MICROLEPIDOPTERA OP NEW GUINEA 
69 
Schoenotenes orphnina spec. nov. (fig. 457) 
oQfpvivoQ = dark 
$ 23 mm. Head white, slightly mixed on vertex with fuscous-grey. 
Antenna blackish, scape white mixed above with fuscous-grey. Palpus 
long, dark greyish-fuscous; median segment with a rectangular white spot 
on upper posterior fourth; terminal segment mixed with white. Thorax 
white, mixed with fuscous-blackish, shoulder fuscous-blackish mixed with 
white. Abdomen pale ochreous-whitish, ovipositor orange. Legs whitish, 
anterior tibia and tarsus blackish above, white-ringed, median tibia and 
tarsus with dark fuscous bands, posterior tibia with fuscous base. Fore 
wing roughly scaled along veins anteriorly, tufts strongly raised; elongate- 
subtriangular, costa considerably curved anteriorly, little curved posteri- 
orly; apex rather pointed, termen slightly sinuate, little oblique. White, 
densely irrorated and retinate with blackish-fuscous. A black triangular 
patch on base of costa, reaching to fold, its narrow top slightly extended 
along fold; costa with a row of blackish dots, obscured by other markings 
posteriorly; a short inwardly oblique strigula at 1 / 3 of fold not reaching 
dorsum ; accessory cell suffused with light orange-brownish ; a large cloudy 
subtriangular black patch along costa from 2 / 5 to 5 / 6 , reaching to fold 
anteriorly and enclosing the above mentioned suffusion in cell; anterior 
edge of this patch suffused, concave, almost vertical, its lower edge 
ill-defined, becoming greyish posteriorly; posterior edge of patch well- 
defined, inwardly oblique, with a narrow curved indentation below middle 
which separates a rounded projection in disc beyond end of cell; discal 
tuft conspicuously white; an elongate subterminal patch from tornus to 
above vein 7, dark grey, edged and suffused above with black, narrowed 
above, sometimes constricted on vein 4; apex somewhat edged with 
blackish. Cilia white, an antemedian row of fuscous-blackish blotches 
which become pale ochreous towards base, and a row of pale greyish 
suffused spots along apical third opposite those blotches; two blackish 
bars on costal cilia before apex. Hind wing white, posterior half suffused 
with fuscous-grey, marbled with darker grey; cilia white, a faint inter- 
rupted pale fuscous antemedian line, and grey bars on costa before apex. 
Limen represented by two rising sclerotized triangular blades, w r ith 
acute tops and corrugated surface. Ostium sclerotized, forming a short 
tube, fine-haired on inner surface. Ductus bursae narrow. Bursa copulatrix 
simple. Eighth segment, a sclerotized, moderate ring. Ovipositor lobe 
narrow, dorsal pad large, fine-haired, with a rounded upper half and a 
triangularly projecting lower half. (Slide No. 722 D, holotype). 
Moss Forest Camp, five km northeast of Lake Habbema, 2800 m, 
October 15, 1938 (holotype), October 9 — November 5, 1938. Lake Habbema, 
3250 — 3300 m, October 19, 1938. Four specimens. Closely allied to the 
preceding species. 
