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MICBOLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
Xenotenes micrastra gen. nov., spec, nov., male. Fig. 493: neuration. Fig. 494: 
head and genitalia. 
Xenotenes micrastra spec. nov. (figs. 493, 494) 
/ ax o6" = small, Aar^g = a star 
19.5 mm. Head, thorax and abdomen sordid whitish touched with 
pale brownish, slightly mixed with greyish-fuscous (much denuded). Palpus 
pale brownish-fuscous, cilia along lower edge, and at apex below, white. 
Legs pale fuscous, anterior darker (denuded). Fore wing roughly scaled 
above, with base strongly constricted and narrow, costa abruptly dilated 
beyond base, rectangularly prominent, straight posteriorly, apex, termen 
and tornns strongly rounded, termen in middle straight, vertical, vein 8 
apparently to apex, veins distinctly raised. Pale ochreous, irrorated with 
pale chestnut-brown, partially slightly strewn with blackish-brown, 
scattered with shining leaden-metallic scales. Basal half (denuded) with 
an indication of dark fuscous or grey dotting along 2 / 3 of costa; a wedge- 
shaped patch of darker chestnut-brown suffusion extending below posterior 
fourth of costa, running parallel to edge of wing, gradually narrowed 
towards tornus, strongly concave anteriorly, reaching edge of wing along 
veins; a series of rounded whitish submarginal interneura.l spots; upper 
third of preceding patch, and an elongate irregular streak above and 
beyond posterior half of cell with a short vertical projection from lower 
edge of cell towards dorsum, formed by blackish -brown irroration ; posterior 
half of dorsum irrorated with brownish; leaden-metallic scales forming 
the following more dense groups: in disc posteriorly, along and above 
posterior third of dorsum, and in a curved series parallel to edge of wing 
along middle of submarginal brown patch. Cilia dull pale brownish, basal 
half darker chestnut-brownish. Hind wing pale whitish- brown, suffused 
