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SYNTHERATA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
dust-grey, mixed with yellowish-grey and brownish. In the Himalaya; in Sikkim in places not rare. — In this 
way Watson has founded the genus Solus, chiefly owing to the absence of the cross-vein in both wings. 
9. Genus: Syutlierata Mr. 
Larger than the preceding ones; wings broader, forewing in the £ not so strongly falcate. Already very 
similar to the habitus of an Antheraea where the few species might also be ranged. All the 4 eyespots are small; 
before the centre a strongly notched line, behind the centre a double undulate line. Probably all the forms 
known belong to one species which is closely allied to the Antheraea. 
janetia. S. janetta White (= purpurascens Wkr.) (54 b) is very similar to a small Antheraea , but the <T forewings 
are considerably more pointed. The central eyespot of the forewing is a small, roundish hyaline spot which 
is sometimes darkened by reddish; in the hindwing it is generally absent altogether. In the typical form almost 
the whole fore wing of the $ is covered with dark purple brown, excepting the somewhat lighter marginal area; 
the hindwing in its anal half likewise of that colour, whereas the costal half is yellow, in the $ more golden 
disjuncta. yellow, in the $ more honey-yellow. — In disjuncta Wkr. (= insignis Wkr.) the forewing shows a bright red- 
melvilla. brown tint in the apical portion and around the centre of the costa. - melvilla Ww. has a bright sulphur- 
colour on the wings. The band of the forewing is angular, towards the base dark, the central eyespot is small, 
round, with a hyaline pupil and a double flesh-coloured bordering. x4 broad greyish transverse band inside 
shows a dark rust-brown undulate stripe and it is outside enclosed by a row of similar spots. Hind wing with, 
a very small blind pink ocellus; the greyish transverse band disappears towards the costal margin and is 
similarly bordered as in the forewing. Described from 1 $ from Melville I.; in the habitus similar to Mexican 
lavendera both by the yellow colour and by the small central ocellus. — The species is Australian and the typical 
form is widely distributed on the continent, wherever there are trees. The larva lives on various (also imported) 
foliage trees, to the trunk of which it fastens a mussel-shaped cocoon. Although the form disjuncta has been 
described from Queensland and melvilla from Melville I., yet these forms are not confined to these districts. — 
weymeri. weymeri Maass. (55 Be) differs more from the typical form and was ranged as a species for a long time. In 
the $ the whole basal and marginal areas of the forewing and almost the whole hindwing are golden yellow, 
so that in the forewing only a broad median forked band and in the hindwing a narrower one in the anal half 
are dark brown; the $ is almost quite unicoloured dark brown with a light catenary band before the marginal 
quarters of all the wings and a white central dot in the forewing. Likewise from Australia. 
apicalis. S. apicalis Bouv. ,,Colouring quite uniform, of a brownish grey, distally, from the exterior transverse 
stripe of the forewing, passing over to red; smaller and a little yellowish on the hindwing. The transverse 
stripes are of a deeper, slightly reddish brown, the exterior one of the forewing very broad and deeper than 
the others; fringe red-brown, binder surface of a bright rust-colour, with numerous small grey scales as far as 
the submarginal streak which is indicated by a series of black triangular spots which are prominent on the 
hinclwing, the other transverse stripes are brownish though less distinct, because they are covered by small 
grey scales. Antennae yellowish-red with 32 joints, the twelve last of which are either reduced to a pair of short 
rudimentary branchlets or absent; apical joints hardly 7 or 8 in S. janetta. — Stripes and markings as in the 
latter species, though with the following differences: 1) The exterior transverse streak of the forewing, though 
indented as in janetta , is rectilinear without being curved towards the base in the costal area. 2) The submarginal 
stripe of the forewing is broad, continued on its whole length, slightly bent towards the apex which it almost 
reaches at its costal mouth, whilst it is straight, remote from the apex, incoherent and formed by a series of 
small crescents or spots as in typical janetta. 3) Beneath the wings are without the marginal rays between the 
veins, which are generally found in janetta. 4) The interior transverse stripe of the hindwing is not thin, very 
much notched, in its whole length inwardly withdrawn, to the level of the ocellus, as is the case in janetta ; it 
is almost as broad and thick as the exterior transverse stripe of the forewing, very little indented, touching 
the ocellus and forming a small angle slightly receding as far as before the ocellus. Another remarkable difference: 
the wings are strongly falcate, the apex more projecting, slightly stunted, and the margin of the forewing very 
concave. Expanse: 120 mm.“ — The species is quite unknown to me. The description is entirely different 
from the figure, in which the expanse of the wings is only 95 mm. The patria is stated to be Nomnagihe, at 
an altitude of 2000 ft., in Dutch New Guinea. 
godeffroyi. S. godeffroyi Btlr. represents the very closely allied janetta in New Britain; it may be that dahli Weym. 
daldi. j g p s norma i Above orange-ochreous, the central area of the forewing in the $ fleshy red, the costal margin 
darkened by grey; the ocellus of the forewing is better marked than in the forms of janetta and more distinctly 
ringed. In the notches of the postmedian band of the hindwing olive-grey rhombs are embedded, dahli from 
New Pomerania is said to differ chiefly from godeffroyi in the flesh-coloured area above, the not lighter stripe 
of the ground-colour between the two postmedian notched stripes, and in the border of the eyespots. In 
godeffroyi the inner ring of the ocellus of the forewing is said to be black, the outer ring grey, whereas in dahli 
the inner ring is greyish-brown, the outer one dark brown. In the hindwing of godeffroyi the ocellus is invariably 
somewhat triangular edged with flesh-colour, whilst in dahli it is an oval brown kernel surrounded by an interior 
