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the costa, a patch on costa close to apex, and two incomplete bands 

 of short streaks, sub-marginal and marginal close together. Hind- 

 wings bright orange suffused with crimson, in one specimen nearly 

 pure crimson, bands black, one basal, another across the middle, and 

 a marginal band extending all round the wing, more or less diffuse 

 on the abdominal border, and including a row of orange spots on 

 the outer margin. Underside, both wings reddish orange, bands 

 black ; fore-wings with a lower basal streak, a black and a white 

 cell spots, a short discal band from costa near apex, some marginal 

 black streaks with white streaks between them ; hind-wings with 

 cell spots as on fore-wings, central and outer marginal bands, the 

 latter including a row of marginal spots, red in the male, white in 

 the female. 



Expanse of wings <J I inch ? I^y inches. 



a. Albany, Australia (<j ? types) (Brewer). b. Albany (2 6) 



(Brewer). 



Allied to S. fata (Walker). 



709. Synemon directa. 



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

 pi. 33, f. 6 (1877). 



<j Head, body, and fore-wings dark chocolate brown. Fore-wings 

 with a broad pure white straight band beyond the middle from the 

 costa just beyond the centre to the hinder margin near the angle, 

 which it does not reach ; this band is well defined inwardly but is 

 slightly diffuse outwardly in its lower portions, another thinner white 

 band curved outwardly from the costa one-fifth from apex to the 

 third median branch, and between this thin band and the broad 

 band the space is dark and looks as if the two bands enclosed a 

 large dark patch. Hind- wings bright deep black, with a crimson, 

 serpentine, macular band, a few small crimson sub-marginal spots 

 and a broad crimson transverse band at end of cell. Underside, 

 wings reddish ochreous, with black transverse bands ; fore-wings 

 with a broad straight band from costal centre to hinder angle, a 

 discal band from costa one-fourth from apex to the middle of a 

 thinner sub-marginal band ; hind-wings with a black inner mark, 

 a medial distorted band and a sub-marginal band, neither of them 

 reaching the abdominal margin. 

 Expanse of wings 2^ inches. 

 a. Australia (type). 



710. Synemon nupta. 



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

 33, f- 7 (1877). 



$ Head and body brown, abdomen with some reddish suffusions. 

 Fore-wings brown densely suffused in parts with greyish white, 

 leaving places not suffused forming a medial band deeply elbowed 

 outwardly in its centre, a large discal sub-apical patch and a sub- 

 marginal band of spear-shaped spots. Hind-wings bright deep 



