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edge with shallow excavations: in middle and at the sides, lower edge 
with small triangular projections laterally, dentate in middle. No colliculum. 
Ductus bursae broad, short, one side sclerotized. Bursa copuiatrix small, 
not broader than ductus. Eighth segment forming a wide collar around 
ovipositor, which is cup-shaped, a dorso-median bilobed plate, distal lobe 
small, proximal strongly thickened. (Slide No. 661 D, allotype). 
Lake Habbema, 3250—3300 m, August 26, 1939 (holotype, male), 
October 9, 1939 (allotype, female). Moss Eorest Camp, 2600 — 2800 m, 
October 9 — November 5, 1 938. One male, two females. Allied to S. argy- 
rolemma, and to S. aphrodes, distinct by large size and shape of preterminal 
mark. 
Schoenotenes halirrhothia (Meyrick, 1938) (fig. 486) 
Harmologa halirrhothia Meyrick, 1938, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond., vol. 87, p. 507. 
Distribution: Papua: Mount Tafa, 1800 feet. 
20 mm. Head creamy-white, vertex and tips of side-tufts dark 
greyish-fuscous. Palpus creamy-white, densely suffused with fuscous-grey, 
median segment with upper edge anteriorly, and with lower edge poste- 
riorly dark grey. Thorax creamy-white, centred with dark greyish -fuscous. 
Abdomen pale whitish-ochreous, suffused with grey above. Legs whitish, 
anterior tibia and tarsus blackish, pale-ringed, posterior leg slightly 
touched with ochreous. Fore wing with raised scales along veins and with 
scale-tufts ; elongate-subovate, little dilated : costa gradually curved from 
base to apex, less so posteriorly, apex subobtuse, termen straight, little 
oblique above, rounded beneath. Creamy-white, somewhat paler posteriorly, 
densely retinate and dotted with fuscous, ground colour forming numerous 
rounded patches of different size, markings dark-fuscous. Anterior third 
of wing, except a triangular spot of ground colour at base of wing, suffused 
with dark fuscous, with numerous rounded dots of ground colour; this 
suffusion darkest along costa, especially at its base, and forming a row of 
blackish-fuscous small dots along costa throughout; this suffusion trans- 
gressing in a paler greyish-fuscous suffusion, with an irregular edge, from 
below costa at 1 / 3 , running almost horizontal to about middle of upper edge 
of cell, thence to dorsum before tornus; several longitudinal rows of 
elongate-ovate dots of ground colour, two rows of largest dots from base 
to about middle of wing, just above and slightly below fold, respectively; 
a large tuft of raised scales in fold beyond middle, creamy-white anteriorly, 
blackish-fuscous posteriorly; a row of moderate dots of ground colour 
along dorsal edge; a suffused moderate dark fuscous spot on 1 / 4 of costa; 
central fascia indicated by an ovate-triangular moderate patch on costa 
just before middle, and by a narrow, zigzag fuscous streak from its top 
over upper angle of cell to vein 7, angulate there, to lower angle of cell, 
thence irregularly dilated, little oblique, to tornus ; costal patch moderate, 
