BY A. J. TURNER. 855 



35. Syntomis dyschl^na, n.sp. 



(J9. 28-30 mm. Head dull ochreous. Antenms blackish to 

 apices; in ^ serrate. Thorax with a dull brownish-ochreous 

 posterior spot, and some similarly coloured scales in patagia. 

 Abdomen in ^ with seven, in 9 with six narrow dull brownish- 

 ochreous rings; tuft in ^ dull ochreous in centre, black laterally. 

 Anterior tibial with posterior tuft partly dull ochreous. Fore- 

 wings dull blackish, wholly without iridescence; some ochreous 

 scales at base and beneath costa; spots rather small, pale dull 

 brownish-ochreous. Hindwings with spots small, separate; upper 

 division of discal spot small or obsolete. 



Type in Coll. Turner. 



N.Q. : Magnetic Island near Townsville, in September; three 

 specimens. 



Gen. 3. E r e s s a. 



Eressa, Wlk., Brit. Mus. Cat, i. p. 149; Hmps., Cat. Lep. Phal. i. 



p.ll5. 

 Choromeles, Meyr., Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 1886, p.785. 



Tongue well-developed or small. Palpi short, porrect. An- 

 tennae in (J pectinate or simple. Posterior tibiae with middle 

 spurs absent. Forewings with 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 stalked. Hind- 

 wings with 4 and 7 absent, 3 and 5 widely separate at base. 



Type E. confinis, Wlk., from India. 



An Indo-Malayan genus of nearly thirty known species; the 

 Australian forms are readily divided into two sections. 



1. Hindwings without spots furva. 



Hindwings spotted 2. 



2. Hindwings with basal and discal spots 3. 



Hindwings with basal spot only 4. 



3. Patagia with basal ochreous spot strepsiineris. 



Patagia wholly black geographica. 



4. Face orange megatorna, 



Face black angustipenna. 



