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DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW AUSTRALIAN 

 LEPIDOPTERA. 



By Oswald B. Lower, F.E.S., Lond. 



SYNTOMIDIDJE. 



Syntomis cremnotherma, n.sp. 



g. 22 mm. Head, thorax, abdomen and palpi orange, abdomen 

 with two or three black segments beneath, anal tuft black. 

 Antennae fuscous, pectinations 1. Legs orange, tibiae and tarsi 

 blackish. Forewings elongate-triangular, considerably dilated 

 posteriorly, costa straight, hindmargin rounded; orange, with 

 black markings; a narrow line along costa to about end of cell, 

 thence becoming confluent with a thick costal streak, continued 

 around apex and along hind margin to anal angle, broader towards 

 apex and narrowed towards anal angle, and with a moderate, 

 somewhat cuneiform, indentation above anal angle ; a thick 

 oblique bar at end of cell ; a thick line along inner margin 

 throughout, emitting at £ a moderately erect band, reaching 

 more than half across wing, much flattened on inner margin, and 

 somewhat curved inwards on upper half; all veins outlined with 

 blackish : cilia blackish. Hindwings with hindmargin rounded; 

 orange; an irregular blackish spot at end of cell; a moderately 

 broad black hindmarginal band, with a well defined obtuse pro- 

 jection near anal angle; veins more or less outlined with blackish; 

 cilia as in forewings. 



Irrapatana, South (Central) Australia; in November. 



Very distinct from any of its Australian congeners. 



