70 
MICKOLEPID OPTERA OE NEW GUINEA 
Schoenotenes glaucops spec. nov. (fig. 458) 
yhiv§ — owl, a>yi = eye 
$ 24 mm. Head white, slightly mixed with dark greyish-fuscous, side- 
tufts white, apex dark greyish-fuscous. Antenna greyish-fuscous, scape 
white, dark greyish-fuscous above. Palpus blackish-fuscous, mixed with 
white. Thorax white, densely mixed with blackish-fuscous except in centre, 
a raised white crest posteriorly, with basal half black. Abdomen light 
brownish-ochreous. Legs pale ochreous, anterior leg black, white-ringed. 
Fore wing roughly scaled along veins anteriorly, basal tuft small, plical 
tuft large, erect, discal moderate; elongate-subtriangular, rather broad, 
costa moderately curved anteriorly, less curved posteriorly, apex sub- 
acute; termen slightly sinuate, little oblique. White, very densely retinate 
and irrorated with fuscous-grey. An almost horizontal, broad, rather short, 
jet-black streak on base of costa; costa throughout with a row of blackish- 
grey dots, posteriorly obscured by other markings; an angulatc transverse 
series of black marks before 1 / 4 , formed by three round dots above fold, 
and an inwardly oblique larger elongate mark below this ; a row of about 
four black points along vein 12, and some three larger black dots between 
veins 10 — 11; some grey suffusion connecting three dots on middle of 
costa, costal edge remaining white; an elongate horizontal deep brown 
patch along posterior third of cell above parting vein, becoming narrower 
and dark fuscous-grey posteriorly, ending in a rounded black projection 
in disc beyond cell; a less distinct elongate patch of dark grey suffusion 
below and parallel to the above mentioned brown patch, reaching below 
about halfway between that and dorsum, transversely strigulated with 
black anteriorly; a pale fulvous-brownish suffusion in middle of cell above 
parting vein; tufts white with posterior third blackish; a few oblique 
blackish short strigulae at 1 / 3 , and at 2 / 3 of fold ; costal patch rather small, 
subtriangular, irregular, dark grey, with four black dots arranged in a 
quadrate, two lower dots largest ; a short curved vertical dark grey strigula 
from middle of posterior edge of costal patch ; a dark grey blackish-edged 
preterminal streak from dorsum just before tornus to above vein 7, 
slightly spindle-shaped, faintly sinuate; median half of dorsum with a 
suffused grey streak; terminal edge narrowly dark greyish-fuscous. Cilia 
white, tips light greyish, an antemedian row of dark fuscous dots, two 
bars before, one below apex dark fuscous; cilia in tornus pale fuscous. 
Hind wing whitish, suffused with greyish-fuscous except towards base, 
becoming darker and slightly marbled with darker grey posteriorly ; cilia 
white touched with pale ochreous, with an indication of an interrupted 
pale fuscous antemedian line; suffused pale fuscous bars above and 
below apex. 
Limen membraneous, only laterally forming a moderate plicate scle- 
rotized body. Ostium wide, somewhat projecting, lateral rims strong. 
Eighth segment, a narrow sclerotized ring. Ductus and bursa simple. 
