THE ANiYALS 



AND 



MAGAZLNE OF NATURAL HISTORY. 



[SEVENTH SERIES.] 

 No. 89. MAY 1905. 



LVI. — Descriptions of neio Genera and 5/>ec/e5 o/'Syntomidse, 

 Arctiadse, Agaristidse, and Noctuidas. By Sir George F. 

 Hampson, Bart., F.Z.S. 



The following genera and species form a third supplement to 

 the first five volumes of the ' Catalogue of Lepidoptera 

 Pliala3nae in the British Museum ' — the first paper on the 

 subject in the Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 7, vol. viii. 

 pp. 165-186 (1901), and the second in the same series, vol. xi. 

 pp. 337-351 (1903), — and the numbers before the species 

 indicate the position of tlie species in the classification 

 adopted in those volumes. The types are in the British 

 Museum. 



SyntomidaB. (Vol. T.) 



Page 53. Genus Symphlebomis, nov. 

 Type, S. antipolo, Semp. Schmett. Phil. ii. p. 418, pi. liii. fig. 2 (1898). 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, not reaching 

 beyond the frons ; antennae of male ciliated. Fore wing of 

 female witli vein 3 from angle of cell ; 4, 5 strongly stalked ; 

 6 from well below upper angle; 7, 8, and 11 stalked ; 9, 10 

 absent : male with a fold below base of cell ; vein 1 sinuous, 

 2 bent upwards near its base; the lower angle of cell bent up 

 to upper angle^ with the opening of a very large pouch above 

 it. Hind wing with veins 3 and 5 from angle of cell, 4 

 absent, 6, 7 coincident. 



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