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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OP NEW GUINEA 
dark brown dots at 3 / 4 , connected below costa by a subtriangular brown 
spot strigulated with dark brown; top of costal patch inwardly oblique, 
between veins 9 — 10; this patch preceded on costa by two small dark 
dots; a large preterminal patch between veins 3—7, anterior edge bent 
and projecting in middle; this patch light brown, tinged greyish, edged 
and strigulated with dark brown ; two small dark brown dots before apex ; 
terminal edge irrorated with brown, apex edged with dark brown. Cilia 
whitish tinged pale ochreous, an antemedian row of short dark brown 
streaks, base of cilia opposite these tinged light ochreous, costal cilia with 
dark brown bars opposite dots. Hind wing glossy whitish, slightly clouded 
with pale fuscous, apical fourth with faint transverse strigulation, and 
marbled with grey r ; a row of minute faint fuscous dots on terminations of 
veins along terinen and in apex. Cilia sordid whitish. 
Tegumen elongate, strong. Uncus moderate, base elongate-conical, hook 
moderate, apex with a slender spine ventrally and a brush of bristles 
before this dorsally. Soeius, only two bristles. Gnathos short, robust, 
median projections truncate, top broad, with finely dentate edge. Transtilla, 
a slender rod, slightly curved downward. Valva elongate, costa broad, 
cucullus an oblique narrow terminal patch, sacculus 1 / 2 , noth a brush of 
bristles at base, strongly' excavate beyond this brush, with a long terminal 
hook directed downward and bristled at the top, a moderate pad at its 
base covered with fine long bristles. Aedoeagus moderate, without cornuti. 
Anellus with a dilatation at each side. (Slide No. 717 D). 
Lake Habbema, 3250 — 3300 m, July 26, 1938. One specimen. 
Schoenotenes plagiostibus spec. nov. (fig. 450) 
TiXdyioq = oblique, arlfiot; = trail 
? 18 — 19 mm. Head white, thorax isabel- whitish, a round blackish 
median spot, shoulder slightly irrorated with black scales. Palpus white, 
mixed with pale fuscous, terminal segment pale fuscous. Abdomen white. 
Legs white, anterior tibia and tarsus dark greyish-fuscous above, pale- 
ringed. Fore wing elongate, rather narrow, raised scales along veins, tufts 
small. Creamy-white, markings black. Base of costa faintly suffused with 
greyish, base of costal edge dark grey; eleven black dots along costa, 
first dot subquadrate, fourth and fifth approximated, much smaller, 
eighth-tenth larger, subtriangular, slightly suffused, ultimate dot minute, 
all alternating with minute transverse marks; some blackish scales below 
base of costa; an almost vertical row of three slightly elongate-oblique 
dots at about 1 / 4 , first dot just below and beyond second costal dot, forming 
together with it a small transverse mark, third dot on fold, second halfway 
between those; an oblique series of three more black dots: first largest, 
elongate-oblique, at 1 / 3 of wing between upper edge of cell and parting 
vein, third dot small, round, slightly beyond middle of wing just above 
fold, second round, intermediate; a faint small triangular oblique patch 
