MICROLEPIDOPTERA OE NEW GUINEA 
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slightly suffused with greyish and brownish; an elongate-ovate small 
patch on 3 / 5 of dorsum, followed by a vertical curved patch before tornus, 
reaching to vein 4; an irregularly pear-shaped preterminal patch, from 
between veins 3—4, with narrow top to posterior portion of vein 7, 
surmounted by a moderate subtriangular dot on vein 8; terminal edge 
with small longitudinal brownish-black streaks on veins. Cilia whitish, 
basal half barred with blackish-brown, tips greyish. Hind wing rather 
dark grey, becoming pale greyish-white towards base, dark grey towards 
apex; cilia whitish, an antemedian row of blackish dots along costa in 
apex, and along upper half of termen. 
Genital segment membraneous, forming a flattened collar around 
ovipositor, which has moderate, elongate lobes, supported inwardly by a 
narrow strong circular rod. Limen indefinite. Colliculum short, annular. 
Ductus bursae long (bursa copulatrix absent in mount, abdomen being 
strongly damaged by Adephaga. Slide No. 693 D). 
Lake Habbema, 3250 — 3300 m, end .July — end August, 1938. One 
specimen. 
Schoenotenes aurispersa spec. nov. (fig. 462) 
$ 20.5 — 21.5 mm. Head and thorax pale ochreous, slightly suffused with 
light ochreous, the latter with a narrow antemedian transverse brownish 
line, obliterate in middle. Palpus long, sinuate, pale ochreous-whitish, 
median segment suffused or mixed with greyish. Abdomen pale ochreous- 
brownish. Legs pale whitish-ochreous, anterior tibia and tarsus blackish- 
brown above, light-ringed. Fore wing elongate, rather narrow, moderately 
dilated; costa moderately curved anteriorly, straight posteriorly; apex 
rather pointed, termen faintly sinuate, oblique. Pale ochreous-whitish, 
transversely strigulated with strongly sinuate, partially interrupted 
ochreous strigulae, markings brownish-black. Base of costa with a short 
transverse streak clavate below, followed below fold by a series of three 
small round dots parallel to dorsum; a pair of dark grey points on costa 
beyond preceding, followed by an oblique scries of three small round dots 
running to 1 / 3 of fold; an oblique transverse series of brownish-black 
markings from 1 / 4 of costa to dorsum before tornus, suffused with ochreous, 
shaped as follows: a short oblique streak on costa, two round dots just 
above and below upper edge of cell, a large round dot just above fold, 
groups of brownish-black scales below and along fold posteriorly, and a 
fine U-shaped mark on dorsum; an erect-semiovate moderate vertical 
patch on dorsum beyond middle, interrupted in middle, reaching to fold; 
a small round dot on costa before middle, preceded and followed by a 
smaller dot; an oblique short series of irregular small spots from below 
and before the first above mentioned dot, to upper angle of cell, narrowed 
below, suffused with deep ochreous ; a larger triangular dot before 3 / 4 of 
costa; two rounded dots below this dot, filled with deep-ochreous, this 
