MICROLEPIDOPTERA OP NEW GUINEA 
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of greyish suffusion below middle of costa, acute top reaching cell, with 
one small black marginal dot anteriorly, two posteriorly, sometimes only 
these dots preceptiblc, or these markings altogether obliterate ; sometimes 
a pair of blackish points below costa beyond the last mentioned markings ; 
a narrow vertical, curved and interrupted streak in tornus to vein 4, two 
rounded dots above this: on vein 6 and above vein 9, respectively; some 
ill-defined greyish transverse marks beyond the last mentioned dots, 
sometimes indicating a faint irregular transverse line connected with 
tornal streak ; a conspicuous erect-semiovate transverse dot before termen 
between veins 4- — 6, another narrower dot beyond and parallel to this 
between veins 5 — 8, a pair of narrow transverse strigulae below those, 
marginal; terminal edge narrowly blackish-brown; a minute transverse 
strigula before apex. Cilia creamy-white, an antemedian row of minute 
dark grey points. Hind wing glossy isabel-white, towards apex becoming 
semitransparent, tinged with very pale yellowish. Cilia white, touched with 
pale yellowish. 
Genital segment and ovipositor entirely finely short-haired. Limen 
broad, much dilated in middle, forming two rounded thickened pads. 
Eighth segment with a strong thickened and concave elongate lobe at 
each side, dorsally with a swollen transverse finely scobinate body, and 
a strong smooth dorsal projection, triangularly dilated and truncate above. 
(Slide No. 670 D, holotype). 
Moss Forest Camp, 2600 — 2800 m, October 9 — November 5, 1938 
(holotype, paratype, females). Iebele Camp, 2250 m, November 7, 1938 
(paratypes). Four specimens. 
Schoenotenes velutina spec. nov. (fig. 475) 
18.5 — 20 mm. Head and thorax fight isabel-coloured. Palpus slender, 
moderately long, isabel-colour, median segment abruptly expanded towards 
base, upper edge slightly infuscated, apex whitish. Antenna fuscous-tinged, 
scape creamy. Abdomen silvery-white. Legs white, touched with ochreous, 
anterior tibia and tarsus dark grey above, pale-ringed. Fore wing with 
ridges of raised scales along veins, tufts distinct. Whitish, tinged isabel, 
rather regularly transversely' strigulated and retinate with moderate 
isabel-coloured striae which are partially mixed with sparse greyish- 
fuscous scales. About ten black dots along costa becoming dark blackish- 
fuscous before apex, first dot large, triangular, fourth and sixth much 
smaller and paler than other, seventh-ninth dots alternating with blackish 
points ; four transverse striae, rather distinct and uninterrupted, originating 
from second-eighth costal dots, tolerably parallel, outwardly curved, 
rather oblique, first stria to 1 / 4 , fourth to beyond middle of dorsum; sixth 
stria broader, interrupted above and below middle of disc, rather straight, 
from eighth costal dot at about 3 / 4 of costa, to dorsum before tornus; two 
similar streaks before termen, irregularly interrupted, rather obliquely to 
