MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
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rather weak, rising, W-shaped. Valva broad at base, strongly narrowed; 
cucullus oblique, costa broad; sacculus under 1 / 2 , posterior half angularly 
bent upwards, clavate, with bifid bristles. Aedoeagus moderate, terminal 
projection rather short. (Slide No. 715 D). 
Moss Forest Camp, five km northeast of Lake Habbema, 2800 m, 
October 19, 1938. One specimen. 
Schoenotenes lithodes spec. nov. (fig. 441) 
fa&u>dr)i = stone-like 
$ 20 mm. Head and thorax white, mixed with black, vertex between 
antennae and middle of thorax with a black transverse band. Palpus 
black, median segment with apex white, terminal white with a black 
median ring. Abdomen whitish. Legs white, anterior tibia and tarsus 
black, white-ringed, median leg with knee and a basal band black. Fore 
wing with plica! and discal tufts raised; elongate-subtruneate, costa 
gradually curved throughout, apex subacute, termen faintly sinuate, 
oblique. White, touched with pale yellow-greenish, retinate and irrorated 
with dark grey, markings dark grey and blackish-fuscous, dotted with 
black. Anterior fourth of costa suffused with grey, edged below costa with 
a streak of blackish irroration, with about six black costal dots; a narrow, 
slightly curved transverse striga of blackish irroration before J / 4 of wing, 
angulate in middle of disc, to above dorsum; a large ill-defined and 
suffused dark grey patch along central fifth of costa, slightly constricted 
below costa, dilated and ovate in cell, with lower edge almost to fold; 
this patch with two black dots on costa, with coarse black irroration 
above cell, transversely strigulated and suffused with dark fuscous in cell; 
tufts white, edged with black posteriorly; costal patch small, triangular, 
top obliquely elongated towards discal patch between veins 9 — 10; this 
patch dark grey, edged with black, two black dots on costa; a round grey 
spot above tornus, a slender elongate blackish mark before middle of 
termen; terminal edge irrorated with dark grey; two small transverse 
marks on costa before apex ; a streak of dark grey retaliation along dorsum 
from beyond base to before tornus, narrowed posteriorly. Cilia white, 
touched with very pale greenish-yellow, tips mixed with grey, basal half 
with dark grey, two blackish bars before, one below apex. Hind wing 
white, posterior half faintly marbled with dark grey, cilia white. 
Tegumen moderately elongate. Uncus with a long, gradually curved, 
not dilated hook. Socius moderate, rounded. Gnathos robust, with long 
porrect median projections, hook broad, truncate, terminal edge irregularly 
serrate. Transtilla W-shaped, with broad lateral dilatations. Valva broad, 
obliquely narrowed beyond middle, costa projecting, sacculus 1 / 2 , ending 
in a rounded large knob with bifid bristles. Aedoeagus curved, terminal 
projection moderate. Cornutus, one spine. (Slide No. 708 D). 
Lake Habbema, 3250 — 3300 m, end July — end August, 1938. One 
specimen. 
