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As to the other surmised synonyms of Phthonerodes, Lichenaula 
Meyeick, 1890, may indeed be its synonym. Whether Clerarcha Meybick, 
1890, and Tymbophora Meybick, 1890, are synonymous with Xylorycta 
will become clear after Mr. Claeke has published his studies. In that case 
Clerarcha has the priority of a few pages. Further names cited as synonyms 
by Fletcheb are Ckalarotorna Meybick, 1890, Illidgea Tubnek, 1897, 
and Neodrepta Tubneb, 1897. 
Key to the Papuan species of Xylorycta 
1. Thorax white; (J, 33 mm atelactis Meyrick 
Thorax white densely mixed with fuscous, top dark fuscous; <J, 43 mm. . . . 
hypatolimnas spec. nov. 
Xylorycta hypatolimnas spec. nov. (figs. 672, 678, 679) 
vTiaroq = high, b/ivdq = living at a lake 
£ 43 mm. Head white, face and side tufts suffused with fuscous. Palpus 
white, basal segment, and median segment except its apex and inside, 
dark fuscous. Thorax white, densely mixed with fuscous, apex dark 
fuscous. Abdomen ochreous-white, dorsum of segments evenly covered 
with fine coppery bristles, showing through the scales. Legs pale whitish 
ochreous, anterior dark fuscous-grey, except the articulations. Fore wing 
long, rather narrow, elongate-subtriangular, dilated, broadest at 4 / 5 , costa 
curved at the base, rather straight in the middle, bent and prominent at 
4 / 5 , obliquely and moderately curved beyond 4 / 5 , apex angularly pointed, 
termen sinuate, moderately oblique. White, irrorated and marked with 
dark fuscous. Basal third of the costa narrowly suffused with dark fuscous, 
this suffusion dilated anteriorly, posterior 2 / 3 of the costa narrowly tinged 
pale ochreous; a rounded large suffused fuscous spot at 4 / 5 of the costa, 
mixed with white, almost connected below posteriorly with a larger round 
suffused patch in the middle of the disc, halfway between the cell and the 
termen, becoming pale and ill-defined anteriorly; an inwardly oblique 
wedge-shaped transverse dark fuscous mark on the closing vein, its lower 
end narrow, slightly curved inwards; a well-defined dark fuscous streak 
along the dorsum from beyond the base to the tornus, limited above by 
the course of vein lb, extending above this vein at 2 / 5 of the wing, so as to 
form a dentiform triangular projection, with acute apex pointing towards 
3 / 4 of the costa and reaching to the lower edge of the cell, posterior edge 
concave above, vertical below, running just above vein lb; a second 
elongate-ovate, suffused projection at 2 / 3 , hardly reaching above vein 2; a 
suffused terminal streak, interrupted in the tornus, narrowed in the apex 
and reaching the costa ; dark speckling denser along the costa and beyond 
the cell, almost absent below the cell ; cilia white, barred with dark fuscous, 
with an interrupted antemedian blackish-fuscous fascia. Hind wing pale 
