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MICROLEPID OPT ERA OF NEW GUINEA 
Schoenotenes olivacea spec. nov. (fig. 443) 
c? 18 mm. Head fuscous-whitish. Palpus light fuscous, mixed laterally 
with darker fuscous. Thorax pale whitish-olive (posteriorly rubbed), tegula 
mixed with brighter olive-green. Abdomen pale ochreous-whitish (damaged). 
Legs whitish, tinged pale ochreous-fuscous, anterior tibia and tarsus dark 
fuscous, pale-ringed, median tibia and tarsus banded with light fuscous. 
Fore wing rather smooth, plical scale tuft very large, second discal 
moderate; elongate-subovate, costa moderately curved anteriorly, slightly 
curved towards apex, apex subobtuse, termen hardly sinuate, oblique. 
Whitish, suffused and dotted with light greenish-olive, irrorated and less 
suffused with dark fuscous, markings dark greyish-fuscous, partially much 
obscured by greenish-olive irroration. Basal third of costa narrowly 
suffused with dark greyish-fuscous, slightly dotted with whitish anteriorly, 
posteriorly with a quadrate patch reaching to cell; olive suffusion below 
1 / 6 of costa reaching to cell, along second sixth of costa almost obscuring 
the above mentioned quadrate fuscous patch, extending below to lower 
edge of cell and dilated so as to form a rather well-defined large trapezoid 
patch; a large irregularly erect-triangular greyish-fuscous costal patch, 
dotted with blackish-fuscous along costa, extending from before middle 
to before apex; a slightly inwards-oblique, erect-ovate whitish spot on 
costa beyond middle of this patch, dotted with dark greyish-fuscous; 
anterior edge of costal patch running obliquely to upper edge of cell, 
bluntly angulate, thence along cell to closing vein, posterior edge somewhat 
excavate below middle, rather suffused; upper half of cell posteriorly- 
suffused with light greenish-olive, this colour also irregularly edging costal 
patch and cell posteriorly, and forming coarse transverse strigulation 
between both fuscous costal marks, and in lower half of cell posteriorly; 
both tufts of raised scales greenish-olive; a narrow dark fuscous, suffused 
streak edging cell posteriorly, connected by a patch of transverse pale 
greyish-fuscous strigulation with dorsum before tornus; a large triangular 
patch of light fuscous irroration from 1 / 4 of dorsum to beyond middle, 
anterior margin well-defined, posterior much more oblique, narrowly edged 
with blackish-fuscous above, dissolved in fuscous irroration below, which 
is extended along dorsum to before tornus ; top of patch to lower edge of 
cell, irrorated with greenish-olive; a small blackish-fuscous dot on 2 / 3 of 
fold ; a large patch of light greenish-olive-yellow retination in tornus and 
along termen to vein 8, ovate as far as vein 4, narrowed above, edged below 
anteriorly with dark fuscous; terminal edge suffused with fuscous; dorsal 
edge dotted with darker fuscous. Cilia whitish, barred with fuscous, bars 
with basal half dark fuscous. Hind wing and cilia whitish, costal cilia 
dotted with light fuscous. 
Tegumen elongate. Uncus moderate, hook rather long, curved, terminally 
dilated, bifid and bristled below. Socius small. Gnathos with large porrect 
blunt median projections, top slender, hooked, short-dentate. Transtilla 
