From the Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 

 Ser. 7, Vol. i., May 1898. 



Descriptions of some new Species of Syntomidas, chiefly in 

 the Oxford Museum. By Heebert Druce, F.L.S. &c. 



Pseudopompilia mimica, sp. n. 



Female. — Primaries and secondaries brownish black : pri- 

 maries shot with greenish blue beyond the cell and along the 

 inner margin ; a tuft of greenisli-white scales at the base, 

 the fringe black : secondaries with a small semihyaline spot 

 at the base. The underside of both wings very similar to the 

 upperside; the primaries with a reddish-brown streak at the 

 apex and along the inner margin. The head, collar, tegulee, 

 thorax, abdomen, and legs black ; the legs with a yellowish- 

 white streak on the upperside ; the antennas black, with the 

 shaft sordid white from the base to the middle. 



Expanse 2 inches. 



Hah. Amazons {in the Hope Collection, Mas. Oxford). 



This very remarkable species closely resembles Myrmecopsis 

 vespa, Herr.-Schaffer, also from the Amazon region. 



Calonotos tripunctata, sp. n. 



Male. — Primaries and secondaries black ; a small green 

 spot at the base and a green streak partly along the costal 

 margin ; an elongated white spot below the cell about the 

 middle of the wing, and a rather large round white spot at 

 the end of the cell nearer the apex : secondaries with a white 

 spot on the middle of the costal margin. Underside very 

 similar to the upperside ; the costal margin of the secondaries 

 streaked with green at the base. The head, antennee, tegulae, 

 thorax, abdomen, and legs black ; the abdomen striped from 

 the base to the anus with three wide, greenish- white lines, 

 one down the middle, and one on each side. 



Expanse If inch. 



Hah. Trinidad {Lowsley, in Mus. Druce). 



Calonotos chryseis, sp. n. 



Fema?e.— Primaries above dark golden green ; underside 

 much paler, w^ith the veins black : secondaries black, with a 

 few green scales in the cell ; underside pale green, with black 

 veins. Antennae and front of the head black, with two small 

 white spots between the eyes ; palpi black. Collar golden 

 green, edged with black and three small white dots, one in 



