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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
termen above tornus, a minute strigula before apex ; a patch of ill-defined 
fuscous-isabel suffusion on cell before middle of wing, a faint greyish 
circular mark just below fifth costal dot not reaching cell; terminal edge 
with a narrow brownish marginal line. Cilia pale creamy-white, an 
antemedian row of small blackish dots. Hind wing and cilia glossy white. 
Tegumen elongate, posterior half rounded. Uncus narrowed above, 
excavate below base of a long terminal projection which is pointed, and 
bears a row of pending strong bristles along edge on each side. Hamus 
long, strong, with a curved, spoon-shaped top. Socius moderate, attached 
to the inner side of hamus. Gnathos strong, trapezoid, transverse bar 
straight, ending in a sharp point on each side. Transtilla absent. Valva 
narrow, not dilated, slightly curved, truncate, cucullus and posterior half 
of saoculus with strong flattened bifid bristles. Aedoeagus moderate, pistol- 
shaped, distal third curved downward. Cornutus, one strong, bent spine. 
(Slide No. 670 D, holotype). 
Top Camp, 2100 m, January 27, 1939 (holotype), January 25, 1939. 
Two specimens. 
Schoenotenes prophanes spec. nov. (fig. 479) 
7tQ0(pavr)Q = conspicuous 
$ 22 mm. Head pale whitish-yellow, face white below. Antenna blackish; 
scape white, mixed with black. Palpus moderate, subascending, roughish 
above ; blackish-fuscous, greyish-white on inner side, along upper edge of 
median segment mixed with whitish-yellow; terminal segment whitish 
towards base and tip. Thorax white, pale yellow anteriorly (denuded 
elsewhere). Abdomen dark tawny -grey, edge of subgenital segment suffused 
with pale ochreous, venter white, ovipositor light brown. Legs white, all 
tibiae and tarsi suffused with dark grey, white-ringed. Pore wing with 
slightly raised scales along terminal veins, tufts small, strongly raised; 
elongate-subtriangular, dilated; costa moderately curved anteriorly, almost 
straight posteriorly; apex little obtuse, termen hardly sinuate, moderately 
oblique. Whitish, evenly suffused with pale yellowish-ochreous, markings 
jet-black. A triangular patch on base of costa, with top truncate, to vein 12, 
continued anteriorly by a narrow streak to fold beyond base; a moderate 
transverse fascia from before 1 / i of costa to J / 3 of dorsum, triangularly 
narrowed as far as J / 3 of disc, thence gradually moderately dilated as far as 
fold, abruptly dilated and almost twice as broad below fold; a somewhat 
elongate, invert-trapezoidal patch on middle of costa, occupying 1 / 4 of its 
length, reaching to upper edge of cell, anterior edge oblique, posterior 
slightly convex; an oblique elongate irregular fascia from below middle of 
upper edge of cell to posterior 1 / 5 of dorsum, with top somewhat narrowed 
and rounded; anterior edge of this fascia with a small blunt projection in 
fold, slightly concave on dorsum; posterior edge of fascia with a deep 
semicircular excavation below middle, reaching beyond middle of the 
