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Genus 1. SYNGAMTA. 



Corpus gracile. Frons depressa, brevi-squamosa. Proboscis 

 longa. Palpi brevissimi, compressi, squamosi, non ascendentes, 

 apice truDcati. Palpi maxillares conspicui, erecti, Iseves, apice 

 truncati. Antenna? cylindricae. Abdomen conicum, maris apice 

 subfurcatum. Ala? laeves, nitentes, coneolores, lituris non diversis, 

 inaculis rnagnis semihyalinis ; antica? angusta?, apice acuta?. 



Syngamia, Guen. Belt, et Pyral. 187. 



Body slender. Front depressed, smoothly squamous. Pro- 

 boscis long. Palpi very short, compressed, squamous, not as- 

 cending, unequally truncated at the tips. Maxillary palpi distinct, 

 erect, smooth, truncated at the lips. Antenna? cylindrical, monili- 

 form, or with rings. Abdomen conical, terminated in the male by 

 a silky acute pencil, above which there is a slightly bifid point. 

 Wings smooth, shining, alike in colour and with like markings, 

 with large semihyaline spots. Fore wings narrow, with acute tips. 



1. Syngamia florellalis. 



Mas. Flava ; abdomen ochraceum, fasciis nigro-cyaneis ; alee 

 cuprecs, anticce maculis tribus, postica> duabus luteo-hyu- 

 linis. 



Anania quinqualis (Pyralis vulgaris, Palpita nobilis), Hiibn. 



Samml. Exot. Schmett. iii. 27, 176, f. 351, 352. Verz. Schhi. 



360, 3450. 

 Phalaena-Tinea Florella, Cram. Pap. Exot. iv. 114, pi. 348, f. 4. 

 Syngamia florellalis, Guen. Belt, et Pyral. 187, 118. 



South America. 



a — c. Venezuela. From Mr. Dyson's collection. 

 d. Honduras. From Mr. Dyson's collection, 

 e,/. St. Domingo. From Mr. Tweedie's collection. 

 g. Jamaica. From Mr. Gosses collection. 

 h. ? 



2. Syngamia pepitalis. 



Mas. Nigra; frons, thorax antice pedesque flavi ; abdomen 

 flavum^ fascia apiceque nigris ; alai anticce maculis duabus 

 luteo-flavis , la marginem interiorem attingente, 2a semilunaris 



