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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
Schoenotenes coccyx spec. nov. 
xoxxvt; = cuckoo 
$ 20 mm. Head whitish, slightly suffused with pale fuscous-tawny. 
Palpus rather long, gradually bowed downward, porrect; golden-fuscous, 
irrorated with white, terminal segment greyish, white-tipped. Antenna 
fuscous. Thorax whitish, irrorated with light tawny -fuscous, tegula strongly 
mixed with fuscous. Abdomen light fuscous? (much damaged, posterior 
part missing). Legs white, anterior tibia and tarsus suffused with blackish, 
white-ringed, median tibia and tarsus with golden-fuscous bands. Fore 
wing rather narrow, elongate-triangular, dilated, costa gradually curved 
throughout, apex subobtuse, termen hardly sinuate, rather oblique. 
Creamy-whitish, strongly retinate with dark fuscous-bronze, retination 
isolating rounded spots of ground colour of different sizes, more distinct 
and larger spots arranged as follows. An elongate -quadrate larger spot 
on 1 / 3 of costa, traversed by a narrow fuscous-bronze line; two smaller 
irregular patches on 2 / 3 of costa, followed by three transverse narrow 
wedge-shaped costal marks, posterior before apex; three large round spots 
along upper edge of cell from beyond base to middle of wing, followed by 
two smaller dots along vein 10, and two more dots below r middle of costa; 
a large round dot on fold before middle, another dot filling posterior end 
of cell, numerous round dots of various sizes between these; a moderate 
dot between veins 8 and 9 beyond cell; two parallel narrow, little inter- 
rupted fasciae of ground colour from 3 / 4 of dorsum to below middle of 
vein 8; a preterminal row of moderate spots on veins, and a row of larger 
spots along dorsal edge. Cilia whitish, along costa barred with fuscous- 
bronze, an antemedian row of fuscous-bronze blotches. Hind wing whitish 
tinged pale fuscous, gradually suffused with darker fuscous posteriorly, in 
apex slightly marbled with greyish. 
Moss Forest Camp, 2800 m, October 13, 1938. One specimen. Colouring 
typical and distinct. 
Schoenotenes cuspidata spec. nov. (fig. 447) 
$ 22 mm. Head and thorax creamy-white mixed with fuscous-grey. 
Palpus rather long, fuscous-grey, median segment above posteriorly white. 
Abdomen ochreous-greyish-white. Legs whitish, anterior tibia and tarsus 
suffused with grey, posterior leg tinged ochreous. Fore wing elongate- 
subtriangular, dilated, costa gradually curved throughout, less curved 
posteriorly, apex subobtuse, termen straight, oblique. Veins 7 and 8 
stalked, 7 to termen. White, faintly tinged ochreous anteriorly, densely 
scattered with small fuscous dots which tend to form transverse strigulation ; 
basal patch indicated by an irregular darker fuscous, strongly angulate 
transverse fascia at 1 / 5 , less distinct on dorsum ; an irregular darker fuscous 
