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REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN LEPIDOPTERA, III. 



By A. J. Turner, M.D., F.E.S. 



The present instalment consists of supplementary notes on 

 families previously treated of. 



Fam. SYNTOMID^E. 



Syntomis xanthura. 

 Vic. : Sea Lake (Goudie). 



Syntomis annulata. 

 Q. : Gympie, Nanango. 



Syntomis pyrocoma. 

 N.S.W. : Sydney (Lyell). 



Syntomis ph,eochyta,* n.sp. 



$Q. 30-34 mm. Head orange. Antennae black to apices; in 

 £ serrate. Thorax with a few orange scales posteriorly scarcely 

 forming a distinct spot. Abdomen in g with seven, in £ with 

 six orange rings ; tuft in g orange. Forewings with spots 

 obsolete in £; in J very small, ochreous-tinged, semihyaline, 

 sometimes partly obsolete; hind wings with spots small, usually 

 distinctly developed, but either spot may be obsolete. 



Easily distinguishable from S. bicolor and S. phepsalotis, the 

 only species with which it might be confused, by the antennae not 

 being white-tipped. The spots are always small, but vary in 

 development, the tendency to obsolescence being greater in the £. 



Type in Coll. Turner. 



N.Q. : Kuranda, in January and February; a series received 

 from Mr. F. P. Dodd. 



*(jxit,oxvTos, dusky-suffused. 



