854 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, II., 



tuft blackish. Forewings thinly scaled, somewhat translucent, 

 wholly without iridescence; spots rather large, pale ochreous; 

 small supplementary and intermediate spots; sometimes a small 

 supra-apical spot. Hindwings with discal spot roundish, separate. 



Type in Coll. Turner. 



Q. : Dalby, in April; six specimens. 



34. Syntomis pyrocoma. 



Hydrusa cingulata, Butl., Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. xii. p. 352, 



nom. prceocc. 

 Hydi'usa fyrocoma, Meyr., Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 1886, 



p.780. 

 Hydrusa synedra, Meyr., op. cit, p. 780. 

 Hydrusa hesperitis, Meyr., op. cit. p.781. 

 Hydrusa mochlotis, Meyr., op), cit. p. 782. 



Hydrusa aperta, Turn., Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Aust. 1898, p. 95, nee 

 Wlk. 



Head orange. Antennae black to apices; in ^ serrate. Thorax 

 with well-developed posterior orange spot. Abdomen in $ with 

 seven, in 9 with six orange rings, the last two in ,J and the last 

 in 9 sometimes incompletely developed; tuft in $ orange. Fore- 

 tibise with posterior tuft wholly black or partly ochreous. Fore- 

 wings with pale orange-ochreous spots; intermediate spot obsolete, 

 dot-like, or fairly developed posteriorly; supplementary spot 

 occasionally indicated; rarely a supra-apical dot. Hindwings 

 with basal spot well-developed; discal spot oval; separate, its 

 upper division sometimes very small, rarely obsolete. 



Varying considerably in the development of the wing-spots, 

 which tend to be smaller in the $. 



Type in the Macleay Museum, Sydney. 



N.Q. : Cape York, Geraldton — Q. : Rockhampton, Brisbane, 

 Stradbroke Island, Helidon, Toowoomba, Stanthorpe — N.S.W. : 

 -S.A.:0). 



Dr. Culpin has given me larvae of this species reared from the 

 egg. They are clothed with long hairs, uniformly fuscous, and 

 resemble larvse of a Spilosoma. They were fed on Rumex (a 

 naturalised weed), but are probably polyphagous. 



