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STNTOMID^. 



Typical aperta=mochlotis has a spot on fore wing between 

 veins 4 and 5 ; abdomen with the bands on two terminal segments 

 obsolescent below. 



Ab. 1. nesothetis: abdomen with the terminal bands not obso- 

 lescent. 



Ab. 2. olinda : fore wing with no spot between veins 4 and 5. 



Ab. 3. recedens : a small form 15-24 millim., the markings pale 

 orange-yellow. 



Bab. N. Guinea ; N. Axjsxkalia, Bathurst and Queen's Islands ; 

 Queensland (J. J. Walker) ; Victoria, Melbourne (J. P. Lucas) ; 

 S. Australia (iJrty^-eiveZZ), type. Ela^p. 34-44 millim. Types foZin^a 

 in Mus. Oxon, nesothetis in Coll. Meyrick. 



Polydamon is said to have come from Cape Colony, but nothing 

 like it is known from S. j^frica; Cramer's figure differs in some 

 respects from the Australian species. 



98. Syntomis anmilata. 



Zygana annulata, Fabr. Syst. Ent. p. 551 (1775) ; Boisd. Mon. Zyg. 



p. 122, pi. 7. f. 8 & pi. 8. f. 2 ; Meyr. P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) i. p. 783 ; 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 101. 

 Hydrusa cingulata, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soo., Zool. xii. p. 352 (1876) ; 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 101. 

 Hydrusa nigriceps, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 352 (1876) ; Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 101. 

 Hydrusa intensa, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 353 (1876) ; Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 101. 

 Hydrusa miepsia, Meyr. P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) i. p. 779 (1886) ; Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 101. 

 Hi/dr«sa jjyrocoma, Meyr. P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) i. p. 780 (1886) ; 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 101. 

 Hydrusa synedra, Meyr. P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) i. p. 780 (1886)- 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. iOl. 

 Hydrusa hesperitis, Meyr. P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) i. p. 781 (1886) • 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 101. 

 Hydrusa phepsaloiis, Meyr. P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) i. p. 784 (1886); 



Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 101. 

 Hydrusa chroma, Swinh. Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. p. 50 (1892). 



Head and tegulae fulvous orange ; palpi, antennas, and a baud 

 between their bases black ; thorax and abdomen black ; metathorax 

 and base of abdomen with orange patches, the latter with six orange 



bands and the extremity 

 orange; wings black shot 

 with metallic blue. Fore 

 wing with rounded orange 

 spots below base and in end 

 of cell ; an oblique wedge- 

 shaped spot below base of 

 vein 2 ; an elongate streak 

 above vein 6, often with a 

 Fig. 33.— Syntomis annulata, J . \. short streak above vein 7 and 



speck below vein 6; two spots 

 between veins 3 and 5. Hind wing with an orange streak in ceU 



