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MICROLEPIDOPTERAOF NEW GUINEA 
ostium. Ductus bursae with a moderate slender cestum which is excavate 
at upper extremity. Bursa copulatrix simple. Ovipositor lobe narrow, 
sinuate, dorsal pad swollen so as to form a large vesicle-like body. (Slide 
No. 724 D, allotype). 
Moss Forest Camp, 2600 — 2800 m, October 9 — November 5, 1938 
(holotype, male; allotype, female). Lake Habbema, 3200 m, end July— 
end August, 1938. Two males, five females. 
Schoenotenes rhodantha spec. nov. (fig. 455) 
Qodo; = red, dv&oQ = gem 
9 23 mm. Head whitish, suffused with pale reddish-brown. Palpus 
rather pale fuscous, apices of median and terminal segments white. Thorax 
white, slightly mixed along edge with light reddish-brown; tegula light 
ferruginous-brownish. Abdomen pale whitish-ochreous. Legs ochreous- 
whitish, anterior tibia and tarsus blackish-fuscous, pale-ringed, median 
tibia and tarsus banded with pale fuscous. Fore wing elongate-subovate, 
moderately broad, dilated, costa considerably curved anteriorly, less 
curved posteriorly; apex pointed, slightly projecting, termen sinuate, 
moderately oblique. White, partially irrorated with fuscous. A deep 
ferruginous-brown suffusion along 5 / f) of costa, mixed with dark brown in 
centre, narrow at base of wing, rather abruptly dilated from middle of 
cell, reaching well beyond closing vein, in middle of wing almost reaching 
fold; lower edge of this suffusion indistinct, posterior rather well-defined, 
with a narrow curved indentation above middle, rounded above and below 
this; plical tuft white, suffused with ferruginous-brownish posteriorly, 
discal tuft ferruginous-brown; an outwardly oblique erect-ovate dark 
fuscous patch in tornus connected above anteriorly with the above 
mentioned suffusion; an erect-ovate dark fuscous preterminal patch; two 
ferruginous dots on costa before apex, a streak of fuscous retination along 
dorsum below vein lb; terminal edge with a narrow dark fuscous streak, 
interrupted in tornus, with a minute branch before apex to last costal 
dot. Cilia white, with an antemedian row of short transverse streaks, 
basal half of cilia opposite these streaks pale ochreous. Hind wing white, 
marbled with grey along apical third, cilia white. 
Limen, a narrow transverse rather weak band. Seventh ventrite forming 
two pairs of fine-haired lobes: anterior (lower in figure), touching each 
other in middle, and posterior, smaller lobes. Ductus bursae with a distinct 
cestum, angulate above. Bursa copulatrix small, simple. Ovipositor lobe 
peculiar: cylindrical, fine-haired, with weak bristles, base sclerotized. 
(Slide No. 727 D). 
Moss Forest Camp, five km northeast of Lake Habbema, 2800 m, 
October 10, 1938. One specimen. 
