MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
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Schoenotenes acrogonia spec. nov. (figs. 437, 453, 454) 
axQOv = margin, yiovia = a hook 
18 — 20 mm, $ 19 — 23 mm. Head white, in male slightly suffused on 
vertex with light brownish-fuscous. Palpus in male light greyish-fuscous ; 
in female palpus dark fuscous with base and upper and terminal edge 
of median segment white. Thorax whitish, more or less mixed with dark 
fuscous. Abdomen pale ochreous in male, white in female. Legs dirty 
whitish, anterior tibia and tarsus dark fuscous, white-ringed, median 
tarsus fuscous-banded. Fore wing white, partially irrorated with dark 
fuscous-grey, markings blackish-grey, and ferruginous-brown. Anterior 
fourth of costa with a suffused elongate dark grey patch, dotted with 
black along costal edge, connected with dorsum by rather sparse dark 
fuscous irroration; a conspicuous elongate-subovate dark grey patch along 
costa from 1 / 3 to before 2 / 3 , transversely strigulated and dotted with black, 
connected below with a triangular spot of transverse ferruginous-brown 
strigulation ; top of this spot reaching to about middle of fold, sometimes 
followed in disc by one or two transverse strigulae ol the same colour, or 
extended posteriorly by a short streak along upper edge of cell; plical 
tuft small, white anteriorly, blackish posteriorly; a rather small sub- 
triangular or rounded-quadrate suffused dark grey spot on 3 / 4 of costa, 
mixed with black above, with anterior edge well-defined, slightly inwardly 
oblique, top of spot almost to vein 8; rather pale fuscous irroration 
extending along dorsal third of wing, becoming darker fuscous-grey or 
blackish-fuscous posteriorly, and forming a rounded spot above tornus; 
this spot connected above with an erect spot extending beyond the last 
mentioned spot along upper half of termen, sometimes represented by two 
transverse narrow striae, terminating in two small blackish dots on costa 
before apex; apex and terminal edge denser irrorated and suffused with 
greyish-fuscous. Cilia whitish, apical third suffused with grey, a subbasal 
row of blackish bars. Hind wing whitish, with cloudy dark marbling 
posteriorly; cilia white, faintly tinged greyish towards apex, with a few 
faint greyish antemedian dots. 
Tegumen elongate. Uncus small with a long gradually curved hook, 
which has a short dorsal knob before its apex, apex of hook short-bifid. 
Socius small, elongate, a short triangular prominence above its base 
(hamus?). Gnathos moderate, arms curved, with short projections before 
top, top short-dentate. Transtilla simple, shaped as a broad elongate- 
semiovate band. Valva strongly narrowed beyond middle, costa moderate, 
projecting posteriorly, sacculus under 1 / 2 , strongly bent and projecting, 
crowned with a large knob with bifid bristles. Aedoeagus long, sinuate, 
with a strong terminal horn. Cornutus, a single strong spine. (Slide 
No. 723 D, holotype). 
Limen weak, membraneous. Eighth segment sclerotized: a broad 
collar-like tergite, and a moderate transverse finely haired plate above 
