Genera and Species of Syntomidse. -395 



300 a. Melisa atavistis, sp, n. 



Fore wing of male with veins 2, 3, 4 not bent downwraxls ; 

 hind wing rather larger and less distorted, the costal area 

 with fold towai'ds apex only, 



(^ . Head and thorax black-brown shot with some metallic 

 blue ; legs scarlet, the tibise with some blue-black at base 

 and orange on inner side, the tarsi orange ; abdomen black- 

 brown with silvery-blue segmental lines on terminal segments, 

 subdorsal series of ochreous spots, the anal tuft crimson, the 

 ventral surface with the basal half scarlet, the terminal half 

 ochreous. Fore wing black-brown suffused with metallic 

 blue. Hind wing black-brown. Underside of fore wing 

 with grey-brown streak above vein 5. 



Hab. Gold Coast, Bibianaha (Spurrell), 3 c^ type. Ea^jj. 

 48 mm. 



417 a. Eunomia caymanensis, sp. n. 



? . Head and thorax black ; palpi white in front and 

 behind; frons edged with white except above at middle; 

 guise and a point on vertex of head white; tegulse and 

 patagia edged Avith white, the dorsum of thorax with white 

 streak and the meso- and metathorax edged with white 

 behind ; pectus, fore coxse at sides, and tJie femora above 

 except at extremities crimson, the coxse white in front, the 

 legs streaked with white ; abdomen black with subdorsal 

 series of white and crimson bars, the terminal segments with 

 dorsal white segmental lines, the anal segment with white 

 patch, lateral crimson stripes, the ventral surface crimson at 

 base, then with crimson bands. Fore wing hyaline, the 

 veins and margins black slightly irrorated with white; an 

 oblique white striga below base of cell and streak on base of 

 vein 1 ; a black discoidal bar conjoined to the black on 

 costa ; the terminal band expanding widely on apical area 

 and below vein 2, its inner edge angled inwards at discal 

 fold. Hind Aving hyaline, the veins and margins black 

 slightly irrorated with white, the inner area black to sub- 

 median fold, the black on termen expanding widely on apical 

 area. 



Hab. Grand Cayman, Georgetown {Savage-English) , 1 $ 

 type. Exp. 32 mm. 



805 a. Diptilon jlavipalpis, sp. n, 



cJ . Head and thorax black ; palpi orange, the third joint 



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