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shaped. Socius, a bristly pad over stalk of hamus. Gnathos W-shaped, 
with dilated and pointed lower angles. Transtilla, a simple curved band. 
Valva narrowed, with furcate bristles, and with a patch of simple longer 
bristles upon a thickened pad; sacculus about 1 / 2 , with a strong triangular 
tooth at base. Aedoeagus rather curved, ending in a strong point, 
denticulate below this. (Slide No. 1001 D). 
Araucaria Camp, 800 m, March 23, 1939. One specimen. According to 
the genitalia nearest to S. arachnodes Diakonofe, from the Wissel Lakes. 
Distinct by discal patches. 
Schoenotenes pachydesma spec. nov. (figs. 471, 481) 
nayvq = thick, derr/.tog = a band 
16 mm <j> 18 — 19 mm. Head, thorax and abdomen in male whitish- 
grey, in female whitish tinged pale ochreous ; with anal tuft shiny whitish, 
a golden spot below; in female thorax slightly mixed with grey. Palpus 
slender, of moderate length, greyish, median segment with whitish apex. 
Thorax and abdomen white. Legs white, anterior tibia and tarsus suffused 
with grey, white-ringed. Fore wing with small ridges of raised scales along 
veins, tufts on fold beyond middle and on transverse vein; elongate- 
subovate, costa considerably curved anteriorly, less curved posteriorly, 
straight in middle; apex subacute, narrower in female; termen straight, 
little oblique in male, faintly sinuate, more oblique in female. Whitish, 
base of costa suffused with blackish, about nine cloudy dots from base to 
apex, alternating with minute points; these dots blackish, becoming grey 
and larger posteriorly; a large transverse band, tolerably vertical, from 
i / 4 of dorsum to below costa, with lower half triangularly dilated; this 
band fuscous-olive, edged by a few black scales, with a subtriangular 
slightly projecting blackish patch on middle of its posterior edge, on 
dorsum light grey, transversely strigulated with darker mouse-grey ; other 
markings pale grey, partially edged with blackish ; a small spot below costa 
before 1 / 3 , connected with dorsum by a straight minute blackish strigula 
of dark fuscous scales; a series of three blotches from costa before r / 2 to 
middle of dorsum, consisting of a round darker grey patch just below costa 
not reaching cell, of a larger subquadrate patch in disc below and slightly 
before the former to below middle of wing, with posterior edge narrowly 
blackish, continued as a fine strigula to dorsum, and of an elongate, 
almost vertical blotch on dorsum beyond preceding and not reaching this, 
with anterior edge mixed with blackish scales; an erect-ovate broad blotch 
just beyond cell, from vein 5 to 8, edged anteriorly with blackish scales, 
and preceded by a large white tuft of raised scales on transverse vein; 
posterior edge of this patch transversely strigulated with fuscous; these 
strigulae forming a narrow vertical streak below, which connects patch 
with a small, erect-ovate patch on dorsum before tornus, reaching above 
to vein 4; costal patch darker grey, represented by a moderate semi- 
