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*27. Ceryx resecta. 



Syntomis resecta, Herr.-Scbaff. Aus-sereur. Sclimett. f. 2G9 (1855) ; Kirbj, 

 Cat. Het. p. 94, 



S . Black tinged with dark green ; abdomen with yellow seg- 

 mental lines on 4th, 5th, and Gth segments. Fore wing with small 

 hyaline spot below base of cell ; a transverse linear spot below base 

 of vein 2; a quadrate spot in end of cell; spots between veins Ji 

 and 5, and a small spot above 6. Hind wing with small spot below 

 the cell and spot between veins 2 and 5. 



Hah. 8. Africa. EA-p. 34 millim. 1 S type t in Coll. Staud- 

 inger ; no trace of the yellow bands on abdomen is to be seen, but 

 it is much rubbed. 



28. Ceryx semicincta. (Plate I. fig. 10.) 



Syntomoides semicincta, Hmpsn. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1895, p. 282 ; and Moths 

 Ind. iv. p. 4(.i5. 



S . Black shot with green ; frons dirty white or yellow ; antennae 

 white at tips; teguloe with orange patches; tarsi with the 1st 

 joint white ; abdomen with basal orange band, sometimes incom- 

 plete above; lateral yellow spots on medial segments and band on 

 5th segment. Fore wing with wedge-shaped hyaline patch in cell ; 

 a large elongate patch below the cell and vein 2 ; and six patches in 

 the interspaces of outer area, the patch between veins 5 and 

 narrow and lanceolate. Hind wing hyaline ; the veins and margins 

 black. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with elliptical spot in end of cell ; the spots 

 above veins 2 and 7 absent ; the spots above veins 3, 4, and 7 

 small, round, and placed towards termen. — Malacca. Coll. Staud- 

 iuger. 



Ab. 2. Abdomen with the 4th segment sometimes fringed with 

 orange ; fore wing with the spots in cell quadrate, tiie spots above 

 veins 2 and 7 absent in male, much reduced in female, the streak 

 above vein 5 absent or minute. — Borneo, Kina Balu. Coll. Staud- 



inger. 



Hah. Tenasserim, Donaut Hills, type 5 (L. de Nkeville); 

 Malacca ; Borneo. Exp. 42 millim. 



29. Ceryx godarti. 



Syntomis godarti, Boisd. Mon. Zyg. p. 115, pi. 7. f. 3 (1829); Hmpsn. 



Moths ind. i. p. 210 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 92. 

 Syntomis libera, Wlk. xxxi. 78 (1864) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 92. 

 Syiitoinis fytchei, Moore, F.Z.S. 1871, p. 246, pi. 18. f. 3; Kirby, Cat. 



Het. p. 91. 

 Syntomis cwpreipennis. Butl. Joiirn. Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 347 (1876) ; 

 ' Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 92. 



Frons yellowish or dirty white ; collar orange ; metathorax with 

 an orange band; tarsi banded with white; abdomen with orange 



