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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
Tegumen elongate, strong. Uncus with broad base, a long, narrow 
terminal projection with clavate and bristled top. Hamus long, narrowed, 
slightly curved laterad below top, which is spoon-like. Socius absent. 
Gnathos, a narrow twice bent rod. Transtilla broad, with a semiovate 
dilatation above. Valva elongate-ovate, costa with a strong basal projection, 
from which begins a harpe, being a narrow transverse finely bristled ridge; 
sacculus weak, a row of strong, dentiform bristles posteriorly. Aedoeagus 
short, strongly curved, finely dentate in middle, posterior half flattened 
dorso-ventrally. (Slide No. 716 D). 
Scree Valley Camp, 3800 m, September 16, 1938, One specimen. 
Schoenotenes argyrolemma spec. nov. (figs. 480, 488) 
agyvgog = silvery, Ae/ifia = bark 
$ 19 — 21 mm, $ 21 — 23 mm. Head and thorax white, touched with 
creamy. Palpus rather long, fuscous-grey; median segment above and 
towards apex, white. Abdomen silky-white. Legs white, anterior tibia 
and tarsus blackish, white-ringed. Fore wing rather smooth, raised scale- 
tufts present, first discal small; elongate-subtriangular, costa gradually 
curved anteriorly, somewhat more so in female, hardly curved posteriorly; 
apex subacute, termen faintly sinuate, moderately oblique. Glossy-white, 
markings dull, very pale grey or ochreous-greyish, dark grey and black. 
Base of costal edge black ; a short transverse black mark on costa beyond 
base ; a row of dots from beyond this mark to apex, small, black anteriorly, 
becoming larger, dark grey posteriorly; a narrow dull pale grey, scarcely 
perceptible straight transverse fascia from before 1 / l of costa to 1 / 3 of 
dorsum, obliterate in disc, sometimes entirely absent; this fascia preceded 
by small groups of jet-black scales from below costa to slightly below fold, 
sometimes obliterate; central fascia indicated by a narrow transverse 
streak from third costal dot, not reaching cell, by a rounded patch of pale 
greyish-ochreous suffusion in cell, and by an elongate pale grey suffusion 
beyond middle of dorsum; these markings irrorated with black scales 
in disc wdiich form about four irregularly sinuate transverse lines; often 
obliterate except sparse black scales along lower edge of cell and in fold; 
a rounded moderate pale grey blotch below middle of costal blotch, 
connected by a row of irregular spots of grey suffusion with upper angle 
of cell; slightly inwardly oblique broad band of pale greyish-ochreous 
suffusion connecting posterior half of cell with grey dorsal above mentioned 
suffusion; a few scales on middle of lower edge of cell, and a zigzag black 
line along closing vein, often dissolved in three black points ; costal patch 
triangular, slightly oblique, grey, connecting sixth and seventh costal 
dots; a spot of ground colour between these dots, grey, mixed below 
anteriorly with blackish, reaching to vein 7 ; an elongate vertical pale grey 
blotch on dorsum before tornus; a moderate rounded jet-black spot on 
middle of vein 5, often surmounted or connected with a smaller such spot 
