360 MONOGRAPH OF THE GENUS SYNTHEMIS^ 



9. (Unique): abdomen 33, hind wing 34 mm. Wings : bases of 

 forewings beautifully saffroned for 5 mm., those of hindwings for 

 3-4 mm. Pterostigma 2 mm., black. Head almost completely 

 •shiny black, yellow frontal spots much smaller than in male. 

 Thorax deep metallic steely-blue, marked as in male. Abdomen 

 (flat and ill-nourished) broader and more cylindrical than in male, 

 marked with smaller and paler spots. Oi-'i;90,>"27ci?' almost obsolete, 

 reduced to a tiny black piojection, similar to that figured for S. 

 cyanitincld. Apj)e7idayes 1*2 mm., black, cylindrical. 



Types: Coll. Tillyar(l,^$(Kuranda, N.Queensland; E. Allen). 



Hab. — Apparently confined to one locality near Kuranda. 

 Very rare; January. 



9. Synthkmis cYA.NiriNcrA Tillyard. (Plate v., fig.7). 



Tillyard, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 1907, p. 7 24. 



The following is an abridged description, for comparisoji with 

 other species : — 



^. Total length 41 mm., ablomen 31 mm., hindwing 26 mm. 



Wings slightly suff'used with Ijrownish, bases .slightly 

 saffroned, a black mark for 2 nun. along subcostal space; ptero- 

 stigma 2 mm., brown; niembranule 3> mm., dull whiiish. Head : 

 e>/es green in living insect, bordered behind with white; vertex 

 dark brown; front deeply cleft, brown, with creamy spots on 

 sides ; clypetis and lahriim brownish ; labium dull brown. 

 Thorax dark chocolate-brown, a pair of short straight ante- 

 humeral stripes, of a pale bluish or creamy colour; sides with a 

 broader lateral stripe enclosing the mesospiracle, and a large 

 patch, low down, of the same colour; notiim brown with creamy 

 scutella; leys black, bases of femora brown. Abdomen 

 slender, rather short, not verj' pinched at 3, 7-10 somewhat 

 enlarged. Colour dark brown shading to black, marked with 

 pale bluish spots as follows — 2, a pair of semicircular spots; 

 auricles creamy; 3-7, a pair of central dorsal spots, oval or sub- 

 oval; 8, a pair of large oval spots; 9, a pair of small round basal 

 spots; 10 variable, marked with cream or pale bluish; 8, under- 

 neath carries a conspicuous bunch of hairs. Appendages; 



