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MICROLEPID OPTERA OE NEW GUINEA 
almost connected with a large outwardly oblique transverse blotch on 
dorsum beyond middle; anterior edge of this blotch twice moderately 
excavate, upper edge concave, posterior with a deep indentation above; 
a small semiovate spot on costa before 2 / 3 ; a moderate subtriangular costal 
patch along fifth sixth of costa, with anterior edge vertical, concave, 
posterior edge oblique, convex; a small wedge-shaped ivhite costal mark 
in middle; a rounded dot before apex; a large thick N-shaped black mark 
before termed, with upper anterior arm narrow, connected with costal 
patch, upper posterior arm broad, rounded; anterior lower arm of the N 
broad, connected with the preceding dorsal patch, posterior lower arm 
narrow, to termen above tornus; dorsal patches broadly interconnected 
along dorsum; black points on terminations of veins 3 — 8, two last points 
largest. Cilia white, minute longitudinal black streaks opposite veins 7 
and 8, respectively. Hind wing rather dark grey, dotted with whitish along 
termen and in apex ; cilia white from apex to middle or termen, fight grey 
elsewhere. 
Mist Camp, 1800 m, January 8, 1939. One specimen. A very distinct, 
conspicuously marked species. Perhaps allied to S. saliaris Meyrick, 1928, 
from New Ireland. 
Schoenotenes mesotrauma spec. nov. (fig. 476) 
fitaoq = middle, rgav/ua = a wound 
20 mm. Head and thorax whitish-grey, suffused and mixed with 
darker fuscous-grey. (Palpi missing). Abdomen white. Legs whitish, 
anterior tibia and tarsus banded with dark grey. Fore wing elongate- 
subovate, rather broad, discal and plical patches of thick raised scales and 
ridges of raised scales along veins. Costa considerably curved anteriorly, 
straight posteriorly, apex rounded-pointed (just above vein 7); termen 
slightly concave below apex, rounded below. Whitish-grey, partially 
cloudily suffused with darker grey, tinged lilac. A transverse short clavate 
blackish-brown mark on costa beyond base, narrowly edged with yellow 
below; a series of nine black dots along costa, from beyond this mark 
to apex, becoming paler posteriorly, second connected below with a small 
yellow dot mixed with blackish; fourth dot larger, submedian, connected 
below with three inequal quadrate (lots arranged in a circle, yellowish, 
more or less mixed with blackish ; a faint grey suffusion below posterior 
fourth of costa; dorsum below vein lb suffused with grey, dotted with 
ground colour; an oblique yellow streak from beyond base of wing, along 
anterior half of wing, running above and parallel to dorsum; upper edge 
of this streak edged with blackish, with two small patches of bright 
reddish-fulvous scales anteriorly; upper edge of streak a narrow blackish 
projection anteriorly, almost connected with first costal mark; another 
curved projection rising from the middle of upper edge of subdorsal streak 
extended in middle of disc so as to form two rounded yellow dots, irrorated 
