MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
77 
Schoenotenes chrysauges spec. nov. (fig. 484) 
XQvaavyrjg = shining with gold 
$ 20 — 23 mm. Head pale ochreous. Palpus light ochreous yellowish, 
partially suffused with dark brown, terminal segment with a brownish 
median ring. Thorax whitish-ochreous, tinged greyish, mixed with dark 
brown, especially anteriorly. Abdomen pale ochreous. Legs light ochreous, 
anterior and median tibia and tarsus blackish -fuscous, light-ringed; 
posterior tibia with fuscous knee, posterior tarsus ringed with fuscous. 
Fore wing moderately broad, elongate-triangular, dilated; costa gradually 
little curved anteriorly and before apex, straight elsewhere, apex rather 
pointed; termen sinuate above, gently rounded beneath, moderately 
oblique. Light golden-yellow with a bright gloss, markings dark brown 
and fulvous, more or less irrorated with rounded small points of ground 
colour and then appearing retinate. Base of costa to beyond 1 / s with five 
closely approximated small blackish -brown dots; a triangular patch of 
lighter and darker brown irroration on base of wing, not reaching dorsum, 
and a small rounded brown spot below two posterior costal dots; a 
conspicuous vertical triangular patch extending along and beyond second 
fourth of dorsum, almost equilateral, with lower half dotted with ground 
colour, with top to upper edge of cell; a blackish point on costa above 
that top; an elongate-ovate moderate patch on middle of costa, with lower 
edge slightly projecting in middle, reaching to upper edge of cell; two 
small costal marks of ground colour in middle of this patch, followed on 
costa by a blackish point; two diamond-shaped, inwardly oblique moderate 
marks, at and beyond L / 4 of costa, respectively, united below costa by an 
inwardly oblique elongate deep brown patch, anteriorly connected by a 
narrow streak with a moderate outwardly oblique dark brown patch 
beyond posterior upper part of cell; an elongate moderate fulvous streak 
along parting vein; lower edge of cell with an elongate patch of regular 
dark brown retination not reaching fold, extending to preceding marking, 
leaving a small ovate spot of ground colour in posterior end of cell; a 
quadrate dark brown costal dot on end of vein 9; a large terminal dark 
brown patch, with anterior edge strongly inwardly oblique, more or less 
serrate or preceded by irroration, running from costa before angle to 
before middle of vein 3, thence rounded, retinate, to tornus; lower half of 
patch dotted with ground colour, which forms a strongly sinuate sub- 
marginal fascia, from above tornus to about vein 6, thence continued by 
isolated specks to apex; this fascia is connected below by some three 
vertical short branches of ground colour with edge of wing; dorsum 
posteriorly with a regular row of Small dark brown dots, more or less 
interconnected above by fine brown retination; often dark markings 
strongly irrorated with ground colour and rather indistinct, especially 
along termen, but triangular dorsal patch always present. Cilia jiale 
whitish-yellow, an antemedian row of dark brown dots. Hind wing with 
