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SYNGAMIA. | 
Syngamia, Guenée, Sp. gén. des Lép. viii. p. 187 (1854) ; Walker, Cat. xvii. p. 333; Lederer, Wien. 
ent. Monats. vii. p. 434, 
This genus is restricted by Guenée and Lederer to two Tropical-American species, 
one of which extends northward to Mexico. 
1. Syngamia florella. 
Tinea florella, Cram, Pap. Exot. iv. p. 114, t. 848. fig. L’. 
Syngamia florellalis, Guen. Sp. gén. des Lép. viii. p. 187°; Walk. Cat. xvii. p. 333°. 
Syngamia florella, Leder. Wien. ent. Monats. vii. p. 485°; Snell. Tijdschr. voor Ent. KVill. p. 253°. 
Anania quinqualis, Hiibn. Zutr. Samml. exot. Schmett. iii. p. 27, figg. 351, 352°; Verz. bek. 
Schmett. p. 360’. 
Hab. Mexico, Orizaba (F. D. G.), Rinconada in Vera Cruz (Schaus), Tierra Colorada 
in Guerrero, Teapa in Tabasco (H. H. Smith); Guatema.a, San Isidro, Zapote, San 
Gerénimo (Champion) ; Honpuras (Dyson *); Cosra Rica, Candelaria Mts. (Underwood), 
Volcan de Irazu 6000 to 7000 feet (Rogers); Panama, Volcan de Chiriqui 2500 to 
3500 feet (Champion), Chiriqui (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger ; Arcé, in mus. D.).—Sovts 
America 24; Cotompta, Rio Magdalena®; VENEZUELA ?; GUIANA, Surinam !; Ecuapor; 
Amazons; Braziu®; ANTILLES, Jamaica °, San Domingo *, Dominica. 
This species shows very little variation, except in the colour of the markings—in 
some specimens they are pale yellow, in others orange-yellow. 
2. Syngamia dilutalis. 
Samea dilutalis, Walk. Cat. xxxiv. p. 1301". 
Botys eoidalis, Feld. & Rogenh. Reise der Novara, Lep. t. 135. fig. 14”. 
Hab. Mexico, Jalapa (M. Trujilio); Honpuras, Limas !.—Cotompia, Bogota ?. 
One specimen from Jalapa, very similar to Walker’s type of Samea dilutalis. 
3. Syngamia galbula. 
Botys galbula, Feld. & Rogenh. Reise der Novara, Lep. t. 185. fig. 20°. 
Hab. Panama (Ribbe, in mus. Staudinger).—Co.omBia, Bogota’; Ecuapor. 
There is a specimen of this species from Chiriqui in Dr. Staudinger’s collection; it 
is slightly paler than Felder and Rogenhofer’s figure. 
DESMIA. 
 Desmia, Westwood, in Guérin’s Mag. Zool. 1832, Ins. t. 2; Guenée, Sp. gén. des Lép. viii. p. 188 
(part.) ; Walker, Cat. xvii. p. 336. 
Westwood founded this genus upon Pyralis funeralis, Hiibn. (= Desmia maculalis, 
Westw.); it is allied to diodes, Guen., from which it differs in the peculiarly-formed 
antenne of the males, 
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