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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OP NEW GUINEA 
mark, reaching below vein 9; vertical curved row of faint, brownish specks 
in tornus to vein 4, a faint transverse preterminal streak between veins 
5 — L parallel to wing edge; upper half of termen minutely edged with 
brown. Cilia yellowish-white, an antemedian row of dark brown blotches. 
Hind wing and cilia glossy yellowish-whitish, faint greyish marbling 
in apex. 
Tegumen elongate, somewhat flattened laterally. Uncus rather narrow, 
angularly bent above base, hook dilated, elongate- ovate, slightly short- 
bristled above. Socius, a minute, rounded knob. Gnathos with strong 
porrect arms, with dilated, flattened tops. Transtilla strong, rising, an 
invert- Y-shaped body with rounded top. Valva rather short; cucullus 
with two club-shaped distal separate pads, bristled posteriorly, each with 
a strong sclerotized point in disc, directed basad ; cucullus concave between 
these; sacculus projecting and bristled in middle above, with a brush of 
modified strong spines terminally. Aedoeagus moderate, pistol-shaped, 
ending in an acute point. Cornuti, a series of strong short spines, stellate 
and thickened at base. (Slide No. 679 D). 
Moss Forest Camp, 2800 m, October 15, 1938. One specimen. 
Schoenotenes chalcitis spec. nov. (fig. 463) 
XahchriQ = coppery 
$ 20 mm. Head light grey mixed with dark grey on vertex. Palpus dark 
grey, inner side light grey. Thorax light ochreous, densely mixed with 
bright ochreous, tinged olive. Abdomen pale ochreous, suffused with brown 
posteriorly. Legs pale ochreous-greyish, anterior tibia and tarsus, and 
median tarsus dark fuscous-grey, pale-ringed; median tibia with fuscous- 
grey basal half. Fore wing elongate-subovate, moderately broad, dilated; 
costa curved towards extremities, straight in middle, apex subacute; 
termen faintly sinuate, oblique. Pale whitish-ochreous, very densely and 
finely retinate with ochreous-olive ; markings dark grey, densely mixed 
and irrorated with brownish-black. Short transverse streaks on base of 
costa, first narrow, second broad, both with a small irroration of blackish 
scales below; an erect-semiovate, oblique, small transverse patch before 
1 / 4 of costa, followed by a larger and more oblique one at 2 / s ; dorsum 
dotted throughout with brownish-black; with a moderate subquadrate 
patch at 1 / i ; upper angles of this patch forming short horns, not reaching 
fold, posterior horn larger, oblique; an outwardly oblique moderate 
transverse patch in middle of disc at 1 / 3 , not reaching edge of cell; posterior 
fourth of costa with four dots; first dot largest, quadrate, continued by 
irregular grey suffusion and blackish dotting, so as to form an oblique, 
wedge-shaped mark to 1 / 3 of vein 7; anterior edge of this mark below 
costa connected by a straight suffused streak with disc below upper edge 
of cell, in middle of wing ; costa between markings finely dotted throughout 
with blackish ; a rounded dot in middle of disc beyond cell ; transverse vein 
