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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OP NEW GUINEA 
veins 6 and 7 closely approximated towards base; glossy yellowish-whitish, 
posterior half irregularly dotted with grey; cilia yellowish-whitish. 
Limen weak, concave in middle, laterally upper edge sclerotized, lower 
edge with a triangular fold. A strong semiovate finely haired lobe above 
ostium dorsally. Colliculum small, weak. Ductus bursae moderately broad, 
short, lower half with a slightly tortuous cestum, with upper edge 
excavate. Bursa copulatrix small. Ovipositor strong, two rounded, scle- 
rotized, short-haired lobes dorsally. (Slide No. 695 D, holotype). 
Lake Habbema, 3250 — 3300 m, August 17, 1939 (holotype), end July — 
end August, 1938. Moss Forest Camp, five km northeast of Lake Habbema, 
2800 m, October 11 — 17, 1938. Twelve females. Distinct by the glossy 
yellow ground colour. 
Schoenotenes chrysopluta spec. nov. (figs. 461, 469) 
Xgvo6g = gold, nXovzoQ = richness 
c? 20 mm, $ 19 — 22 mm. Head and thorax light yellowish -ochreous in 
male, pale whitish-ochreous in female. Palpus whitish-ochreous or light 
ochreous, slightly mixed with brown, terminal segment more or less 
suffused with greyish. Abdomen white. Legs whitish, anterior tibia and 
tarsus blackish, white-ringed; median tibia and tarsus banded with light 
fuscous; posterior tibia in female with fuscous knee, tarsus palely ringed 
with fuscous. Fore wing elongate-triangular, considerably dilated; costa 
little curved throughout, slightly prominent along third fourth; apex 
subacute, termen hardly sinuate, moderately oblique. Pale whitish- 
ochreous, transversely strigulated and irrorated with light ochreous or 
ochreous-brownish, sometimes touched with olive, markings deep brown. 
Extreme base of costa with a quadrate dot; a narrow sinuate ochreous- 
brownish line from base of costa obliquely to fold; a suffusion of the same 
colour from base along fold, mixed with dark brown in fold beyond base; 
three small triangular or elongate dots on costa beyond preceding; a 
narrow transverse band from second one of these dots, strongly angulate 
on 1 / 3 of fold, to dorsum before 1 / 4 , lower half forming a broader dark brown 
patch, interrupted in male; an elongate somewhat larger patch on x / 4 
of costa; from this originates central fascia which is slightly oblique, 
narrow above, abruptly strongly dilated posteriorly at x / 3 , gradually 
slightly narrowed again towards dorsum ; anterior edge of fascia slightly 
angulate on fold, appearing concave, posterior edge rather suffused; this 
fascia deep brownish-ochreous, mixed with darker brown in disc and in 
fold, edged with deep brown along dorsal margin; fascia followed by a 
moderate cloudy brownish patoli on vein lb, in male altogether paler, less 
extended, partially ill-defined; a series of three approximated small dots 
on costa before middle, median smallest ; from this group of dots originates 
a deep brownish-ochreous streak, strewn with dark brown, triangularly 
dilated on costa, running to upper angle of cell, thence curved upward, 
