372 socivijix. 



Genus SYNTHYMIA. 



Type. 



Si/nthymia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 282 (1827) fixa. 



Metoptria, Dup. Cat. Meth. p. 191 (1844) fixa. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, short, not reaching as far as frons 

 and fringed with long hair below; Irons with trilobate corneous process and 

 corneous plate below it ; eyes large, round ; antennae of male minutely ciliated ; 

 thorax clothed with hair overlaying scales and without crests; tibiae moderately 

 fringed with hair; abdomen with some rough hair at base but without crests. 

 Fore wing with the apex rectangular, the termen evenly curved and not crenu- 

 late ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 

 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 

 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellnlars ; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



A Hind wing orange with brown terminal band fixa. 



li. Hnid wing white exsiccata. 



4823. Synthymia fixa. 



Xocfuafixa, Fabr. Ent. Syst. iii. 2, p. 46 (1794). 



Koctua monogramma, Hubn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 353 (1808); Godt. 



Lep. Er. v. pi. 51. ff. 4, 5 ; Mill. Icones, pi. 144. ff. 12, 14 ; Staud. Cat. 



Lep. pal. p. 240. 



Head and thorax dark red-brown mixed with olive-oehreous ; 

 pectus, legs, and abdomen olive-ochreous irrorated with brown, the 

 tarsi with slight pale rings. Fore wing olive-ochreous thickly 

 irrorated with red-brown, the outer part of medial area and the 



Fig. 170. — ■ Synthymia fixa, $ , ]. 



terminal area suffused with red-brown ; a faint pale curved anle- 

 medial line slightly defined on each side by red-brown ; orbicular 

 and renit'orm whitish, the former narrow, erect elliptical, the latter 

 narrow, constricted at middle and angled inwards on median 

 nervure, and both with small dark marks in upper and lower parts ; 

 a faint dark medial line defining the inner side of brown area and 

 slightly angled outwards on median nervure ; postmedial line faint, 

 brown, oblique from costa to vein 4, then incurved ; a strong 

 yellowish-white subterminal line, oblique to vein 3, then incurved ; 

 a slight brown terminal line ; cilia with a slight brown line through 

 them. Hind wing deep orange, the base and inner area suffused 

 with brown ; a terminal brown band expanding towards costa and 



