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cell streaked with brown ; a broad fuscous brown subterminal 
band ending at tornus, diffused to termen between veins 
7 and 6 and connected with a patch on termen from above 
vein 4 to vein 2 ; cilia with some brown at base beyond the 
patch. Underside white ; fore wing with oblique black 
band from below costa at end of cell to the curved postmedial 
band at submedian fold, confluent with a patch on termen 
from above vein 4 to vein 3 and some black at tornus ; hind 
wing with slight black discoidal lunule, subterminal band 
ending at tornus, and patch at middle of termen. 
Hah. Palestine, 1 q type. Exp. 38 millim. 
Syneda mendozina, n. sp. 
Head and thorax greyish mixed with rufous and a few 
dark scales ; antennae brown ; palpi at base, pectus and legs 
white, the latter irrorated with brown ; the tarsi blackish 
ringed with white ; abdomen white, dorsally tinged with 
rufous and irrorated with brown. Fore wing creamy white 
suffused with rufous, the basal and postmedial areas thickly 
irrorated with dark brown, the terminal area suffused with 
white and slightly irrorated with brown ; slight brown sub- 
basal spots below costa and cell followed by a dark shade ; 
antemedial line double, blackish filled in with red-brown, 
oblique, sinuous ; a dark medial shade, strong and oblique 
to lower angle of cell, then incurved ; reniform faintly defined 
by blackish, narrow ; postmedial line black, bent outwards 
below costa, incurved at discal fold, excurved at vein 4, then 
incurved, an indistinct dark line beyond it diffused at costa ; 
subterminal line whitish tinged with rufous, defined on inner 
side by diffused black-brown and on outer side by brown, 
excurved below vein 7 and at middle and angled inwards at 
discal fold ; a waved dark terminal line forming black points 
at the interspaces. Hind wing white ; a slight brown streak 
above base of inner margin ; the terminal area black -brown 
to submedian fold, its inner edge incurved, followed bv a 
dark line to tornus, the termen white towards apex and with 
oblique patch below vein 3 ; cilia white with some brown 
from above vein 4 to vein 3. Underside white ; fore wing 
with black-brown discoidal bar, the terminal area black- 
brown with white patch at apex and whitish mark at vein 2 ; 
hind wing with more white on termen towards apex. 
$. Head and thorax pale rufous ; fore wing whitish suffused 
gnd irrorated with pale rufous, the markings all rufous and 
ii distinct, the dark shade before the reniform more con- 
spicuous ; hind wing with the white areas tinged with rufous. 
Hah. Argentina, La Pioja (Giacomelli), 1 $, Mendoza 
(baive), 1 <$, 1 $ type. Exp. 34-38 millim. 
