37- xoc'Tcii)-^';. 



Genus SYNTHYMIA. 



Tvpe. 



St/nihym!a, Iliibn. Verz. p. 282(1827") fiaa. 



Metopiria, Diip. Cat. Meth. p. 191 (1844) fixa. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi porrect, short, not reaching as fin* as frona 

 and Iringed vfith long hair below ; Irons with trilobate corneous proces's and 

 corneous phite below it ; eyes large, round ; antenntc of male minutely ciliated ; 

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

 fringed with hair ; abdomen with some rough hair at base but wilh(;ut crests. 

 Fore wing with the apex rectangular, the termen evenly curbed and riot crenu- 

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

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

 3, 4 I'rom angle of cell ; 6 obsolesitent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from 

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



A Hind wing orange with brown terminal band fixa. 



15. Hind wind white exsiccala. 



4823. Synthymia fixa. 



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



Kocliia moiiogramma, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., JN'oct. f. SoS (1808); Godt. 



Lep. Fr. v. pi. 51. ff. 4, o ; I\Iill. leoues, pi. 144. If. 12, 14 ; Staud. Cat. 



Lep. pal. p. 240. 



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

 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 ])art of medial area and the 



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Fig. 170. — Synth i/mia fixa, cf . |. 



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

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

 and reniform 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 medi;:l line defining the inner side of brown area and 

 slightly angled outwards on median nervure ; postmeriial line faint, 

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

 yellijwisu-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 



