Species of Eastern Lepidoptera. 441 



SyntomidsB. 



Genus Syntomoides, Hampson. 



Syntomoides quisqualis, sp. n. 



cJ ? . Antennas simple, black, with white tips ; frons 

 white ; thorax and abdomen black, the former with a large 

 ochreous spot in front and another behind, abdomen with five 

 broad ochreous bands. Wings deep black : fore wings with a 

 large hyaline patch filling the outer two thirds of the cell, a 

 hyaline space occupying the whole interno-median area up to 

 vein 2 (this space is in some specimens cut in two by a black 

 bar), a band of three large hyaline discal dots; hind wings 

 hyaline, with black margins, broadest on costa and at apex. 



Expanse of wings ly^-lyV inch. 



Shillong. Five males and one female. 



Much like Syntomis theiebus, Fabr., from China and Japan ; 

 the body similar, but the frons is white, and not ochreous as 

 in that species ; the hyaline spots are similarly disposed but 

 larger, S. thelebus is, however, a true Syntomis, and this 

 species is a Syntomoides — the fore wing with vein 3 from 

 before end of cell, 4 and 5 from the end ; hind wing with vein 3 

 absent. 



Genus Eressa, Walker. 

 Eressa ginorea, sp. n. 



$ . Deep black ; abdomen with a broad golden band in 

 front, black hairs at the tip : fore wings with two bands of 

 hyaline spots — first in the middle, consisting of three, two long 

 and the centre one round, occupying the outer line of the cell 

 and the interspaces below it ; the second discal, of four spots 

 in pairs : hind wings with a small round hyaline spot near 

 the middle of the abdominal margin. 



Expanse of wings T 8 - inch. 



Cherra Punji. One example. 



Allied to E. aperiens, Walker. 



Zygaenid.se. 



Genus Phacusa, Walker. 



Phacusa sizala, sp. n. 



<$ $ . Black ; frons metallic green, tongue crimson ; head, 

 collar, and fore part of thorax powdered with metallic green. 



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