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REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, vi.* 



Bv A. Jbfferis Turner, M.D., F.E.S. 



Gen. 70. Synzeuxis, nov. 

 crvi^ev^is, a connection. 



Face smooth, not projecting. Tongue well-developed. Palpi 

 rather short, porrect, much thickened with rough scales beneath; 

 terminal joint short. Antenna? in Q dentate (in £ unknown, 

 but probably bipectinate to apex). Thorax with a small, 

 rounded, anterior crest ; beneath slightly hairy. Forewings 

 with 10 and 1 1 arising separately from cell, 10 connected with 9. 

 Hind wings normal. 



An interesting link having the neu ration of Chlenias, but in 

 all other respects resembling Amelora. 



224. Synzeuxis penthina, n.sp. 

 7T£i'#uos, mournful. 



£. 40 mm. Head and thorax fuscous. Palpi 1£; fuscous. 

 Antennae ochreous-whitish. Abdomen ochreous-whitish, with 

 some fuscous irroration. Legs fuscous; tarsi with ochreous- 

 whitish ambulations; posterior pair ochreous-whitish annulated 

 with fuscous. Forewings broadly triangular, costa moderately 

 arched, apex round-pointed, termen bowed, oblique, crenulate; 

 brown-whitish, closely strigulated witli grey, with scattered 

 ochreous-whitish and dark fuscous scales; an ochreous-whitish 

 mark on costa at ~; from this proceeds a faintly darker dentate 

 line, irrorated with ochreous-whitish, to j dorsum; cilia fuscous 

 with whitish apices. Hind wings with termen rounded, crenulate; 

 ochreous whitish, irrorated with grey; a grey discal dot; cilia 

 grey. Underside similar. Type in Coll. Lyell. 



N.S.W.: Hornsby, near Sydney, in April; one specimen. 



* Continued from page 310. 



