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SYNTOMIS. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
bicolor, bicolor Wlcr. (Ilk) of which it is doubtful whether it belongs to this species, has the wings black-brown 
without any markings. Queensland, rather scarce. 
chromaticn. S. chromatica Turn., distinguished from the other closely allied forms by its large size and the intense’ 
deeper orange colouring of the spots. Queensland, in February and March. 
paradelpha. S. paradelpha Turn., unknown to me, in size approximating a small annulata. Head black, antennae 
with white tips: thorax black, abdomen with 7 (cY) or 6 (?) rings of red-orange. Anal tuft of the same 
colour, black at the sides. Spots almost entirely hyaline, colourless. Basal spot faintly tinged with reddish, 
the spots of cY mostly small, of ? moderately large. Basal and discal spots on hindwing small, in cY quite 
minute, and obsolete above. Found in November by H. Tryon at Killarney (Queensland). Type in the 
Turner Collection. 
magistri. S. magistri Turn. (= aperta Meijr .). Thorax and abdomen as in the preceding form, but the spots 
ochreous, on the forewing often more numerous, those of the hindwing large, touching one another. From 
Bathurst in New South Wales. 
cyanura. S. cyanura Meyr. Head orange, thorax black sprinkled with a few yellow scales, spots on wings semi¬ 
transparent ochreous. Abdomen with only 5 yellow rings, the 3 last segments lilack. From Thursday Island 
hyalota. in Torres Street. — hyalota Meyr. The type of this form is said to have formerly been in the Macleay 
Museum; but 1 could not find it there when, one year after it had been described, 1 looked over the Museum 
together with the Curator Mr. Masters; thus it does not appear to exist any more. Head orange, antennae 
tipped with black, thorax black, abdomen of cY with 7, of ? with 6 rings. Forewings with greenish lustre, 
spots colourless, transparent, those of hindwing small; upper portion of basal spot obsolete, of discal spot 
reduced or likewise obsolete. (Turner). One specimen is said to be in the Brisbane Museum. From Bowen 
(North Queensland). 
The types of the 5 last named Australian species which I do not know in natura, are contained in Australian 
collections, and were most likely already there when I examined the University Collections and the Macleay Museum, but 
were hidden among the long series of S. annulata , aperta , insularin etc. Many types are no longer in existence, as f. i. 
of anepsia Meyr., which formerly was in the Elizabeth-Bay Museum in Sydney and which its author thinks to be different 
from antitheta. As it is two risky to send the types, it would be highly desirable • that good illustrations were made of 
these doubtful forms in Australia, in order to establish clearness about them. 
antitheta. S. antitheta Meyr. (? 11 d). Our figure which was taken from a specimen from Cooktown (Queensland), 
corresponds to the original description, which, however, does not quite coincide with that of Turner’s; since, 
moreover, Hampson adds to his description the remark that when writing it, he did not personally know 
the species, we must consider it for the time being as doubtful. Turner in his Synopsis o f Australian 
paraula. Syntomis widely separates it from paraula Meyr. (= macrophaca Meyr.), refusing to unite the two. The latter 
has below the very elongate apical orange spot another intermediate spot not found in antitheta. — In ab. 
mikroplaga. mikroplaga nom. nov. (= ab. b. Turn) the orange spots, particularly on the hindwing, are smaller than they 
ochreipicta. appear in our figure, in ab. ochreipicta nom. nov. (= ab. b. Turn) (lid) they are larger and less clear, and 
cmespia. in ab. anespia Meyr. (lie) the two spots on the hindwing are broadly conlluescent. Northern Queensland, 
apparently very common in places; paraula is said to be found as far as Sydney in New South Wales, where 
it probably is very scarce since I did not encounter it there. 
sola. S. sala Swinh. from Kina-Balu, Borneo. Black, antennae tipped with white, forehead, collar, an 
oblique stripe at the base of the thorax and abdominal bands ochreous. Abdomen of ? much more ochreous 
with narrow black rings. Spots hyaline; forewing with wedge-shaped spot below the base of the cell, one 
behind it in the submedian interspace, both spots occasionally united and completely filling up said space; 
2 discal spots between veins 3 and 5, one elongate one above 6 near apex, and in ? invariably, in cY not 
infrequently a smaller one in the interspace above. Hindwing with hyaline basal half which is separed by vein 
2 from the discal spots. Costal and outer margins broadly black. 
humeralis. In S. humeralis Btlr. (= olinda Swinh) (lie) the spots resemble those of the preceding forms, but 
are clearer and transparent; head, collar, patagia and metathorax golden-orange, only the middle of thorax 
black-brown. Abdomen with 6 broad orange rings. North-Eastern Australia. 
attenuata. S. attenuata limps, (lid as annulata) is most certainly only an insular form of one of the preceding 
species. Head orange, thorax black-brown, spotted orange behind, patagia orange, abdomen with 7 rings of 
the same colour, anal tuft orange in middle, black at the sides, spots transparent, orange, on hindwing basal 
spot united with discal one. Bathurst, Heywood and Queen Island. 
