MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
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rounded spot on middle of dorsum, greyish, black-edged; a somewhat 
oblique small spot on cell, connected above by a narrow interrupted fascia 
with costa beyond x / 4 and below by transverse lines of black irroration 
with a moderate grey suffusion on dorsum beyond middle not reaching 
tornus; these markings suffused with yellowish in disc, especially in fold; 
two small round blackish-grey dots on base of veins 8 and 9 respectively; 
costal patch U-shaped, connecting two costal dots, slightly projecting 
below anteriorly; below this a faint greyish-yellowish transverse suffusion 
in disc, marked with blackish on veins ; a faint yellowish tinge on transverse 
vein, almost connected with grey dorsal suffusion; a vertical moderate 
mark of blackish and yellowish irroration on dorsum before tornus ; a large 
preterminal blackish mark consisting of two interconnected vertical erect- 
truncate blotches between veins 3 — 6 and 6 — 8, respectively, upper blotch 
posterior; costa between markings with black points, two dark grey dots 
before apex. Cilia white, an interrupted antemedian fascia. Hind wing and 
cilia glossy-white. 
Ostium wide. Limen strong, sides plicate, two narrow straight transverse 
ridges in middle. No colliculum. Ductus bursae short, lower half sclerotized, 
with regular longitudinal folds. Genital segment forming a broad, pubescent 
collar dorsally and laterally. Ovipositor lobe curved, dilated distally, a 
large erect-ovate smooth dorsal lobe. Anus conical, orifice bristled. (Slide 
No. 668 D, holotype). 
Mist Camp, 1800 m, January 17, 1939 (holotype). Rattan Camp, 1200 m, 
March 1, 1938. Two specimens. 
Schoenotenes affinis spec. nov. (fig. 451) 
$ 16 mm. Head pale whitish-fuscous. Palpus moderate, slender, porrect; 
whitish, suffused with greyish except towards base below and towards 
apices of median and terminal segments. Thorax sordid whitish? (denuded). 
Abdomen pale whitish-ochreous. Legs whitish, anterior tibia tinged 
ochreous, anterior and median tarsus suffused with fuscous-grey, pale- 
ringed. Fore wing with raised scales along veins, tufts present; elongate- 
subovate, rather little dilated, costa curved at extremities, less so 
posteriorly, straight in middle, apex subacute, termen gently convex, 
rather oblique. Whitish, finely irrorated with pale grey, markings black 
on costa, blackish-fuscous in disc. About nine inequal black dots along 
costa, first dot forming a transverse mark somewhat constricted in middle, 
second and third also transverse, very small; base of costal edge suffused 
with grey ; an ill-defined interrupted transverse band of blackish irroration 
from below third costal dot to above 1 j a of dorsum, preceded by a rounded 
spot of the same irroration below fold; about three rounded spots of 
blackish-fuscous irroration below middle of costa, median one largest; 
two round dots below upper edge of cell, in its middle, and at 3 / 4 , 
respectively, some irregular irroration between these ; an outwardly oblique 
