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MICROLEPID OPTERA OP NEW GUINEA 
circular streak from seventh to eighth costal dot, wider and almost vertical 
anteriorly, reaching to below vein 9 ; two interconnected erect pale fuscous 
spots before termen from vein 3 to 8, upper spot smaller, slightly oblique, 
finely anastomosing with eighth costal dot, lower spot vertical; a minute 
pale fuscous transverse streak in apex. Cilia white, a faint median row of 
fuscous points. Hind wing with 3 and 4 connate in male, very closely 
approximated in female; pellucent, shining white; cilia white. 
Tegumen narrowly erect-triangular. Uncus short, terminal projection 
slender, slightly sinuate, not dilated, with 4 — 5 rather weak bristles ; two 
short blunt knobs at base of projection. Hanius sickle-shaped, slender, 
curved upward, upper edge with a short angulate projection halfway 
towards hook; this hook with a short median furcation. Socius absent. 
Gnathos, a rather broad W-shaped band, with outer edge short-dentate. 
Transtilla narrow, straight, membraneous. Valva elongate, costa with a 
median sclerotized ridge; cucullus slender, slightly curved upward, clavate, 
long-bristled, with a patch of modified short bristles below anteriorly; 
sacculus with a strong dentiform basal projection ending in a sharp point, 
a short fold apically ( = harpe) densely covered with strong simple bristles. 
Aedoeagus curved, strongly sclerotized posteriorly, top flattened dorso- 
ventrally, truncate and serrulate. Anellus short. Juxta strong. (Slide 
No. 655 1), holotype). 
Ostium narrow, tubular, dorsally with a membraneous transverse fold, 
with scobinate surface. Seventh segment sclerotized; limen intricate: 
upper rim with three projections, median longest, haired; lateral parts 
strong; lower rim plicate, folds dentate, laterally and dorsally continued 
by a broad smooth fold, with two arms ventrally of this, each ending in 
four large teeth. Ductus bursae short, sclerotized, rather narrow, bursa 
moderate, simple. (Slide No. 656 I), allotype). 
Rattan Camp, 1200 m, February 19, 1939 (holotype, male). Mist Camp, 
1800 m, January 8 — 17, 1939 (allotype, paratype). One male, two females. 
Nearest to 8. subcroceata Meyrick, 1938. 
Schoenotenes croceosema spec. nov. 
xqoueoi; = saffron, nr] /m = a mark 
Schoenotenes subcroceata Diakonoff ( nec Meyrick), 1944, Treubia, hors serie, 
pp. 51—52, fig. 13 (descr., gen. J). 
Distribution: Netherlands Central West New Guinea: Wissel Lakes, 
1800 m. 
Mr. Bradley of the British Museum kindly sent us a photograph of the 
genitalia of the type specimen (male) of Schoenotenes subcroceata Meyrick, 
1938; the study of this photograph proved that the species described by 
us in the above cited paper from the Wissel Lakes and recorded as 
subcroceata, belongs to a distinct species for which we propose the 
above name. 
