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face. Forewings narrow; black with hyaline colourless spots; an. 

 elongate-triangular spot In cell; a larger spot between this and 

 dorsum, extended towards base and tornus; an elongate-oval, un- 

 divided subapical spot; a circular supratornal spot, nearly equally 

 divided; cilia black. Hindwings small, somewhat shrivelled, termen. 

 indented above tornus; black, an irregular orange-yellow basal spot, 

 with a rounded median projection, cilia black. 



N.Q., Evelyn Scrub, near Herberton, in November and December;, 

 two specimens received from Mr. F. P. Dodd. 



Syntomis xanthosoma. 



Amata tunneyi, Roths., Nov. Zool., 1910, p. 431, and 1911,. 

 PI. iii., fig. 44. Hmps., Cat. Lep. Phal. Suppl. i., p. 14,, 

 is a synonym. 



N.W.A., Derby; two examples taken by Mr. W. D. Dodd received 

 from the South Australian Museum. 



Syntomis pactolina. 



Q., Brisbane, in October; one specimen differing from the type 

 in the distal spot of the hindwing being smaller and separated for 

 the most part from proximal spot, confluent only beneath costa. 



Syntomis amoenaria. 



Syntomis amoenaria, Swin., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (7), ix.,. 

 p. 418 (1902). Hmps., I.e., p. 20. 



I have not seen this species. 



N.W.A., Roeburne. 



Syntomis pyrocoma. 



Hampson records this as cingulata, Butl., but that name is pre- 

 occupied in the genus (Weber, 1801). I am not sure that melitospilay. 

 Turn., is more than a local race of this species. 



Syntomis microspila, n. sp. 



(^ 2 29-30 mm. Head orange, with some fuscous scales between 

 antennae. Palpi dark fuscous. Antennae dark fuscous; apices white; 

 In ^ slightly serrate. Thorax dark fuscous, tegulae orange; some- 

 times with a few orange scales at posterior apex. Abdomen dark 

 fuscous, with 7 orange rings in <^, 6 in $ ; tuft dark fuscous, in 2 

 whitish at apex. Legs dark fuscous; anterior tibiae with an orange 

 tuft on under-side. Forewings elongate; dark fuscous, with small 

 dull orange spots tending towards obsolescence; basal and sub-dorsal 

 spots more or less quadrangular; spot in cell subtriangular; sub- 

 apical spot nearly or wholly obsolete; supratornal very small, nearly 

 equally divided; cilia dark fuscous. Hindwings dark fuscous; a 

 moderate or small basal spot, nearly or quite obsolete on costal side 

 of median; a very small undivided distal spot sometimes nearly ob- 

 solete; cilia dark fuscous. 



