MICROLEPI DOPTERA OP NEW GUINEA 
55 
above, apex wliite, terminal segment with a small median grey dot above. 
Abdomen whitish (posterior part missing). Legs whitish, anterior tibia 
and tarsus dark fuscous, white-ringed. Fore wing elongate, narrow, 
gradually dilated, costa moderately curved throughout, apex obtuse, 
termen straight, oblique. White, touched with pale ochreous, partially 
irrorated with olive-ochreous, markings black. Costa slightly suffused with 
grey anteriorly, with a row of small black dots throughout, becoming 
largest towards 3 / 4 ; a moderate horizontal elongate patch of black irroration 
below fold before 1 / l of wing, connected below with coarse dark grey 
transverse strigulation which extends along dorsum from beyond base to 
tornus; an outwardly oblique transverse elongate irrorated patch in cell 
beyond middle, black above, olive below; this patch connected posteriorly 
with a faint narrow transverse fascia of olive irroration mixed with black 
scales, that are especially dense along posterior edge; this fascia beginning 
with two black points on middle of costa, and ending in a semiovate patch 
of grey suffusion and black transverse strigulation below fold on dorsum 
beyond middle; a dark grey small patch in upper half of cell posteriorly, 
extending beyond closing vein; dark brownish irroration below 3 / 4 of costa 
turning olive below and almost connected with preceding ; an erect-ovate 
spot of olive irroration in tornus, slightly inwardly oblique, to vein 4; 
a somewhat sinuate olive preterminal patch, with narrow base, from 
termen above tornus almost to costa. Cilia white. Hind wing and cilia 
pure white. 
Top Camp, 2100 m, January 24, 1939. One specimen. Damaged, but 
quite distinct by the small size and by markings. 
Schoenotenes chalcotypa spec. nov. (fig. 448) 
yaX>coTVJtoQ = coppersmith 
$ 19 mm. Head and thorax white, mixed with greyish-fuscous, patagium 
and tegula densely suffused with greyish. Palpus rather long, greyish- 
fuscous, apex and upper edge of median segment, and base of terminal 
segment white. Antenna fuscous, scape white. Abdomen pale ochreous- 
greyish. Legs whitish, anterior and median tibia and tarsus banded with 
pale greyish. Fore wing with ridges of raised scales along veins, plical and 
discal tufts large. White, markings dark fuscous and black, suffused with 
light yellowish-ochreous. Basal ®/ 4 of costa with a row of moderate black 
dots alternating with smaller ones ; basal patch moderate, suffused with 
light yellowish-ochreous, edged by a straight moderate dark fuscous fascia 
from x / 5 of costa to 1 / 3 of dorsum; a patch of light yellowish-ochreous 
suffusion from below 2 / 5 of costa to middle of disc beyond cell, with upper 
edge bearing a few blackish dots; posterior half dilated and sharply edged 
by a dark fuscous almost semicircular moderate streak of more or less 
interconnected dots, from vein 9 to vein 2 at 2 / s of wing, top in middle of 
disc at 3 / 4 ; costal patch moderate, erect-clavate, vertical, on 4 / 5 of costa, 
