SYNVT.VIK'TTA. — BAMTIUS. 21 1 



*1862 b. Syntarctia mssa. ( Plate XL VIII. fig. 19.) 



Syntarctia russits, Roths. A. M. X. II. (8) iv. p. 228 (1909). 



Head and thorax ochreous tinged with reddish brown, the vertex 

 of head with slighl fuscous streak, the tegulse and patagia with 

 slight fuscous points; pectus paler; the extremities of the tibiae 

 and the tarsi with fuscous rings ; abdomen pale ochreous dorsally 

 tinged with reddish brown. Fore wing ochreous suffused with 

 reddish In-own ; a subbasal black point on costa and slight obliquely 

 placed fuscous spots on median nervureand above vein 1 ; a double 

 oblique waved antemedial line with fuscous band beyond it; a 

 double waved medial line; the discocellulars blackish, placed on a 

 faint fuscous band which below the cell is narrow and incurved ; 

 postmedial line double, lunulate, incurved below vein 4; a sub- 

 terminal band formed of dentate marks defined by fuscous, a black 

 point on its outer edge at discal fold ; a slight dentate line just before 

 termen and terminal series of black points. Hind wing semihyaline 

 whitish tinged with brown. 



Hab. Braztl, Up. Amazons, Fonte Boa (Kfru/es), type f 2 in 

 Coll. Rothschild, Santo Antonio do Javary, Codajas, Iquitos. 

 Exp., J 32, $ 34 millim. 



1362 will stand as Syntarctia cenone, Butl. 

 1 302 c. Syntarctia testacea. 



Halisidota testacea, Moschl. Verb. Zool.-bot, Ges. Wien, xxvii. p. 668, 

 pi. 9. f. 32 i L877). 



S. testacea Moschl. is distinct from S. cenone Butl., being a 

 browner species with the paired lines of fore wing less dentate and 

 tilled in with slight dark suffusion so as to form obscure dark 

 bands. 



Both speeies are found in Surinam. 



Hab. Surinam, Paramaribo, 1 3 ; Fr. Guiana, Cayenne, 1 3 , 

 I;, de Kourou, 1 -•;,(>$ , St. Laurent Maroni, 3 $. Exp., 3 30, 

 ? 40 millim. 



*13G2^. Syntarctia uniformis. (Plate XLVIII. fig. 20.) 

 Halisidota u/niformis, Eoths. Wov. Zool. xvii. p. 68 (1910). 



$. Head and thorax pale dirty brown; pectus pale ochreous; 

 legs tinged with brown ; abdomen yellowish white dorsally tinged 

 with brown. Fore wing uniform pale ochreous brown. Hind 

 wing semihyaline yellowish white. 



Fore wing with veins 10, 11 stalked from the cell. 



Hab. Br. Guiana, R. Demerara, type f $ in Coll Rothschild. 

 Exp. 34 millim. This may be a variety of $. testacea. 



1363 a. Baritius acuminata, Wlk. trans, from Cat. Lep. Phal. 

 B. M. vol. i. p. 417. 



Hind wing with vein 8 absent. 



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