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a broad dark discoidal bar with the veins just beyond it scarlet ; hindwing with 

 the inner area clothed with scarlet scales and with a black streak above base of 

 inner margin. 



Cape Colony. 



(2) * Synanthedon semirufa. 



t AustrosHia semiruja Feld., Reis. Nov. pi. 82. f. 22 (1874). 



The abdomen is without white bands as figured, the hindwing sometimes 

 has the disk almost hyaline and the black terminal band narrower. 



Cape Colony. 



(3) * Synanthedon aurania. 



t Ceratocorema aurania Druce, A.M.N.B. (7) iv. p. 205 (1899). 

 Ferak. 



(4) * t Synanthedon hypochalcia n. sp. 



(J. Head and thorax red-brown, some rufous between antennae, the neck 

 with yellow ring and the patagia \^-ith yellow hair at extremity ; abdomen dark 

 red-brown tinged with grey, a yellow band on 3rd segment, the anal tuft with 

 some rufous ; frons yellow at sides ; palpi yellow with a few black hairs in front ; 

 pectus and legs yellow, the tibiae banded with black ; ventral surface of abdomen 

 with yellow bands on four basal segments. Forewing hyahne, the veins, margins, 

 and streaks in the interspaces of terminal area black ; the costa with orange 

 scales mixed, and some orange below it towards apex ; the discoidal bar orange 

 with some black scales on it. Hindwing hyaline, the veins and margins narrowly 

 black. Underside of forevs-ing with the costal area, discoidal bar, and the median 

 nervure towards end of cell cupreous ; hindwing with the costa cupreous with 

 some black scales on it. 



$. Abdomen with five yellow bands, the band on 3rd segment broader, the 

 ventral surface with broad yellow bands on each segment ; forewing with some 

 orange-yellow in and beyond upper part of cell and on inner margin. 



Assam, Khasis, type (J, $ in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 22 mill. 



(5) t Synanthedon erythromma n. sp. 



(J. Head, thorax, and abdomen black, the frons and genae white, the neck 

 with white ring, the abdomen with strong white segmental lines on all the 

 segments, the anal tuft fuscous and white ; palpi with the 1st joint and basal half 

 of 2nd joint black and white, the rest of 2nd joint and the 3rd joint white ; 

 fore coxae black and white, the femora white at extremity, the tibiae orange- 

 yellow below, the tarsi orange-yellow ringed with white, the mid tibiae with 

 scarlet hair at middle, the spurs and hair at extremity white, the tarsi ringed 

 with white, the hind tibiae fringed with scarlet hair above mixed with black 

 towards extremity, the spurs and hair below at extremity white, the tarsi with 

 black and scarlet hair above on 1st joint, the tarsi white below. Forewing 

 hyaline, the costal area, veins, and margins black, a scarlet discoidal spot defined 

 by black except below ; some scarlet below the costa towards apex and before 

 the black terminal Une. Hindwing hyaline, the veins and margins narrowly 

 black, the cilia blackish. Underside of forewing with the discoidal spot scarlet, 



