( 157 ) 



Early stages not, known. 

 Hab. Australiii. 

 One sjjecies. 



124. Tetrachroa edwardsi. 



Macrosila er/wardsi OUiff, I.e. (1890) (Brisbime ; Lower Hunter R., N.S.W.) ; Misk., Pruc. Roy. 



Soc. Queendd. viii. p. 26. n. 43 (1891). 

 Meganoton edwardsi, Kirhij, I.e. n. 18 (1892). 

 *Meganutnn rariegatnm. Rothschild, Iris vii. p. 301. n. 13. t. (i. £. 1 (1894) (Queensland ; — coll. 



Staudinger). 



(? ¥ . Easily recognised by the rufous-red bindwings, wbich are marked with 

 black, yellow and wblte in the basi-abdominal region. 



Uab. Queensland and N.S. Wales. 



In the Tring Museum 1 cj, 2 ? ¥ from Dawson district and Brisbane 

 district, Queensland. 



XXXVIII. SYNOECHA gen. nov.— Typus : marmomta. 



Sphinx, Lucas, Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales (2.) vi. p. 278 (1891). 



cj. Not known. 



¥. Pilifer with bristles; geual process short, obtuse. Palpus very small, 

 inner surface covered with large scales, first segment shorter than second. Tongue 

 short and weak. Antenna thin, filiform, slightly prismatical, with distinctly fas- 

 ciculated ciliae, feebly constricted at the joints, end-segment short. Fore- and 

 midtibiae spiny ; foretibia with long apical thorn, shorter (e.xcl. of thorn) than first 

 tarsal segment ; spurs longer than in Hopliocnema and Dolhinopsis ; pnlvillus and 

 paronycbium present, the ventral loljes of the paronychium rather short. 8C" and 

 R' of hindwing on a long stalk. 



¥ . Vaginal plate much wrinkled transversely ; vagina a rather strongly 

 chitinised cylinder, ending beyond the middle of the vaginal plate, the edge of 

 its mouth incrassate, forming a hall'ring, without processes. 



Larva tapering in front, head narrowed above, horn straight ; green, two thin 

 interrupted lines on back and a broader line at each side, dilated ventrad a little 

 on the abdominal segments, white. — Food-plant : Kremophila mitchelU. 



Chrysalis not known. 



Ilab. Queensland. 



125. Synoecha marmorata (PL XII. f. In, ¥). 



*Sj}hiru inarnwrata Lucas, I.e. (1891) ( — cull. Barnard, now in Mus. Tring). 

 Phlegethuntitui (?) marmorata, Kirby, Nov. ZooL. i. p. 38. n. 44 ( 18114). 



?. Abdominal tergite 1 to 5 with a white mesial spot at apex and a large, 

 oval, cff-amy white jialch at the side, by which the s])ecics can easily be recognised 

 The spines of the foretibia not numerous, but the externo-lateral ones heavy. 



llab. Queensland, Dawson district. 



Only one sjiecinicn known, now in tlie Tring Museum, from the Barnard 

 collection; it is a ¥ , and was bred at Cooraooboolaroo, Dnaringa. Dawson R., on 

 27. xii. lftf<4 ; we have a coloured figure of the larva drawn by Miss Barnard. 



