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A SYNONYMIC CATALOGUE OF THE SYNTOMIB GENUS 

 BALACRA Walk., WITH DESCRIPTIONS OF NEW SPECIES. 



By the Hon. W. ROTHSCHILD, Ph.D., F.R.S. 



(Platei:?r and W) 

 Balacra AValk. 



Bahura Walk., List. Leji. Ins. Brit. .1/w.s. vii, p. 1721 (1856) (Type : caeriileifuxcia Walk.). 

 Pseudupicoiiuma Auriv., Ent. Tidskr. vol. ii. p. 46 (1881) (Type : testacea Aur.). 

 Metan-tiii Hmpsn., Cat. Leji. Ifet. Brit. Mus. vol. i. p. 143 (IS'.W) (partim). 



Owing to the fact that no one bat Dr. Holland realised that caeruleifascia was 

 nut a Metarctia but a female of this genus, Walker's name has been relegated to 

 the rank of a synonym. It has, however, the priority by twentj'-five years over 

 Pseudapiconoma of Aurivillins. 



1. B. caeruleifascia Walk. (PI. I., figs. 8, 9). 



Balacra caeruleifascia Walker, List. Lep. Ins. Brit. Mits. vii. p. 1721 (1856). 

 Metarctia caeruleifascia Hmpsn., Cat. Lep. Ilet. Brit. .Viis. vol. i. p. 145 (1898). 

 Atttomolis ehrmanni Hmpsn., Cat. Lep. Het. Brit. IIiis. vol. i. p. 145 (1898) (nee Holl.). 



2. B. elirmanni (Holl.) (PI. I., figs. 10, 11). 



Aiitiiiiuilis elirmanni Holland, Psyche vol. vi. p. 535 (1893). 



3. B. germana spec. nov. (PI. II., tig. 24). 



c?. Similar to ehrmanni but smaller, the forewings much narrower, and termen 

 of hindwings not so much produced. Markings are all cinnabar red, not rufous 

 orange, and the ground colour of forewings is a darker, more lavender, grey. 



Length of forewing : 22 mm. ; ehrmanni, 26 mm. 



Breadth,, „ : 11 „ ; „ 15 „ 



Hab. Sierra Leone. 



4. B. humphreyi spec. nov. (PI. I., tig. 14). 



i. Coxae and innerside of tibiae orange scarlet; tarsi and outerside of tibiae 

 slaty black ; pectus and head scarlet ; antennae dark brown ; thorax and abdomen 



golden orange. Forewing umber-brown, a scarlet streak on subcostal nervure 



near base, a patch of long orange hairs on area between vein 1 and inner margin 

 occupying the basal third, a golden orange patch between vein 1 and the middle of 

 the median nervure, one in cell, and one each between 4 and 5 and u and 6, each 



patch with a partially obsolete hair-wide scarlet ring. Hindwing golden orange, 



semihyaline whitish in costal area. 



? . Similar to ? of cueruleifascia, with much more pointed forewings, and the 

 hindwings are not round but have the termen sharply produced. Pectus crimson ; 

 head orange ; antennae dark brown ; thorax mouse-groy, tegulae and patagia edged 

 with bnft'y orange, as is rest of thorax ; abdomen above pale mouse-grey edged 

 with orange, below orange edged with pale grey. Forewing wood-brown, 



