PTRALID^. 315 



crossed by a slender brown antemedial line, an inwardly-oblique straight postmedial 



line, and a marginal dentated line ; the area bordering the postmedial line slightly 



clouded with cinereous-brown scales ; a slight spot at end of cell : hindwing with a 



slight brown spot at end of the cell ; a brown discal line, which is slightly bent 



inwartl before its lower end, followed by a marginal line ; the discal and submarginal 



area slightly clouded with minute cinereous-brown scales. Front of head, tip and base 



of palpi, and legs white ; fore tibiiB pale brown ; abdomen speckled with brown scales. 



Expanse xV inch. 



Genus SYNCLERA. 



Synclem, Lederer, Pyral. Wien. Ent. Moiiat, vii. p. 444 (1863). 

 Notarcha, Sect. B., Meyrick, Trans. Eut. Soc. Loud. 1884, p. 312. 



Forewing elongated, somewhat triangular; exterior margin obHque, slightly 

 convex ; cell more than half the length ; first subcostal emitted at one-fourth before 

 end of the cell, third bifid, fifth curved upward from the end ; discocellular concave, 

 i\^dials from near the ends ; middle median from angle close to end, lower at one- 

 fourth ; suljmedian nearly straight, with a lower slender recurved vein extending to 

 lialf its length : hindwing short, broad, triangular ; exterior margin slightly convex ; 

 subcostals from the end, upper partly joined to the costal ; cell one-third the length ; 

 discocellular concave, radial from lower end ; two upper medians from end, lower at 

 one-third ; submedian and two internal veins widely separated. Body slender ; abdo- 

 men extending nearly half its length beyond hindwiugs ; anal tuft narrow ; labial 

 palpi broad, obliquely ascending, clothed with fine lax hairy scales, tip minute, 

 obtuse ; maxillary palpi short ; antenna3 setaceous ; legs long, slender, spurs unequal. 

 Type, S. ti-aducalis. 



SYNCLERA MULTILINEALIS. 

 Botijs multiUnealis, Gnenee, Belt, et Pjral. p. 337, pi. 8, Hg. 11 (1854); Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. 



B.M. xviii. p. 661 ; Lederer, Pyral. Wien. Eut. Monat. vii. p. So, pi. 11, fig. 3 (1863). 

 Notarcha mullilinealis, Meyrick, Trans. Ent. Soc. Loud. 1884, p. 312. 



Zebronia salomealis, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xvii. p. 476 (1859) ; id. .xxxiv. p. 1348. 

 Boti/s annuligeralis, Walker, id. xxsiv. p. 1424 (18G5). 



Very pale olivaceous-yellow, opalescent in some lights : forewing with some 

 olive-brown basal spots and streaks, a transverse curved antemedial line, an irregular 

 postmedial denticulated line, and a submarginal denticulated line ; an oval orbicular 

 and reniform mark, and a mark below the cell : hindwing with two irregular discal, 

 and a submarginal denticulated line, a mark at end of the cell, below which is a short 

 streak, a marginal Una and an interciliary line olive-brown. Thorax with olive- 

 brown spots, abdomen with paler bands, and a penultimate black spot ; palpi and 

 legs whitish; palpi and forelegs with brown bands. 

 Expanse tu- to IjV inch. 



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