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MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
Schoenotenes octosticta Meyrick, 1930 
Schoenotenes octosticta Meyrick, 1930, Exot. Mierol., vol. 3, p. 610. 
Distribution: British New Guinea: Owgarra. 
Iebele Camp, 2250 m, November 25 — 28, 1938. Two females, with fore 
w ing slightly broader, apex more rounded than in male. Hind wing with 
veins 6 and 7 closely approximated towards base. One specimen exactly 
answering the original description, another specimen with traces of pale 
ochreous markings, and with black markings extended: costal dots 
continued by shadowy faint transverse lines, below upper third of wing 
becoming suffused pale ochreous striae; discal spot narrow, crescentic, 
concave above, followed by an oblique series of three small black dots; 
a point and a minute horizontal streak on closing vein; four preterminal 
points connected and encircled by pale ochreous suffusion, forming an 
elongate spindle-shaped transverse patch ; very faint sparse pale ochreous 
retination all over wing, partially obliterate; a faint pale grey suffusion 
on dorsum below end of fold. 
Schoenotenes operosa spec. nov. (fig. 491) 
(J 17 mm. Head sordid white. Antenna pale fuscous, mixed with white. 
Palpus white, median segment with a broad curved subapical transverse 
band of fuscous-grey suffusion, extended along upper edge of that segment 
to its base; terminal segment with an interrupted median greyish trans- 
verse band. Thorax white mixed with greyish. Abdomen white. Legs 
white, anterior leg suffused with dark grey above, articulations with 
white rings. Fore wing roughly scaled along veins which appear raised 
(tufts apparently rubbed); ovate-truncate, elongate, rather broad; costa 
considerably curved anteriorly, little so posteriorly; apex obtusely pointed, 
termen slightly rounded, oblique. White touched with isabel, markings 
fuscous-grey. Base of costal edge suffused with greyish ; about nine costal 
dots, darker than other markings, along anterior 2 / 5 of costa, more or less 
alternating with minute transverse strigulae ; fifth (submedian) costal dot 
largest, elongate, upper edge minutely indent; a moderate elongate- 
rectangular suffused patch in centre of wing, followed by a less defined 
round patch just beyond cell; these markings connected by irregular, 
suffused interrupted oblique fasciae with fourth and fifth costal dots, 
respectively; an irregular rounded spot below seventh costal dot, connected 
with tornus by a narrow, somewhat undulate, slightly outwards-convex 
striga; minute transverse interneural strigulae arranged in two almost 
vertical subterminal series, from ultimate costal dot and from before this, 
respectively, running to lower third of termen; a minute transverse 
strigula in apex. Cilia white. Hind wing and cilia glossy white. 
Tegumen elongate. Uncus slender, with three long pending bristles 
below top at each side. Hamus rather long, with dilated top, hammer- 
