MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
75 
$ 21 — 26 ram. Head and thorax white, the latter with a black suffusion 
in centre, crest black, white laterally. Abdomen whitish, densely irrorated 
with blackish-grey except towards base. Fore wing elongate-subovate; 
costa curved towards extremities, slightly impressed in middle, apex rather 
obtuse. Whitish faintly tinged isabel, markings black. Extreme base of 
costa with a small dot; a broad oblique transverse patch beyond this, with 
posterior half slightly clavate to somewhat below fold; an elongate small 
patch on dorsum before 1 / 4 ; a wedge-shaped oblique transverse streak 
before */ 4 of costa, with acute point not reaching fold, with a slight angulate 
projection in middle of anterior edge, preceded and followed by a dot on 
costa; an elongate mark below and slightly beyond preceding just below 
fold, sometimes connected anteriorly with dorsal streak before 1 / 4 ; an 
irregular transverse oblique fascia from middle of costa to 2 / 3 of dorsum, 
with costal third triangular, marked on edge of wing with a dot of ground 
colour; discal part of fascia Y-shaped or X-shaped; this fascia sometimes 
not reaching dorsum, more or less filled with black suffusion in disc, with 
a long slender projection from posterior edge above base, curved upward 
and almost touching preterminal mark; this mark slender, regularly 
Y-shaped, somewhat outwardly oblique, stalk to termen just above 
tornus, anterior arm often connected above with a small triangular or 
subovate costal patch at 4 / 5 , centred with ground colour ; a dot on costa 
before apex, one-three elongate, vertical marks in tornus, and a row of 
small triangular dots along termen. Cilia white, scattered with a few black 
scales. Hind wing white, touched with ochreous; a row of cloudy dark 
grey marginal dots except in tornus and dorsum, and dark grey marbling 
tending to form transverse strigulation along posterior half. Cilia whitish. 
Limen, an ovate plate, with upper edge excavate, with a W-shaped 
small fold in middle. An oblique fold at each side of ostium dorsally. 
Ductus bursae very narrow, bursa copulatrix simple. Ovipositor lobe 
broad, ovate; a flattened subquadrate dorsal lobe. (Slide No. 731 D, 
allotype). 
Moss Forest Camp, 2800 m, November 16, 1938 (holotype, male), 
October 9 — November 5, 1938 (allotype, female). Sigi Camp, 1500 m, 
February 20, 1939. Three males, five females. 
Schoenotenes teratographa spec. nov. (fig. 467) 
regag = a wonder, ygaipu) — to draw 
g 23 mm. Head pale ochreous. Antenna whitish, ringed with fuscous, 
base dark fuscous, scape pale ochreous mixed with pale fuscous above. 
Palpus pale ochreous, basal segment blackish anteriorly, median segment 
with anterior half densely irrorated with blackish-fuscous. Thorax white, 
suffused with pale ochreous anteriorly, two median blackish-fuscous small 
dots. Abdomen white, anal tuft pale ochreous. Legs pale ochreous, anterior 
tibia and tarsus blackish-fuscous, pale-ringed; median tibia and tarsus 
