CASTNIID.E. 



end of the cell, and a broad discal band of streaks pointed at both 

 ends in each interspace, the streaks more or less irro rated with 

 brown in their centres, marginal line brown, cilia greyish white 

 tipped with pale brown. Hind- wings with the basal half dark 

 brown, including an orange discoidal spot, outer half orange, a 

 discal band of largish dark brown spots, abdominal border suffused 

 with brown, marginal line thickly black, cilia greyish white tipped 

 with pale brown. 



Underside, pale bright ochreous tinged with orange colour, streak 

 at end of cell in fore-wings, a duplex longitudinal spot at end of cell 

 in hind-wings, a discal band of short streaks in both wings whitish, 

 four dark brown sub-marginal spots below apex on fore-wings, and 

 a band of six similar but larger sub-marginal spots on hind-wings, 

 marginal line dark brown, cilia greyish white lined with brown at its 

 base and tipped with pale brown. 



Expanse of wings I T % inches. 

 a. North Australia (type). b. New South Wales (2). 



Allied to S. theresa (Double). This species is in the British 

 Museum unnamed. 



707. Synemon obscura. 



Synemon obscura. Westwood : Trans. Linn. Soc., Lond. (2), i. p. 197, 

 pi. 33, f- 9 (1877). 



<? Head, body, and both wings dark dull brown. Fore-wings 

 with a pure white transverse streak at end of cell, a short outwardly 

 curved yellowish band from costa near apex which ends in a small 

 yellowish suffusion the upper part of which extends to the lower end 

 of the white streak, another and similar short yellowish sub-marginal 

 band from costa close to apex. Hind- wings with an ochreous cell 

 spot and a very broad ochreous outer marginal band which occupies 

 nearly one-third of the wing and has in it an indistinct sub-marginal 

 brownish thin band. 



Underside, fore-wings brown from the base to beyond the middle, 

 the outer margin of this space straight, extending from middle of 

 costa to hinder margin near the angle, outer portion of wing ochreous, 

 including a large brown sub-costal spot in the disc, and an indistinct 

 sub-marginal brown shade ; hind-wings brown, with broad ochreous, 

 outer border, including a sub-marginal thin brownish band. 



Expanse of wings I T % inches. 

 a. New Holland (type) (W. C. Hewitson). 



708. Synemon notha. 



Synemon notha. Westwood : Trans. Linn. Soc., Lond. (2), i. p. 197, 

 pi. 33, f. 10 (1877). 



(3 9 Head, body, and fore-wings dark brown. Fore-wings irrorated 

 and smeared in parts with greyish white scales, leaving some dark 

 more or less indistinct transverse bands, more distinct in the females 

 than in the males, a central broad band, a discal short band from 



