6 CASTXILDvE. 



line j the spots of the inner series white, of the outer pale yellow, becoming suffused with 

 tawny at apex : thorax blackish ; abdomen brown, with whitish sides and ochreous tip. 

 Primaries below whitish at base, without the white streaks ; outer border suffused with 

 reddish : secondaries with basal half white, external half ferruginous ; spots as above. 

 Expanse of wings 2 inches 8 lines. 

 Pemambuco. 



Walker's description is a compound one, including the C. godartil of Menetries (Cat. 

 Petrop. t. xi. fig. 4). 



SYNEMON, Doubleday. 



Synemon sophia. (Plate III. fig. 6.) 

 Hesperia sophia, White in Grey's Evped. Austral. App. p. 474. fig. 7. 



Primaries brown, clouded with grey, and spotted with blackish brown ; three arched 

 series of spots on the disk, that nearest to apex pure white, the others pale grey ; a white spot 

 at end of cell : secondaries black, with a large orange spot near the base, an interrupted discal 

 orange band, three large submarginal orange spots, and four dots of the same colour round 

 the apical margin ; body brown. Expanse of wings 1 inch 10 lines. 



King George's Sound (Capt. Geo. Grey). 



Synemon beta. (Plate III. fig. 4.) 

 Synemon laeta, Walker, Cut. Lep. Bet. i. p. 36. n. 4 (1S54). 



Primaries grey, clouded with brown ; a large irregular central black spot indistinctly 

 edged with white and bounded externally by a subcostal whitish spot, beyond which is a 

 second black spot, followed by four whitish spots, and succeeded by a white-edged black 

 subapical dash ; two submarginal series of black dots : secondaries orange, with a black 

 subcostal spot, a curved central black band, and an orange-spotted black border; body brown. 

 Iv\ pause of wings 1 inch 10 lines. 



Australia. 



Synemon tlieresa. (Plate III. fig. 5.) 



Synemon theresa, E. Doubhday, Stokes's Discov. Austral. App. i. p. 517, pi. 3. fig, 6. 



Primaries above brown ; a white spot at end of cell ; a discal scries of pale grey streaks, 

 enclosing live black spots beyond thediscoidal cell; outer margin blackish, with an ill-defined 

 Bubmarginal grey line; fringe whity brown internally, greyish brown externally: secondaries 

 tawny brown, a clear tawny spot at end of cell ; a broad clear tawny discal band enclosing a 

 -. i it s of black spots ; margin black, fringe as in primaries. "Win^s below bright ochreous, 

 with cupreous rctleetions ; basal half greyish ; outer margin black ; fringe brown, with central 

 white line: both wings with diffused ferruginous spot at end of cell, and a second better 



