12 Colonel C. Swinhoe on new species of 



discal, the latter has some black spots here and there ou its inner 

 edge, and two black spots or patches outwardly, one just above the 

 middle, extending almost to the outer margin, and accompanied 

 sometimes by a small spot or two near the margin above it, and the 

 other within the band near the hinder margin, also occasionally 

 accompanied by smaller spots near it ; cilia with black points at 

 its base opposite the ends of the veins. Under side whitish, tinged 

 with yellow, irrorated with grey, with the bands blacker and more 

 prominent than they are above. Expanse of wings, l/g in. 



Many specimens. 



Allied to *S'. hyriaria, Walker. 



56. Synegiodcs histrionaria, n. sp. 



^ . Dark ochreous ; shaft of antennae and top of head pure 

 white, as also is the frons ; a white spot in a purplish ring at the 

 end of each cell. Both wings irrorated with purplish-red atoms, 

 and with red blotches and spots of the same colour. Fore wings 

 with a subcostal streak of that colour from the base to beyond 

 middle ; a spot near hinder margin at its centre ; two large discal 

 oval blotches, one just above the middle, the other touching the 

 hinder margin, connected together by a discal thin band ; a 

 marginal thin diffuse band, and all that portion of the wing 

 smeared with reddish. Hind wings with an inner indistinct band 

 passing the cell-spot ; a discal row of dots, and the marginal space 

 with many reddish marks, including two large spots, one near the 

 centre, the other at the abdominal margin ; cilia of both wings 

 pale yellowish, with reddish spots at its base opposite the ends of 

 the veins. Under side paler, with the bands and blotches showing. 

 Expanse of wings, 1-^ in. 



Many specimens. 



Allied to S. sanfiuinaria, Moore ; marked in a some- 

 what similar pattern, but of quite a diiferent colour, 

 S. satiguinaria being luteous, not ochreous, and all its 

 blotches and markings are dull blood-red. 



riDONID^. 



Phylktis, Gucn., Phal., ii., p. 169 (1857). 



57. Phyletispraso7iaiia, n.8]). 



3 . Reddish, rather densely irrorated with very minute brown 



atoms ; base of the shaft of the antennae whitish. Fore wings 



rather broadly brown at the costa, with a broad smooth thin line 



