368 MONOGRAPH OF THE GENUS SYNTHEMIS, 



spot; 2, two large spots and auricles; 3, basal half yellow, en- 

 closing a narrow elongated basal oval mark on dorsum, sometimes 

 with a dark apical stem; 4, sometimes with basal half as ia 3, 

 sometimes with a pair of basal triangular spots and a pair of 

 central spots, conjoined; 5-6, a pair of basal spots and a pair of 

 central spots, small; 7, basal spots almost obsolete, central spots 

 round and small; 8, with two very large spots occupying the 

 basal half or more of the segment, and very close together; 9, two 

 large subtriangular basal spots; 10, two smaller roundish spots. 

 Appendages: superior 1 8 mm., black, somewhat forcipate, 

 no spine at bases; inferior nearly as long, broad, truncate, black. 

 (Plate vii., figs.lO« and h). 



<^. Very similar to male, hindwing33 mm.; pterostigma 3 mm., 

 dark brown; wings suffused with pale yellowish-brown. Front 

 witli brown maik in cleft slightly wider, otherwise head and 

 thorax as in male. Abdomen slightly shorter and more cylindri- 

 cal, 1-8 spotted as in male; 9, with smaller spots; 10, very short, 

 black. Underside of 8-10 as figured in Plate vii., fig 23; no ovi- 

 positor, folds of 8 pale yellow, of 9 touched with yellow, rest 

 dark brownish-black. Apjyendages 1 mm., thin, straight, pointed, 

 black; 10 ending beneath in a rounded hairy tubercle with two 

 smaller tubercles, one on each side, beneath it. 



Types: Coll. MacLachlan, (J2('^i^l'-*<^u'"i^®)- 



//rt6. — Southern New South Wales, Victoria November to 

 March. 



It is usually found iu the same localities as M. brevistyla, 

 though always in less abundance. The series described above 

 were taken at Alexandra, Victoria. 



Genus 3. C h o R i s T h e M i s, n.g. 



Membranule absent or quite insignificant; front tjmall; abdo- 

 men slender, cylindrical. Superior appendages of male of medium 

 length, slender, almost straight. Ovipositor of female variable. 

 Larvae similar to these of Si/nthe/nisy s.str., but smaller and of 

 slenderer build; front with a small rectangular projecting plate 

 fringed with small hairs. Type: Synthemis Jlavoterminnta 

 Martin. 



