MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
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Ovipositor lobe narrowed and curved below, dorsal pads large, rounded. 
(Slide No. 728 D, holotype). 
Moss Forest Camp, five km northeast of Lake Habbema, 2800 m, 
October 17, 1938 (holotype, female). Two specimens. Closely allied to 
S. ophiodora spec. nov. 
Schoenotenes ophiodora spec. nov. (figs. 456, 464) 
otpig = snake, dona = skin 
cJ, $ 23 — 26 mm. Head white, densely mixed with blackish-fuscous or 
black. Palpus blackish-fuscous or dark fuscous, basal segment white 
below; median segment mixed with white above posteriorly, apex white- 
edged; terminal segment mixed with white. Antenna whitish ringed with 
fuscous, towards base suffused with black; scape white, with a blackish- 
fuscous patch towards base above. Thorax with a strong white posterior 
crest ; thorax in male dark fuscous, mixed with white, in female white 
mixed with dark fuscous, with a black median transverse band. Abdomen 
pale ochreous-whitish in male, snow-white in female. Legs pale ochreous- 
whitish or white, anterior tibia and tarsus black, white-ringed, median 
tibia and tarsus black-banded, knee black. Fore wing elongate-triangular, 
broadly dilated, costa gradually curved throughout, apex subobtuse, 
termen hardly concave in middle, little oblique ; roughly scaled, ridges of 
raised scales along veins becoming larger basally, a large ridge along basal 
half of upper edge of cell, a large plical and a moderate discal tuft of 
raised scales. White, densely retinate with brown or grey, suffused with 
brown, markings suffused with dark grey, dotted with black. A row of 
black dots along costa, another row of smaller dots below this to about 
3 / 4 ; a jet-black subtriangular transverse mark on base of costa to vein 12; 
a small horizontal black streak just above fold beyond base; a minute 
black streak along base of dorsum ; a transverse series of some four black 
dots : two smaller ones above middle, two larger below ; this series of dots 
strongly outwards-angulate in middle, situated at about 1 / 5 of wing; a 
large cloudy suffused transverse patch along less than middle fifth of 
costa, reaching below to fold, slightly outwards-oblique ; its anterior edge 
somewhat projecting above middle, almost vertical; its posterior edge 
strongly angularly projecting in middle to beyond cell, concave above and 
below r , sometimes with an elongate projection posteriorly just above fold; 
this transverse patch dark grey, irrorated with white, dotted with black; 
this patch including a suffused brown streak along upper part of cell 
above parting vein; posterior projection of patch black, sometimes also 
a large black dot on fold; plical and discal tufts white, posterior third 
browoi or black; costal patch rather small, at 3 / 4 , rounded-triangular or 
subquadrate, slightly inwards-oblique : dark grey more or less irrorated 
with white, dotted with black, two large black dots on costa ; costal patch 
sometimes connected by grey suffusion between veins 9 — 10 with a 
