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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
reaching to vein 8, dark fuscous; apex, termen and tornus transversely 
strigulated with irregular narrow sinuate light fuscous-strigulae, slightly 
dilated on veins. Cilia white, basal half touched with ochreous, a sub- 
median row of fuscous dots. Hind wing white, pellucent, cilia white. 
Ostium moderate. Liruen simple, little dilated in middle, straight, with 
weak triangular lateral projections below. Ductus bursae rather short. 
Bursa copulatrix large, simple. Eighth segment sclerotized, simple. 
Ovipositor lobe elongate, lower part narrowed, curved. (Slide No. 652 D). 
Mist Camp, 1800 m, January 17, 1939. One specimen. Belongs to the 
group of S. paraptera Meyrick. 
Schoenotenes argentea spec. nov. (fig. 439) 
<? 18 mm. Head and palpus light fuscous-greyish, median segment of 
the latter darker greyish. Thorax whitish, suffused anteriorly and posteri- 
orly with light fuscous-grey. Abdomen greyish-white. Legs whitish, anterior 
tibia and tarsus suffused with fuscous-grey, pale-ringed. Fore wing 
elongate-subtriangular, rather narrow, costa moderately curved towards 
extremities, straight in middle, apex subobtuse, termen hardly concave, 
oblique. Glossy-white, slightly scattered with fuscous scales, markings 
extended, greyish-fuscous, irrorated with white. A semiovate patch on 
base of costa, not reaching fold; a small irroration in base of fold; a 
transverse, oblique, rather broad fascia from before 1 / 5 of costa, connected 
with preceding mark, to above 1 / 4 of dorsum, abruptly dilated in fold, 
connected below with transverse grey strigulation extending along dorsum 
below vein lb; a broad transverse median fascia, outwardly oblique, 
gradually narrowed below, almost interrupted above cell; this fascia 
extended in middle posteriorly by a rectangular projection between 
veins 5 — 10 that reaches to beyond cell, and is connected above with 
costal patch, below with tornal markings ; discal tuft small, white ; costal 
patch small, subquadrate, beyond 3 /„, followed by a small dot on costa 
before apex; an erect-ovate patch just above tornus, connected above 
anteriorly with median fascia, posteriorly with an irregular subterminal 
elongate patch to apex, more oblique than terminal edge, with three-four 
vertical branches descending on that edge. Cilia white, an antemedian 
row of light fuscous dots. Hind wing whitish touched with pale grey, 
apical fourth suffused with darker grey, faintly marbled. Cilia white, a 
narrow antemedian pale fuscous shade. 
Tegumen erect. Uncus moderate, hook rather short, with a few terminal 
bristles. Socius narrow, pending. Gnathos strong, a subacute porrect 
projection in middle of each arm, hook blunt, short-dentate. Transtilla 
semimembraneous, rising, W-sliaped. Valva narrow: cucullus obliquely 
truncate, costa narrow, sacculus over 1 / 2 , ending in an oblique, ovate pad 
with bifid bristles. Aedoeagus moderate, slightly sinuate, orifice below 
with a long horn. (Slide No. 719 D). 
Moss Forest Camp, 2800 m, August 23, 1938. One specimen. 
