scales on furcation 
of vein lb. Cilia white, an antemedian row of blackish elongate marks. 
Hind wing and cilia glossy-white. 
Tegumen deeply concave, angularly bent below middle. Uncus moderate, 
forming a rather broad porrect blunt projection, crowned with strong 
sinuate ribbon-like bristles. Hamus slender, porrect, top hooked laterad. 
Socius minute. Gnathos moderate, porrect, semioval, arms very broad, 
united in a slender terminal hook. Transtilla moderate, sinuate. Valva 
semiovate, concave, costa haired, cucullus forming a rounded knob, 
sacculus over 1 / 2 , with an elongate thickening terminally, covered with 
strong, long bristles. Aedoeagus slender, moderately curved anteriorly, 
finely scobinate posteriorly. Cornutus, a strong spine. (Slide No. 673 D, 
holotype). 
Baliem Camp, 1600 m, December 8, 1938 (holotype), December 9, 1938. 
Mist Camp, 1800 m, January 7, 1939. Rattan Camp, 1200 m, March 4, 
1939. Five specimens. Allied to S. paraptera Meyrick. 
Schoenotenes pallida spec. nov. (fig. 445) 
$ 19 mm. Head and thorax whitish-grey, touched with pale ochreous. 
Palpus long, ascending, whitish, median segment with a broad fuscous-grey 
median suffusion except below. Abdomen ochreous-wbitish, towards base 
silvery-white. Legs whitish, anterior tibia and tarsus dark grey above, 
white-ringed. Fore wing elongate-subovate, dilated; costa curved through- 
out, more so anteriorly; apex subobtuse, termen slightly rounded, almost 
vertical. Sordid whitish, touched with pale ochreous along anterior half, 
marbled and transversely strigulated with pale grey, less distinctly on 
terminal fourth. Base of costa with an in vert-f -shaped black mark, 
