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and edged with dark brown; a narrow oblique slightly curved yellow streak, 
irrorated and edged with dark brown, from upper edge of cell at x / 3 of 
wing length to vein lb before middle of disc, posterior edge with a short 
projection below middle in left wing, twice slightly indent in right; 
preceded by a conspicuous, broad thickened patch of raised brightly 
reddish-fulvous scales; followed by an oblique patch of coarse, pale grey 
retination, from upper edge of cell to above dorsum ; an inwardly oblique 
pair of small yellow dots below and before fifth costal dot, lower larger, 
round, just above cell; a ridge of raised orange scales along transverse 
vein, forming a ring together with a gradually semicircular narrow, yellow, 
dark brown edged, transverse streak beyond preceding; a narrow longi- 
tudinal yellow mark edged and irrorated -with blackish, below and before 
sixth costal dot, narrowed and curved downward posteriorly; this mark 
connected below by a narrow greyish line with a vertical yellow dark-edged 
mark, slightly above dorsum just before tornus; a rather narrow, elongate, 
vertical preterminal patch, slightly outwardly curved, from termen above 
tornus to vein 9, top narrowed. Cilia (imperfect) white, a faint antemedian 
row of blackish points. Hind wing glossy white, touched with yellowish, 
cilia white. 
Tegumen strongly elongate. Uncus long, slender, slightly clavate, and 
bristled terminally. Hamus strong, basal part dilated posteriorly, apical 
part separate, with a moderate projection below, constricted below apex, 
which has the shape of a small flattened spoon. Socius a group of bristles 
at inner side of preceding. Cnathos moderate, twice rectangularly bent, 
arms and transverse part sinuate. Transtilla absent. Valva narrowed, 
concave, sacculus dilated and strongly bristled posteriorly, bristles simple. 
Aedoeagus broad, curved. Cornutus, a single spine. (Slide No. 699 D). 
Sigi Camp, 1500 m, February 24, 1939. One specimen. Distinct by 
colouring. Belongs to the S. subcroceata group. 
Schoenotenes sufflava spec. nov. 
22 mm. Head and thorax dirty whitish-grey. Palpus whitish, median 
segment with an oblique median greyish suffusion, fringe above mixed 
with greyish-fuscous ; terminal segment greyish-fuscous. (Abdomen broken) . 
Legs whitish, anterior infuscated, pale-ringed. Fore wing white, with 
dense transverse pale greyish-fuscous strigulation; with markings fuscous- 
grey along costa, rather bright light ochrcous narrowly edged with 
blackish-fuscous elsewhere, turning pale greyish-fuscous on dorsum below 
fold. Costa with nine moderate dark fuscous-grey rounded dots; first dot 
larger, slightly mixed with ochreous, and edged anteriorly and below with 
blackish; second dot erect-rectangular, connected below with a moderate 
erect-quadrangular patch, which is ochreous, reaching slightly below 
middle of disc, almost connate below with two other patches: an erect- 
ovate patch obliquely to dorsum beyond base, and a broader rectangular 
