DHASTERIODES. — SYNEDA. 
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Genus DKASTERIODES, nov. 
Type, D. limata, Christ. ( Phothedes ) Rom. Mem. i. p. 135, 
pi. 8. f. 7 (1884) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 224 (1901). 
Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 
2nd joint reaching to about middle of frons and moderately 
scaled, the 3rd short and thickly scaled ; frons with pointed 
corneous process with flattened corneous plate below it ; 
eyes large, round ; antennae of male ciliated ; thorax clothed 
almost entirely with scales, the metathorax with depressed 
crest ; fore tibiae smoothly scaled, the mid and hind tibiae 
slightly fringed with hair above ; abdomen smoothly scaled 
and without crests. Fore wing rather narrow, the apex 
rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 
3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 
10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 
Hind wing with the cell half the length of wing ; veins 3, 4 
from angle ; 5 fully developed from well above angle ; 6, 7 
from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base 
only. 
Genus SYNEDA. 
Type. 
Bolina, Dup. Cat. Meth. Lcp. p. 180 (1845), nec Raf. 
Moll. 1815 cailino, Lef. 
Syneda, Guen. Noct.,iii. p. 71 (1852) grandirena, Haw. 
Aleucanitis, Warr. Seitz. Gr. Selim, pal. 3, p 389 
(1913) cailino , Lef. 
Syneia exquisita, ». sp. 
2. Head and thorax white mixed with some rufous ; 
antennae dark brown ; pectus and legs white, the latter 
tinged with rufous and irrorated with brown, the tarsi brownish 
ringed Avith white ; abdomen Avhite, dorsally tinged with 
rufous and slightly irrorated with dark broAA’n. Fore Aving 
ochreous Avhite irrorated with broAA'n, the postmedial area 
suffused AA’ith red-brown, the terminal area blue-white ; 
slight double broAA’n subbasal spots on costa and median 
nervure ; antemedial line double, black-broAAn filled in Avith 
red -brown , the outer line obliq uely and almost evenly cmwed, 
the inner angled imvards at submedian fold and with diffused 
brown line before it ; a white band beyond the antemedial 
line folloAved by the two oblicpie rufous medial lines A\diich 
are darker at costa ; reniform defined by broA\m and with 
black and Avhite bar before it, some white on its outer edge 
forming dentate marks on veins 4 and 3 ; postmedial line 
black, bent outwards below costa, then obliquely doAvn- 
curved to vein 6, angled outwards at veins 6, 4, 3, then 
retracted with a downwards cmwe to loAver angle of cell, 
then oblique and excurved in submedian interspace, an 
