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DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SYNT03IIDAE. 

 By the Hon. WALTER ROTHSCHILD, Ph.D. 



L Callitomis gigas sp. nov. 



S- Antennae simple, pubescent, black-brown; legs black-brown; bead and 

 collar yellow ; thorax pale }'ellowish fuscous ; abdomen pale sulphur-yellow with 



seven dark chocolate-brown rings. Wings brownish fuscous, densely clothed 



with yellow scales ; veins, costal edge, and fringes dark brown ; forewing has a 

 patch below base of cell, the cell, a patch between veins 3 and 4, 4 and 5, and 

 6 and 7 semihyaline pale buff; whole of costal area between costal and subcostal 

 nervures yellow ; hindwing has base, a larger spot between veins 2 and 3, and 

 a smaller one between 3 and 5 semihyaline buff. 



Length of forewing : 20 mm. 



Hab. North Luzon, Philippine Islands, 51)00—6000 ft. (J. Whitehead). 



2 (?<?. 



2. Callitomis distorta sp. nov. 



?. Antennae brown; legs brown; thorax black-brown with orange stripes; 



frons orange ; abdomen black-brown with six narrow orange rings. Forewing 



deep earth-brown. Hindwing minute, distorted, and aborted, deep earth-browu. 



Length of forewing : 14 ram. ; of hindwing 6 mm. 



Hab. Pulo Bisa, north of Obi Island, September 1897 (W. Doherty). 



2 ? ?. 



3. Ceryx aflSnis sp. nov. 



S- Differs from spheiwdrs Meyr. in the abdomen having a longitudinal lilack 

 dorsal band, and in the hyaline patch on hindwing being reduced to a round spot 

 and having a yellow streak below base of cell. 



?. Similar, but without abdominal band and yellow streak at base of 

 hindwing. 



Length of forewing : i 14 mm. ; j 10 mm. 



llab. Kumasi River, North-East British New Guinea (low country), September 

 1907 (A. S. Meek). 



7 c?cJ, 2 ? ?. 



4. Ceryx meeki sp. nov. 



cJ. Pectus, frons, and tegulae orange ; antennae black ; thorax black with 



Orange patch ; alidomen black witii seven complete orange bands. Forewing 



bhxck glossed with purple ; a large patch below the cell, a large patch within the 

 cell, a smaller patch between veins 3 and 4, one between veins 4 and 5, and one 



between 7 and 8 hyaline. Hindwing orange, costal and outer margin broadly 



black, but tornns and abdominal margin orange. 



?. Similar, but liyaline spots larger and hindwing rounder. 



Length of forewing : ^j 13 mm. ; ? lo mm. 



Hab. Milne Bay, British New Guinea, November 1S08 to January 1899 

 (A. S. Meek). 



2 Si, 1 ?. 



