SYNEMON. By Dr. E. Strand. 
S. plana Wkr. is in the typical form lighter than our figure ( L c); beneath silver-white with narrow dark plana. 
marginal band and two (forewing) or four (hindwing) dark spots. 32—-33 mm. —- New South Wales (Hunter River). 
S. mopsa Dbl. (9 b) is one of the smallest species (30 mm.) Beneath brown with lighter markings, mopsa. 
the forewing tinged with copper-colour, and with lighter and darker spots. Australia (Adelaide). 
S. nupta Westw. (9 c). a 71 42 mm. Forewing beneath black with two red bands, hindwing beneath nupta. 
black with white and reddish spots. — West or North Australia. 
S. notha Westw. (9 c) is smaller than the preceding species (25—30 mm.) and the under surface of notha. 
both wings is reddish orange with black bands and a white and a black cell-spot. 
S. directa Westw. is one of the largest species of the genus (d 71 48 mm.); both wings are reddish orange- directa. 
coloured beneath, the forewing with two black transverse bands, the hindwing in addition with black basal area. 
Australia, bifasciata form. nov. (1 c, erroneously called monodesma on the plate) chiefly differs in having the bifasciata. 
distal band on the forewing quite as sharply marked and as pure white as the proximal band, and even broader. 
S. obscurella Westw. (= obscura Swinh. nec Tepp.) (9 c). cd 28 mm. The larger basal half of the obscurella. 
underside of the forewing brown, with its distal boundary straight, the apical half oehreous with large brown 
subcostal discal spot; hindwing beneath as above. —• Australia. 
S. leucospila Meyr. 31—42 mm. Is said to be characterized by its white markings; the palpi, which leucospila. 
in most Synemon are unicolorus white, are here brown on the upperside. Forewing lighter and darker 
brown with an antemedian band composed of three dark brown spots posteriorly margined with lighter, a 
dark subcostal spot and two rows of similar spots at or near the distal margin. Hindwing black-brown with 
light yellow discal spot, yellowish white subterminal band, which is commonly broken up into spots, and a 
submarginal row of 7 white spots. Fringes brown with white tips. — Is said to be common at Geraldton in 
Australia and to fly in November. 
S. austera Meyr. 40 mm. Is compared with S. heliopis and brontias ; said to differ from these in austera. 
its larger size, its lighter colouring, the triangular white discal spot on the forewing and the less extended 
orange markings of the hindwing. Forewing light brown, tinged with oehreous, the veins in part darker, a 
grey-whitish longitudinal band and narrower subterminal band. — Occurs at Carnarvon in West Australia in 
October in marshy places. 
S. brontias Meyr. 25—33 mm. Forewing brown with diffuse, round ochre-whitish discal spot, a row brontias. 
of whitish spots almost reaching both margins, and at each side of this row a series of dark spots. Fringes 
of both wings chequered with brown and white. Hindwing dark brown with orange discal spot and broad 
orange marginal band enclosing a dark shade (a 71 ) or dark spots (?). The species is said to differ from 
heliopis in its smaller size, the rounded discal spot of the forewing, the rows of white and dark spots, the 
white-chequered fringes and the dark subterminal spots of the hindwing. — Carnarvon in West Australia, in 
October, in th'e plains. 
S. monodesma Low. (the moth figured 1 c does not represent monodesma but directa bifasciata). d 38 monodesma. 
mm. Forewing deep oehreous brown, slightly iridescent; a white median transverse band from below the. 
middle of the costal margin towards, but not reaching, the anal angle; an indistinct whitish band, only half 
as long, at 4 / 5 the length of the wing. Hindwing black-brown with orange markings: a crescent-shaped band 
at. the end of the cell, another from the costal margin directed towards the anal angle without reaching it, 
and a row of subterminal spots. — West Australia (Mount Darling Range), in November. 
S. pyrrhoptera Low. d 44 mm. Palpi beneath white, above brown. Forewing dark brown sprinkled 
with lighter scales, discal spot large and but little darker than the surrounding area, beyond the middle an 
oblique, light reddish streak, white in the middle, directed towards the anal angle, two white transverse 
subcostal spots, a subterminal row of dark spots. Hindwing scarlet with broad, irregular, black marginal 
band enclosing two spots of the ground-colour. Forewing beneath dark brown with scarlet oblique streak 
and a transverse row of 6 whitish, orange-bordered spots. Hindwing beneath with scarlet discal spot and 
paler spots in the marginal area. The species is said to be especially characterized by the hindwing. — 
Australia (Fraser Range), in October. 
S. obscura Tepp. 33 mm. Is said to be distinguished by the dark ground-colour and blurred markings, obscura. 
of which those on the hindwing are reddish. In the distal half of the forewing three light transverse stripes, in 
the cell a longitudinal stripe. The light markings of the hindwing are said to occur chiefly in the marginal 
area, where they are more or less confluent. A very obscure species. — County of Adelaide, Lyndoch, Barossa. 
S. livida Tepp. d 32 mm. Is said to be pale greyish with blackish streaks along the principal veins livid a. 
and a blackish subterminal line; along this' a row of 5 or 6 black spots. The hindwing with a black streak 
along the median vein, connected with a narrow black transverse streak which runs into the anal angle; 
between this and the distal margin there are 4 blackish spots; otherwise the hindwing is for the most part 
orange. Occurs together with obscura. 
