POLLANISUS. — SYNTOMIS. 15 



Pollanisus ? rufiventris. (Plate VI. fig. 7.) 



Procris rufiventris, Walker, Cat. Lep. Uet. i. p. 110. n. 11 (1854). 



Wings purplish brown. Head, thorax, base of abdomen, and anus black ; remaining 

 segments of abdomen reddish orange. Expanse of wings 7 to 9 lines. 

 Swan river, Australia. 



I am rather doubtful as to whether this should not form the type of a new genus, the. 

 pectinations of the antenna? in the male being shorter than in the otber species. 



Mr. Walker gives 4 lines as the measurement of the wings ; but this must be a misprint, 

 for the smallest example in the Museum, when measured from tip to tip of the primaries, 

 expands 6 lines. 



Pollanisus cupreus. (Plate VI. fig. 5.) 



Pollanisus cupreus, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. i. p. 115. n. 3 (1854). 



Primaries metallic copper-colour, the apical area purplish brown ; secondaries dark 

 brown. Head and thorax bright copper- colour ; antennae black ; abdomen blackish. Wings 

 below purplish brown, fringe paler; pectus and frons cupreous. Expanse of wings 10 to 11 

 lines. 



West Australia (Clifton), Swan river (Richardson) . 



NEUR0SYMPL0CA, Wallengren. 

 Neurosynrploca contraria. (Plate VII. fig. 4.) 

 Zygaena contraria, Walker, Cat. Lep. Hit. i. p. 113. n. 18 (1854). 



Primaries semitransparent brown, with six small orange spots placed obliquely in pairs — 

 the first pair at the base connected by a pale testaceous patch ; the second pair in the middle, 

 also connected by a pale band ; the third pair subapical, not connected : secondaries crimson, 

 with a very irregular black border. Body black, with an orange spot on each shoulder. 

 Expanse of wings 11 to 14 lines. 



Natal (Gueinzius). 



A second example of this species was placed by Mr. Walker among the specimen!* 

 referred to Zygeena concinna, which unfortunate error has caused much confusion. Walker's 

 description of the body in Z. concinna is taken from an example of Z. hottcntotta. 



SYNTOMIS, Ochsenheimer. 



Syntomis nostalis. (Plate VI. fig. 11.) 



<$ . Syntomis nostalis, Walker, Cat. Lep. Ilet. i. p. 129. n. 28 (1854). 

 5 . Syntomis simples, Walker, I. c. n. 27 (1854). 



Blue-black ; primaries with five white hyaline dots, one at the base, two in the middle, 

 and two before apex : secondaries with a small white spot on interno-mediau area near the 



