40 SYNTOMIS. By Dr. A. Seitz. 



consequa. S. consequa Leech (9 e). Much smaller than the preceding species, the abdomen likewise bearing 



6 light yellow belts, which are, however, quite thin, and the thorax entirely black with the exception of 

 the yellow tegulae. The glassy spots large, but divided into two groups by dark bars, one of these 

 groups lying in the basal, the other in the marginal portions of the wing. Hindwing with a longitudinal 

 glassy spot in the anal area. Western China and Tibet. 



muirheadi. S. muirheadi Fhlr. (0 g). Head, thorax and abdomen with In'iglit orange-yellow markings. In the 



5 the abdomen bears 7 fairly regular orange rings, in the J these are rather unequal, and those on the 

 2'"' a'ld 4"' segments constricted or interrupted dorsally. The markings of the wings also vary con- 

 siderably, but this is not always sexual, as Felder supposes. The specimen figured is an exceptionally black 

 one. The hyaline spots may merge together to form large transparent areas, which almost cover the 

 aucld. whole surface of the wing as in dicliotoyna concurrens. Leech has distinguished as ab. aucta specimens 

 in which the vitreous spot in the cell occupies the whole area of the latter, and the elongate transparent 

 spot below the cell is much I'ularged. Eastern and Southern China. 



rtinjzona. S. euryzona Leecli (!' g). Body spotted and tinged with orange yellow as in miiirlieadi; on the fore- 



wing all the hyaline spots confluent so as to form one large, transparent area, which only leaves a dull 

 dark-brown margin and a dark spot at the apex of the cell. In Western China and Tibet. 



germana. In S. gerniana Fklr. (= thelebus Men. nee F., fenestrata H.-Schdff. nee Drunj) the thorax is very 



strongly marked with orange-yellow, and the abdomen ringed with the same colour; the hyaline spots are 

 large but sharply separated; the largest are the one below the apex of the cell and that on the hindwing, 

 viandarinia. ^vhich occupies the greater part of the wing. Amurland and North China. — The form mandarinia Butlr. 

 (9 h) has the markings of the body more extended yellow and the hyaline spots are more sharply defined ; 

 but this form can hardly be distinguished from true germana on account of the great variability of the 

 specimens even in one locality. On the Yang-tse-kiang and in Japan. The moths are very common 

 locally, frequenting especially the white Umbellifers which overgrow the ditches; in June and July. Pro- 

 bably polymita Sparrm. (= thelebus F.), from South China, is only a southern representative of this East 

 Asiatic species. 



pasca. S. pasca Leech (9 h). Frons yellow, thorax with fewer markings than even in the darkest germana, 



the spots more reduced, the ground-colour being deeper black and more extended. Central and Western 

 China and Tibet. 



iorquala. S. torquata LeecJi. In this species the tegulae are yellow, but the frons black; abdomen bearing 



7 yellow rings; forewing with tl hyaline spots; the fringe below the apex yellowish. Central China. 



acrospila. S. acrospila FIdr. (9 h). Similar to the preceding, but at once distinguished by a small, yellowish 



white spot in the apex of the forewing. In East, Central and West China. 



duiiihana. S. diaphana Koll. (= vitreata H.-Schdff., oenone Butlr.). This large and easily recognised species 



only touches the Palearctic region in Kashmir, and seems not to occur at all in Eastern Asia, while it 

 is widely distributed in tropical India (Burmah, Assam, etc.). Head and thorax black and yellow, ab- 

 domen bearing 7 yellow rings in the <J and 6 in the $, the anterior ones of these being constricted or interrupted 

 dorsally. On the forewing only a spot at the apex of the cell and the margin are black, the latter being 

 proximally widened into rays, and on the hindwing only the margin; everything else hyaline, yellowish. 

 Seems to occur rather singly. 



rnbrozonala. S. rubrozonata I'ouj. Frons and tip of antenna white, thorax black, abdomen with 7 purple-red 



Imcoma. or orange-yellow rings, = ab. leucoma Leech (9 f). Margins and cellular spot of the forewing black. 

 From the margin a long black ray extends to the apex of the cell, and another broader one between the 

 median branches also towards the cell, Til)et and Western China. 



(iraduala. S. graduata Hamps. (9 f). Also ringed with red, and distinguished by the cells of both wings being 



black, there being only one hyaline stripe below the cell, and on the forewing also one beyond it, but 

 no spot in the cell. Kiang-Nan, China. 



S. actea Sicmh. The typical form of this Indian species has not yet been found on Palearctic 



swinlioei. territory, but only a variety of it. The form swinhoei Leech has a black head and frons, thorax spotted 



with orange. Abdomen with 7 orange rings. Forewing with a yellow stripe below the costa and above 



the inner margin, cell with a wedge-shaped hyaline spot, the other hyaline spots as in other species. 



In Western China. 



pratli. S. pratti Leecli. From Cent)al China: in this species the frons is spotted with white, and two- 



thirds of the antenna are white; thorax black, with orange spots on the tegulae. Abdomen with (J orange 

 rings and black apex. Wings \\ith hyaline spots as in other species. 



