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broadest in middle; costa rather curved along anterior 3 / s , almost straight 
posteriorly; apex pointed, termen straight, oblique. Glossy white, slightly 
and minutely speckled with brownish, markings formed by sparse brownish 
irroration accentuated by a tew dark luscous scales. A small irroration at 
base of costa, a minute costal dot at 1 / 6 ; a narrow slightly outwards- 
oblique transverse fascia, indicated by a small transverse dot on costa 
before middle, and by a short streak across third fourth of wing just 
beyond middle; two approximated suffused and ill-defined dots on 4 / 5 
of costa; a moderate irroration before middle of termen. Cilia white. Hind 
wing white with faint' traces of fuscous speckling; cilia white. 
Ovipositor lobes elongate, simple. Limen, a moderate band, dilated in 
middle so as to form a broad funnel, truncate below. Colhculum, a slender, 
weak funnel. Bursa copulatrix spheroid. Signum, a moderate clavate and 
verrucose body. (Slide No. 959 D, type). 
Sigi Camp, 1500 m, February 24, 1939. One specimen. This is the 
smallest species of Sclioenotenes known to us; it resembles a Diactenis, 
and has a peculiar facies, but according to the genitalia is nearest to the 
preceding species. 
Schoenotenes chrysoconis spec. nov. (fig. 466) 
XQvaoQ = gold, y.ovig = dust 
g 17 mm. Head and thorax pale whitish-ochreous, vertex and tegula 
suffused with light golden-yellowish. Palpus pale fuscous. Abdomen 
ochreous-whitish. Legs whitish, anterior tibia and tarsus blackish-fuscous, 
light-ringed. Fore wing with raised scales along veins, elongate-triangular, 
dilated; costa curved towards extremities, almost straight in middle; apex 
subacute, termen faintly sinuate above, gradually rounded beneath, 
oblique. Pale ochreous-whitish, suffused with light yeHowish-ochreous and 
scattered with scales of the same colour; markings dark brown. Ochreous- 
yellowish suffusion, more distinct along costa, fainter on and beyond cell 
and along fold ; a small triangular dot on costa beyond base, followed by 
a minute longitudinal marginal mark; two small transverse streaks at 
about x / 5 to vein 12, united below that vein by a small patch of transverse 
strigulation, indistinctly and obliquely continued across wing to fold by 
groups of minute dark brown scales; a larger elongate dark brown dot 
below fold at about '/ 4 °f wing, and some dark transverse strigulation 
below this dot on dorsum; two small dots on costa, united by a line 
formed by groups of dark brown scales, so as to make a semicircular 
slightly dark brown-centred mark on middle of costa, slightly centred 
with dark brown ; a faint oblique series of dark brown scales beyond and 
parallel to closing vein; another similar series, short, below and parallel 
to fold at '/ 2 ; four rounded somewhat suffused larger costal dots on 
terminations of veins 11 — 8, two anterior dots forming, together with 
some dark brown dotting below costa, a slightly inwardly oblique triangular 
