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black, bright crimson in the centre, enclosing a short discal black 

 band which runs into the black outer margin before the middle, 

 leaving a crimson sub-apical discal spot. Underside, both wings 

 black ; fore-wings suffused with crimson on the basal half of the 

 costal space, and two short crimson bands from the costa, one just 

 beyond the middle, the other sub-apical ; hind-wings with a white 

 discoidal small spot and a discal transverse row of three spots, 

 the centre one crimson, the others more or less suffused with 

 crimson. 



Expanse of wings ij 8 ^ inches. 

 a. North Australia (type). 



The above four species were in the collection unnamed, and were 

 apparently new species. I described them before I discovered 

 Westwood's Memoir, which does not seem to have been referred 

 to by any author. 



711. Synemon adelaida : n. sp. PL VII. f. 10. 



6 ? Frons, top of head, and thin ring behind the eyes whitish, body 

 and fore-wings greyish brown, lower part of abdomen paler. Fore- 

 wings with whitish veins, a whitish spot at end of cell, a transverse 

 band of three similar spots below it between the veins, a discal 

 incomplete similar band, disjointed in the centre, and in the two 

 male specimens an indistinct sub-marginal similar band. Hind- 

 wings dark blackish brown, with reddish ochreous macular bands, 

 discal and submarginal, and a similarly coloured large spot at the 

 end of the cell, the spot and bands of spots larger in the female than 

 in the males. Underside, fore-wings bright ochreous red with a large 

 blackish suffused basal patch, and a large blackish discal patch, 

 veins near the margin marked with black, marginal line black, cilia 

 grey, interlined and tipped with black ; hind-wings as above, mar- 

 ginal line and cilia as in fore-wings, both wings below in the female 

 are of a greyish colour suffused in parts with ochreous, fofe-wings 

 with the blackish patches as in the male, hind-wings with a large 

 blackish discal patch and a submarginal band of smaller blackish 

 spots, marginal line of both wings black, cilia interlined. 



Expanse of wings i^ inches. 

 a. Adelaide (type 6 ?). b. Adelaide. 



712. Synemon plana. 



Synemon plana. Walker: i. 37 (1854). 



Butler : 111. Typ. Lep. Het., B. M., i. p. 7, pi. 3, f. 7 



(1877)- 

 Boisd. : Lep. Het, i. p. 554 (1875). 



Westwood : Trans. Linn. Soc., Lond. (2), i. p. 194 (1877). 

 Type. Australia, in B. M. 

 a. New South Wales. b* Haut River. 



713. Synemon Ifflta. 



Synemon Iceta (<j). Walker: i. 36 (1854). 



Boisd. : Lep. Het, i. p. 553 (1875). 



