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NEW SYNT03nDAE AND ABCTIANAE. 



By the HON WALTER ROTHSCHILD, Pii.D. 



{SYNTOMIDAE.) 



1. Amata wilemani sp. nov. 



<J. Legs deep brown ; frous white, vertex blaok ; thorax creamy white, 

 shoulders sooty brown ; antennae black, tips white ; abdomen creamy white, 



segments narrowly ringed with sooty black. Forewing hyaline, veins sooty black, 



costal region sooty black slightly powdered with white scales, outer margin sooty 

 black with irregular patches of creamy white between the nervnres submarginally, 



inner margin greyish cream, a deep black discocelkilar patch. Hindwing hyaline, 



nervnres sooty brown, abdominal area creamy white, margins sooty black edged 

 internally with creamy white. 



Length of forewing : 24 mm. 



Hab. Tainan, Formosa. 2 3S. 



2. Amata aurantiifrons sp. nov. 



(?. Legs black, basal half of tarsus of liindleg white ; frons orange ; antennae 

 black, tip yellow ; vertex, tegulae, and patagia black ; thorax orange with trans- 

 verse black baud ; abdomen orange ringed with black. Forewing blackish 



chocolate, a wedge-shaped patch in cell, a large irregular patch below it, one 

 above vein 2 and one above vein 3 and one on each side vein 5 orange, somewhat 



semihyaliue. Hindwing semihyaline orange with very broad blackish chocolate 



margins running into centre of wing at vein 3. 



Length of forewing : 22 mm. 



Hab. Tainan, Formosa. 1 <?. 



3. Amata arfakensis sp. nov. 



(?. Pectus blackish olive ; legs blackish brown ; head and tegulae orange ; 

 thorax black, an orange patch on metathorax ; abdomen orange ringed with blackish 



olive, anal segment and sides of 6 and 7 blackish olive. Forewing bronzy 



greenish olive-black with sis semihyaliue white patches, one in cell 1 beyond it, 



two below cell, and one on each side of vtin 3 ; fringe orange-brown. Hindwing 



bronzy greenish olive-black, a large subbasal semihyaline white jiatih, a small 

 similar i)atch in cell, and a large one beyond cell. 



Length of forewing : 22 mm. 



? . Similar. 



Hab. Niuay Valley, Central Arfak Mts., Dntch New Guinea, 3.500 ft., February 

 and March 1909 (A. E. Pratt coll.). 1 tj, 1 ? (c? type). 



4. Amata alberti sp. nov. 

 <? and ¥. Legs and pectus black; antennae black; frons, tegulae, and spot 

 on thorax orange ; rest of thorax black ; abdomen orange-yellow, narrowly black 



between the segments, anal segment black with dorsal orange-yellow spot. 



Forewing black-brown, a subbasal semihyaline huffish orange spot, a similar patch 



