MICROLEPIDOPTERA OP NEW GUINEA 
99 
irregularly ovate, with anterior edge slightly projecting; this patch larger 
and paler than the preceding costal patch, at 4 / 5 , connected posteriorly 
with slender, curved arms of a thick V-shaped spot; this spot just before 
middle of termen, with base to vein 2, connected by a narrow marginal 
streak with tornus; a minute transverse strigula from top of costal patch 
to vein 6, another strigula before apex ; a blackish-fuscous horizontal streak 
in tornus. Cilia creamy-white, with an antemedian row of small dark 
fuscous dots. Hind wing slightly transparent, silky-white, some suffused 
pale fuscous marbling before apex, cilia silky-white. Sometimes discal 
markings less distinct, and the three costal spots, the preterminal spot 
and the plical tuft conspicuously darker than other markings. 
Tegumen elongate-triangular, arms dilated above. Uncus with extremely 
short base, and with a long linear terminal projection, with clavate, 
bristled top. Hamus strong, narrow, dilated at base, gradually narrowed 
posteriorly, straight, only top slightly curved laterad. Anus distinct. 
Socius and gnathos absent. Transtilla strong, trapezoid, upper edge 
slightly excavate in middle, connected with anellus which is very strong, 
elongate-ovate. Valva elongate, costa with an obliquely transverse ridge 
towards base, naked and gradually rounded posteriorly, cucullus not 
separated, a patch of two kinds of bristles: (1) dense, narrow, simple and 
(2) stout, bifid, directed upward anteriorly, downward posteriorly; sacculus 
with a strong triangular sclerotized base, towards apex with a huge clavate 
vertical tooth in middle. Harpe with a deep fold edged above by a row of 
long bristles. Aedoeagus semicircular, sclerotized. Cornuti, three strong 
bristles. (Slide No. 657 D, holotype). 
Mist Camp, 1800 m, January 11, 1939, January 17 — 28, 1939. Lower 
Mist Camp, 1400 — 1600 m, January 13, 1939. Four specimens. 
Schoenotenes petraea spec. nov. 
$ 21 mm. Head whitish, side-tufts suffused with greyish in middle. 
Palpus whitish, median segment suffused with greyish in middle, terminal 
segment fuscous-grey. Thorax whitish, shoulder irrorated with grey. 
(Abdomen broken). Legs: anterior leg infuscated, pale ringed; median leg 
whitish-ochreous, posterior leg snow-white. Fore wing with raised scales 
along veins and with scale-tufts; little dilated, costa gradually curved 
anteriorly, scarcely curved posteriorly; apex subobtuse, termen straight, 
little oblique. Whitish, transversely strigulated and retinate with grey, 
markings grey, edged with blackish. Base of costa suffused with grey, 
dotted with blackish-grey throughout ; basal patch indicated by a blackish 
transverse mark on costa beyond base, by an oblique group of blackish 
scales below this, and by two inwardly oblique greyish patches, irrorated 
with black on and below fold at 1 /, 1 , each with a minute oblique curved 
greyish strigula above; an elongate-ovate grey spot edged with black 
scales on costa before middle, narrowly connected in middle below with 
