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TORTRICIDAETORTRICINAEI. Adoxopbyes templaDa (Pagenstecher)Tortrix temp/ana Pagenstecher, 1900, Zoologica, 29: 225.Hutuna, x. and xi., 27 ex.; Onegaguga, 28. x. and 26. xi., 20 ; Tingoa, 9-11. xi., 10;Matahenua, 29. xi., I ~; at light.Distribution: N. Australia, New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago and Solomon Is.2. Adoxophyes ioterma MeyrickAdoxophyes ioterma Meyrick, 1910, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. W., 35: 205.Hutuna, x. and xi., 16 ex.; Tingoa, 9-11. xi., 2 ex.; Matahenua, 29. xi., I ex.; at light.Distribution: Queensland and New Guinea.OLETHREUTINAE3. AUohermenias ditrusa sp. n. (Figs. 1,30)o IO mm. Labial pal pus light buff, terminal segment with a small sclerotized protuberanceabove at apex (probably normally hidden by scales). Head light buff stronglyclouded with mouse gray. Antenna grayish light buff, scape light buff. Thorax andtegula fuscous. Fore wing badly rubbed in the type and markings partly obliterated;general coloration grayish fuscous, costa marked with rather indistinct white strigulae,an admixture of fuscous in discal area; cilia missing. Hind wing and ciliafuscous. Legs light buff suffused with fuscous, hind tarsus with fuscous-black annuli.Male genitalia: Fig. 30. The shape of the valva is similar to that of the Papuan speciestenuitexta Diakonoff, to which diJJusa is evidently most nearly related. There areconsiderable differences in the number and arrangement of the setae and marginalteeth on the valvae of the two species. In diffusa there is a dense cluster ofabout 8 or 9 heavy setae present in the inner ventro-Iateral margin of the neck ofthe cucullus which are absent in tenuitexta; and in tenuitexta only three marginalteeth are present on the cucullus, while in difJusa there is a single row of teeth inthe distal margin evenly spaced and extending from near the apex to the innerangle, and a second more compact row grouped irregularly in a more or lessstraight line from the inner angle directed obliquely inward and extending nearlyto the neck of the cucullus.TypeJ: Rennell I., Kasipa Hill, c. 300 ft., 29. x. 1953, at light. Genitalia slide B.M.3101.4. Spilonota indentata sp. n. (Figs. 2, 31-34)d' ~ II mm. Labial palpus with first and second segments cream-buff, suffused or overlaidbeneath and exteriorly with dark fuscous except apex of second segment, whichis narrowly ringed with cartridge buff, terminal segment cartridge buff sometimeswith a weak fuscous suffusion. Crown of head vinaceous-buff, front of head (below89