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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
moderate erect-ovate fuscous or blackish-grey patch in tornus parallel to 
edge of wing, somewhat constricted above base, with top rounded; an 
elongate dark fuscous or blackish-grey subterminal mark, exceeding below 
and above veins 4 and 7, respectively, narrowed, posterior edge more or 
less undulate; retination along dorsal edge forming a more or less distinct 
row of blackish dots; terminal edge suffused with dark fuscous or grey, 
this suffusion forming a series of short streaks. Cilia white, basal half with 
a row of black blotches becoming pale ochreous towards base ; pale grey 
cloudy spots on apical third of cilia opposite these blotches; two black 
bars before, one below apex. Hind wing white, posterior half suffused with 
fuscous-grey, with a bronze gloss, marbled with darker grey. Cilia white, 
basal third touched with pale fuscous, an antemedian interrupted pale 
grey line. 
Tegumen elongate. Uncus small, conical, with a long, strongly curved 
hook. Socius small. Gnathos with moderate lateral projections below 
middle, top hooked, smooth. Transtilla narrow, with strong, acutely 
pointed, erect-conical dentate labides. Valva broad, abruptly and obliquely 
narrowed; costa projecting, forming a curved bristled apical body; 
sacculus 1 / 2 , terminal knob concave, with bifid bristles. Aedoeagus slender, 
moderately bent, orifice above with a narrow projection, below with a 
strong thorn. Two bristled pads below transtilla. (Slide No. 725 D, 
holotype). 
Limen forming a strong sclerotized median body which is tubular, with 
a narrow incision ventrally and is dilated above so as to form two 
triangular blades. Ostium wide, line-haired, plicate, two longitudinal folds 
at the sides of limen. Ductus bursae with a colhculum, being an irregularly 
plicate sclerotized piece. Bursa copulatrix simple. Ovipositor lobe narrow, 
dorsal pad larger than ovipositor itself, plicate above and beneath. 
(Slide No. 726 D, allotype). 
Lake Habbema, 3250 — 3300 m, August 20, 1938 (holotype, male), 
August 4, 1938 (allotype, female), August 4 — 28, 1938. Two males, 
seventeen females. 
Schoenotenes dimorpha spec. nov. (figs. 374, 375, 460, 468) 
di'/*OQ<pog = dimorphous 
cj 25 mm. Head with face white, vertex and side tufts isabel-colour. 
Antenna black, scape isabel. Palpus with basal segment whitish, median 
segment black, terminal white. Thorax isabel-whitish, an angulate trans- 
verse median black band, tegula black, sometimes a white lateral patch 
anteriorly. Abdomen blackish-grey, paler towards base. Legs white, 
slightly suffused with pale fuscous, anterior tibia and tarsus black above, 
white-ringed; median tibia and tarsus banded with black, posterior tibia 
with a black longitudinal streak towards base laterally, posterior tarsus 
with black base. Fore wing rather smooth, tufts moderate; elongate- 
subtriangular, costa little curved throughout, apex subacute; termen 
