MICROLEPIDOPTERA OF NEW GUINEA 
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Spilonota Stephens, 1834 
Spilonota Stephens, 1834, 111. Brit. Ent., Haust., vol. 4, p. 90. Meyrick, Proc. 
Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, vol. 36, pp. 227-228, 1911. Rev. Handb., pp. 528-529, 
1928. Fletcher, Mem. Agrie. Ind., Ent., vol. 11, p. 208, 1929. 
S trepsiceros Meyrick, 1881, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S. Wales, vol. 6, p. 678. 
Strepsicrates Meyrick, 1887, Trans. N. Z. Inst., vol. 20, p. 73. Etc. 
Ivey to the Papuan species of Spilonota 
1. Light ochreous-olive; a glossy whitish circular mark before tornus, deeply 
indent below selene spec. nov. 
Not thus 2 
2. Reddish-ferruginous; transverse markings conspicuous, olive-whitish 
pyrochlora spec. nov. 
Not thus 3 
3. A longitudinal submedian blackish streak from base, dorsum whitish . . . 
stichoceros Meyrick 
No such streak 4 
4. Pale fuscous, suffused with darker, light markings ill-defined 
lobata spec. nov. 
Not thus semicanella Walker 
Spilonota selene spec. nov. (fig. 367) 
oeArjvrj = moon 
^ 21 mm. Head glossy white, touched with pale yellowish. Antenna 
pale ochreous, serrulations dark fuscous below; base of flagellum with a 
blackish-fuscous spot. Palpus whitish touched with pale yellowish; basal 
segment suffused with pale tawny, irrorated with blackish; median 
segment with basal third pale tawny, a broad transverse median dark 
fuscous band extended along lower edge of this segment almost to apex; 
a faint suffused fuscous spot below apex of median segment above ; terminal 
segment slightly irrorated with fuscous in middle. Thorax light tawny- 
ochreous, shoulder suffused with fuscous. Abdomen pale greyisli-ochreous, 
apex grey. Legs tawny-ochreous, anterior and median tibia and tarsus 
blackish-fuscous, tawny-ringed. Fore wing elongate, costa gently curved 
along basal and apical thirds, concave in middle, apex pointed, triangularly 
projecting, termen strongly sinuate, oblicpie. Light golden -tawny-ochreous, 
becoming tawny-olive along lower half posteriorly; markings glossy 
silvery-white and fuscous-black. Basal patch large, along costa to 1 / 4 , 
along dorsum to before middle; edge of patch strongly angularly pro- 
jecting, above outwardly oblique to middle of disc, horizontal to about 
middle of whig, thence inwardly oblique; this basal patch pale tawny- 
ochreous, edge suffused with bright tawny, narrowly suffused above, 
broadly below; a faint row of small fuscous-blackish dots above middle 
of disc from base to angulation, more distinct posteriorly; base of costal 
edge blackish ; anterior half of costa with a row of blackish dots alternating 
with minute transverse strigulae, largest dot on edge of basal patch; two 
approximated blackish dots before middle of costa, connected by fuscous- 
