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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
brownish-black. A pair of fine transverse marks on base of costa connected 
along base of vein 12 with blackish- brown, followed in male by a pair of 
blackish- brown costal points; in female followed by an oblique series of 
some three blackish-brown points; a larger blackish-brown dot at or 
beyond 1 / i of costa, connected by a straight oblique series of blackish- 
brown dots (somewhat interconnected by brownish suffusion, almost 
obliterate in female) with a rounded large dark-brown spot on dorsum 
beyond middle, almost reaching cell, with upper edge bluntly angulate; 
a semicircular narrow interrupted streak of dark brown irroration, con- 
necting two blackish dots on middle of costa (which are preceded and 
followed by a blackish costal point in female) with a faint greyish-fuscous 
suffusion in cell, which extends to dorsal spot, and is obliterate in female; 
four blackish-brown dots along posterior fourth of costa, first dot largest ; 
in female also two small dark brown dots below posterior fourth of costa 
connected by a rounded spot of faint, pale ochreous suffusion with costa; 
an erect-ovate preterminal patch, base on vein 3, dilated above, top 
acutely narrowed, somewhat curved inwardly, almost to costa : ochreous, 
edged with brown except above ; a few dark brown dots on dorsum before 
tornus; termen with a row of narrow short marginal dark brown streaks 
on veins. Cilia whitish touched with pale ochreous, an antemedian row of 
dark brown points. Hind wing and cilia pale ochreous-whitish. 
Tegumen short, subconical. Uncus moderately long, robust, curved; 
hook bifid, horns somewhat thickened, with a longitudinal row of fine 
bristles above. Socius elongate, slender, pending. Gnathos complicated: 
pending, rectangular, a long thorn below middle of each arm directed 
mediad, a long horn at lower angle, directed laterad, and a moderate 
quadrident blade at base of preceding medianly; arms connected by a 
transverse rod, with a subtriangular lobe in middle. Transtilla absent. 
Valva moderate, costa bristled towards base, cucullus separate, concave 
and curved, spoon-like, covered with bifid flattened bristles, sacculus 
about 2 /g, edge excavate towards base. Aedoeagus with short, angulate 
base, straight posteriorly, abruptly swollen in middle, top rounded. 
Vinculum rather long. (Slide No. 691 I), holotype). 
Female genitalia very similar to those in S. auris'persa spec, nov., but 
with limen more distinct, triangularly dilated laterally. Colliculum smaller, 
cylindrical. Ductus bursae extremely short. Bursa copulatrix smaller. 
Ovipositor broader, lower lobes simple. (Slide No. 690 D, allotype). 
Lake Habbema, 3250 — 3300 m, end July — end August, 1938 (holotype, 
male). Moss Forest Camp, five km northeast of Lake Habbema, 2800 m, 
October 15, 1938 (allotype, female). One male, one female. 
Schoenotenes nanodes spec. nov. (fig. 489) 
vavcodrjg = dwarfish 
$ 9 mm. Head, antenna, palpus, thorax and legs whitish. Abdomen 
whitish, becoming greyish posteriorly. Fore wing rather broad, pointed, 
