SYNEDA. 
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Syneda nichollae, n. sp. 
$. Head and thorax white mixed with dark brown ; 
antennae dark brown ringed with white ; palpi with some 
black at sides of 1st and 2nd joints ; pectus and legs white 
mixed with dark brown, the tarsi black ringed with white ; 
abdomen whitish tinged and irrorated with brown, the ventral 
surface whiter. Fore wing white thickly irrorated with 
dark brown, the terminal area suffused with blue-grey ; an 
oblique red-brown subbasal shade from costa to vein 1 ; a 
red-brown band on the inner side of the blackish antemedial 
line, which is excurved in the cell and above vein 1 ; two 
indistinct oblique sinuous broAvn medial lines ; reniform 
faintly defined by brown and with white and black bar on 
its inner side, narrow, somewhat produced at lower extremity ; 
postmedial line blackish, bent outwards below costa, then 
oblique to vein 6 where it is angled outwards, excurved at 
vein 4, then downcurved and retracted to below angle of 
cell and incurved to inner margin, a reddish brown shade 
beyond it ; subterminal line bluish white faintly defined on 
each side by brown, some dark brown suffusion before it 
towards costa and slight dentate black marks above and below 
vein 7 ; a slight waved dark terminal line with black points 
at the interspaces. Hind wing whitish suffused with brown ; 
a brown discoidal lunule ; a sinuous brown subterminal 
shade ending on termen at vein 1 ; a blackish brown patch 
on termen from above vein 4 to vein 2 and a fine dark terminal 
line ; cilia white tinged with brown. Underside white tinged 
with brown ; both wings with diffused dark discoidal spots ; 
fore wing with the terminal area suffused with brown except 
towards tornus ; hind wing with diffused subterminal line 
and terminal shade from apex to vein 2. 
Hob. Canada, Br. Columbia, Ashnold (Mrs. Nicholl), 3 $ 
type. Exp. 40-42 millim. 
Syneda violescens, n. sp. 
<j>. Head and thorax grey-white tinged with pale red- 
brown ; antennae dark brown ; palpi, pectus and legs white, 
the palpi and legs irrorated with dark brown, the tarsi black- 
brown ringed with w'hite ; abdomen whitish, dorsally suffused 
with red-brown. Fore wing grey-white slightly tinged with 
red-browm ; subbasal line indistinct, brown, from costa to 
submedian fold ; antemedial line very indistinct, double, 
brown, oblique, sinuous ; a brownish striga from middle of 
costa ; reniform indistinctly defined by brown, narrow, a 
brownish striga above it from costa ; postmedial line very 
indistinct, brownish, rather oblique and sinuous to vein 3, 
then incurved and slightly excurved at vein 1 ; subterminal 
