MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
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Schoenotenes agana spec. nov. 
a yavog — lovely 
3 18 mm. Head pale whitish-greyish. Palpus fuscous, basal segment, 
upper edge of median, and tip of terminal segment whitish. Thorax light 
ochreous. (Abdomen missing). Legs whitish, anterior and median tibia and 
tarsus infuscated, light-ringed. Fore wing elongate-subtriangular, rather 
narrow, costa curved anteriorly, straight posteriorly, apex subacute, 
termen almost straight, considerably oblique. Whitish touched with pale 
yellowish, retinate and partially suffused with light ochreous, markings 
dark fuscous. Three subtriangular small dots on base of costa, posterior 
dot continued across wing by a narrow suffused sinuate line of dark 
fuscous irroration before 1 / i of wing, outwardly concave above, straight 
below fold, to vein lb ; base of wing before this line denser suffused with 
light ochreous ; an irregular semicircular small spot of fuscous irroration 
in middle of costa, edged anteriorly and posteriorly with dark fuscous, 
preceded and followed by a point on costa; a transverse somewhat out- 
wardly oblique blotch of light ochreous suffusion, densely irrorated and 
suffused with dark fuscous, in disc running slightly before costal spot, 
reaching from above cell to fold, dilated in cell above parting vein; this 
blotch connected by sparse dark fuscous irroration with 3 / i of dorsum, 
ending with two moderate dorsal dots; four suffused light fuscous dots 
along posterior fourth of costa, and a strongly inwardly oblique patch of 
light ochreous suffusion running from these to posterior end of cell, dilated 
and irrorated with dark fuscous below, edging closing vein posteriorly; a 
faint light ochreous vertical strigida in tornus to below middle of disc; 
an erect-ovate preterminal light ochreous patch slightly irrorated with 
fuscous, tolerably parallel to edge of wing, from vein 4 to 7 ; a minute 
transverse light fuscous strigula before apex. Cilia whitish touched with 
ochreous towards base, with an interrupted fuscous antemedian line. Hind 
wing glossy pale whitish-ochreous ; cilia white, touched pale ochreous. 
Moss Forest Camp, five km northeast of Lake Habbema, 2800 m, 
October 25, 1938. One specimen. 
Schoenotenes microphthalma spec. nov. (figs. 459, 465) 
(iixgog = small, orpOa/.jxnQ, = eyo 
g 17 mm, $ 19 mm. Head and thorax pale ochreous. Palpus whitish, 
suffused with grey laterally. Abdomen white in male, pale ochreous in 
female. Legs pale ochreous-white, anterior tibia and tarsus blackish, 
white-ringed ; median tibia with dark grey knee, median tarsus dark grey , 
pale-ringed. Fore wing elongate-subovate, narrow, dilated; costa little 
curved anteriorly, straight in middle, somewhat more curved posteriorly ; 
apex rather pointed, termen slightly sinuate, oblique. Pale ochreous- 
whitish, transversely strigulated and retinate with light ochreous, markings 
