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whitish-ochreous, tinged pale bronze posteriorly; cilia pale ochreous, 
faintly and sparsely barred with pale bronze, infuscated opposite the apex. 
Tegumen moderate. Uncus rather long, bluntly pointed, uncus pending 
along its basal third, its top porrect. Valva rather short, little narrowed, 
slightly excavate at the top of the sacculus, apex rounded; sacculua 
under 1 / 2 ; harpe, a strong, sclerotized plate, with rounded distal pro- 
jection, and a rising clavate top, inner edge short-haired. Vinculum rather 
pointed. Anellus moderate, about 1 / 2 . Aedoeagus slender, gently curved. 
(Slide no. 897 D, holotype.) 
5 53 mm. Palpus with all segments fuscous-white, coarsely irrorated 
with fuscous. Abdomen whitish, dorsal clothing of bristles more distinctly 
showing through, dark bronze. Fore wing narrower, more bent and 
prominent at 4 / 5 . White, densely and evenly irrorated with dark fuscous, 
except an elongate-ovate white spot on the base of the dorsum, extending 
above to the middle of the base of the wing ; dark markings much obscured 
by the above mentioned irroration, less conspicuous than in the male. A 
moderate suffusion at the base of the costa; a cloudy transverse mark 
on the closing vein; an ill-defined strongly outwards-curved transverse 
fascia from 4 / 5 of the costa, almost connected with the dorsal markings; 
these are the same as in the male but only indicated, strongly suffused, 
mixed with white, and obscured by the dark irroration; dorsum below 
vein lb distinctly paler. Hind wing paler golden-ochreous, becoming 
brighter towards the edge ; cilia pale whitish-ochreous, hardly barred with 
pale tawny, somewhat more distinctly so opposite the apex. 
Ovipositor elongate. Ostium simple, small. Genital ventrite haired, 
upper edge emarginate. Ductus bursae and bursa copulatrix simple. 
(Slide no. 898 D, allotype.) 
Lake Habbema, 2600 — 2800 m, end July — end August, 1938 (holo- 
type, male, allotype, female). Two males, one female. 
Phthonerodes Meyrick, 1890 (fig. 680) 
Phthonerodes Meyrick, 1890, Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Austral., vol. 13, pp. 44—45. 
F letcher, Mem. Agric. Ind., Ent., vol. 11, p. 175, 1929. 
As to the synonymy of this genus, we may refer to what is said above 
with regard to the genus Xylorycta. 
Key to the Papuan species of Phthonerodes 
1. Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 stalked eryptoleuca spec. nov. 
Hind wing with veins 3 and 4 connate 2 
2. Fore wing with dorsal half and margins suffused with grey; spot on base of 
costa ill-defined aristaepennis spec. nov. 
Fore wing silvery -white, not suffused with grey; a jet-black spot on base of 
costa anthracopsara spec. nov. 
