SYNTOMIS. / O 



between veins 3 and 5, and a very elongate spot above 0, sometimes 

 with point above 7. 



Nab. Queensland, Cairns. E.vp. 32-42 millim. 



Tiiis species is unknown to me. 



*103. Syntomis cyanura. 



Hydrusa cyanura, Meyr. P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) i. p. 778 (1886) ; Kirby. 

 Cat. He't. p. 101. 



<S . Head orange, with a few blackish scales between antennae, 

 which are black ; thorax black ; metathorax with a few orange 

 scales ; abdomen black, with five dorsal orange bands, the terminal 

 three segments and ventral surface black ; wings black, with pale 

 semihyaline orange spots. Eore wing with subquadrate spot below 

 base of cell ; a wedge-shaped spot in cell ; a diamond-shaped spot 

 below base of vein 2 ; elongate spots between veins 3 and 5 and a 

 very elongate spot above (3. Hind wing with patch below base of 

 cell, deeper orange towards inner margin ; a spot between veins 2 

 and 3 and smaller spots above 3. 



Hah. Torres Straits, Thursday I. Exp. 30 millim. 



This species is unknown to me. 



104. Syntomis hicolor. 



Etichromia bicolor, Wlk. i. 255 (1854) ; Butl. 111. Het. i. p. 19, pi. 9. f. 1 ; 



Meyr. P. Liun. Soc. N. S. W. (2) i. p. 785 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 101. 

 Hydrusa eschatias, Meyr. P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) i. p. 785; Kirby, Cat. 



Het. p. 101 



Black-brown ; head and tegulae dark orange ; antennae black ; 

 abdomen with a basal orange patch and six bands, the anal 

 segment black ; wings without markings. 



Ab. 1. eschatias: abdomen with the anal segment orange except 

 at base ; hind wing with traces of subbasal orange spot. 



Hab. (Queensland (Macgillivray), 4 d $ , type. E.vjj. 29-32 

 millim. 



105. Syntomis atricornis. (Plate III. fig. 2.) 



Asinusca atricornis, Wallengr. Wien. Ent. Mon. vii. p. 139(1863) ; Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 106. 

 Syntomis sirius, Dist. A. M. N. H. (6) xx. p. 15 (1897). 



6 . Black with a greenish tinge. Fore wing with small quad- 

 rate hyaline spot in end of cell and oblique spot below the cell ; 

 two spots between veins 3 and 5 and one above vein (j. Hind wing 

 with orange patch below base of cell and hyaline spot between 

 veins 2 and 3; veins 3 and 5 stalked. 



Hab. Mashonaland, 1 S (Marshall) ; Transvaal, type t sirius 

 in Coll. Distant ; Cape Colony, type in Mus. Stockholm. E.vjj. 22 

 millim. 



