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ANISYNTA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
maheta. 
phigalioi- 
des. 
obruta. 
iacchoides. 
stir on. 
icosia. 
plug alia. 
phlaea. 
cynone. 
sphenose- 
ma. 
paraphaes. 
tillyardi. 
argenteo- 
ornatus. 
T. maheta Hew. (= praxedes Plotz, jacchus Misk. p. p.) (167 h). This species likewise resembles 
above the forms of jacchus, but the spots of the forewing are somewhat differently arranged, and the oiange 
spot in the hindwing represents a small transverse hand which, however, varies a little. But above all the species 
is characterised by the hindwing beneath, where only 4 of the spots, those situate in the hindmarginal half, 
exhibit distinct silvery white centres, whereas the others are only centreless nebulous dots. — In aberrations 
all the spots on the hindwing beneath may be without centres, even indistinct, and the orange band is widened 
on its upper surface: this is ab. phigalioides Waterh. found in Victoria. — On the contrary all the 7 spots on 
the hindwing beneath may exceptionally have silvery centres: ab. obruta ab. nov. — iacchoides Waterh. are 
specimens with a peculiar salmon-coloured under surface; here the silvery centres of the hindwing are also 
augmented (as much as 6) and ail of the same medium size; from the Blue Mountains (New South Wales). —- 
The whole species is distributed from Queensland to Victoria, flying from December till April; in some places 
not rare. 
T. sciron Waterh. <£• Ly. Above similar to a donnysa, beneath like jacchoides, but the spots instead 
of being silvery are here whitish. West Australia; apparently very rare. 
T. icosia Fruhst. From Dorey. Upper surface jet-black, the proximal halves of the wings covered 
with scales of a magnificent metallic light blue lustre, extending on the forewing almost to the centre of the 
wing, whereas on the hindwing they fill up a posteriorly widening triangular area. Cilia of fore wing black, 
only in the anal angle whitish, on the hindwing the whitish parts of the cilia are divided on a fine marginal 
line on both sides of the SM. Under surface: fore wing jet-black with small blue subapical spots arranged 
in two short rows, below which there are two similar dots, as well as two blue fine strigae on the radials. In 
the centre of the wing five more small silvery strigae, two of which are in the cell. Hindwing: in the centre 
a broad yellow area with a reddish periphery, slightly powdered with black, traversed by a broad black submedian 
stripe separating a smaller square hindmarginal area. In the yellow main area there are some small dark blue 
maculae, distally to this area a series of small roundish, somewhat blurred blue spots traverses the submarginal 
part of the wing. Length of fore wing: 20 mm. 
T. phigalia Hew. (= phillyra Misk.) (167 g) chiefly differs from icosia in the hindwing beneath, 
which has a slate-coloured tint, exhibiting instead of the silvery ocelli blind ringlets filled up with the ground¬ 
colour. The upper surface is very much like that of maheta , but the spots on the forewing and hindwing are 
of the same ochreous colour, the band on the hindwing less transverse, more parallel with the margin. Eastern 
Australia, September till March. 
T. phlaea Plotz (167 g) is smaller than ‘phigalia of which it may only be a form; on the forewing 
the spots, which are here of a brighter orange, are united into a curved cliscal spot, and on the hindwing 
the discal spot has the shape of a central disc, not of a band. The under surface differs little from that of phigalia 
in the colouring (it is more reddish) and not at all in the marking. Victoria. 
6. Genus: Anisynta Loiv. 
The 7 following species have been separated from the preceding ones, because they have a blunt, stout 
antennal club, so that Anisynta bears a relationship to Trapezites as Motasingha does to Hesperilla. All the 
species are exclusively Australian. Type: A. cynone Heiv. 
A. cynone Hew. {= gracilis Tepper) (171 d) is the smallest species of the group; above dark brown 
with 5 small pale spots, beneath the hindwing with a dull white antemarginal line, a large similar discal spot 
and 2 smaller ones before and below it. The ground-colour of the wings is yellowish-brown, between the spots 
darker. South Australia and Victoria, in winter (June) and apparently again in December. 
A. sphenosema Meyr. & Low. has an expanse of 34 mm. Upper surface dark brown, towards the base 
with golden lustrous hair, with obsolete, dark ochreous spots. On the under surface the forewing shows a very 
large black wedge-shaped spot the apex of which is turned towards the base and which occupies more than 
5 /« of the forewing. Hindwing beneath ochreous, reddish spots in the cell-end and through the disc. — ab. 
paraphaes Meyr. & Low. differs in its smaller size and the spots above showing through beneath with the large 
wedge-shaped spot. West Australia, in November. 
A. tillyardi Waterh. & Ly. is above entirely like the preceding species, but beneath the hinclwing 
is all over intermixed with whitish diffuse spots, so that already a macular marking is produced similar as in 
argenteo-ornatus (167 e, f). Hitherto only taken in the north-eastern parts of New South Wales, but apparently 
common there; in midsummer. 
A. argenteo-ornatus Heiv. (167 e, f). Forewing with 4 scattered yellow spots of which the one in the 
sub median area is still situate before the centre of the wing. Easily recognisable by the silvery spots on the 
