840 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, II., 



Hindwings with spots partly confluent 26. humeralis. 



29. Antennie white-tipped 28. hucacma. 



Antennae not white-tipped 30. 



30. Abdomen with two apical- segments except tuft black 29. paravla. 

 Abdomen with two apical segments not black 31. 



31. Forewings with ochreous scales at extreme base 30. heptaspila. 



Forewings without ochreous scales at extreme base.. 32. 



32. Hindwings with triangular discal spot, tuft of <^ 



black at sides 31. trigoncphora. 



Hindwings with discal spot not triangular, tuft of ^ 



not black at sides 33. 



33. Spots of hindwing confluent 32. aperta. 



Spots of hindwing separate 34. 



34. Wings thinly scaled, without iridescence 33. melitospila. 



Wings densely scaled, with purplish or greenish iri- 

 descence 34:. pyrocoma. 



3. Syntomis xanthosoma. 



Hydrusa xanthosoma, Turn., Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Aust. 1898, p. 93. 

 Syntomiacremnotherma, Low., Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 1900, 

 p.29. 



Head orange-ochreous, without black spot between antennae. 

 Antennae fuscous irrorated with ochreous; in ^ shortly pectinate. 

 Thorax and abdomen orange-ochreous, the latter without black 

 rings. Legs orange-ochreous; tarsi fuscous. Forewings w^ith 

 orange-ochreous opaque spots; intermediate and supplementary 

 spots usually fully developed; a narrow supra-apical spot; an 

 orange streak above cell from base to f . Hindwings with spots 

 large and confluent. 



Type in Coll. Turner. 



Var. a. Intermediate spot wholly obsolete. One 9 in Coll. 

 Lyell. 



N.W.A. : Roeburne, Lennard River (100 miles from Derby; 

 Froggatt). — S.A. : Irrapatana (Lower). 



4. Syntomis chlorometis. 



Hydrusa chlorometis, Meyr., Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 1886, 



p.782. 

 Syntomis chlorometis, Hmps., Cat. Lep. Phal. i. p. 68, pl.ii. f.22. 



