46 SYNTOMID^. 



Syntomis macrospila, Wlk. xxxi. 67 (1864) ; Kirby. Ccit. TTet. p. 97. 

 Synfomis constricta, Butl. 111. Het. i. p. 18, pi. 7. f. 6 (1877); Kirby, Cat. 



■ Het. p. 96. 

 Syntomis leiigaka, Holland, Psyche, vi. p. 375 (1893). 

 Syntomis cyhelisfes, Holland, Psyche, vi. p. 393 (1893). 

 Syntomis hilda, Erhmanu, Can. Ent. xxvi. p. 69 (1894). 



Black shot with metallic blue and purple ; frons without spot or 

 with a small or large white spot ; antennae white at tips ; pectus 

 with white patches ; abdomen with white bands on 1st and 5th 

 segments and ventral bands, sometimes more or less obsolete, on the 

 intermediate segments. Pore wing with elongate hyaline patch 

 below the cell ; a wedge-shaped patch in the cell ; a spot above vein 

 6 and two spots between veins 3 and 5. Hind wing with hyaline 

 spot below the cell and a small spot between veins 2 and 5, leaving 

 the apical area broadly black. 



Ab. 1. Hind wing with the spot between veins 2 and 5 more 

 extensive. 



a. terminalis, frons without white spot. 



b. constricta, frons with white spot. 



c. cyhelistes, fore wing with subapical white spot on term en. 

 Ab. 2. leugalea. Hind wing hyaline, with narrow terminal band 



diminishing from apex to vein 2 ; fore wing with subapical white 

 spot on cilia. 



Hah. W. Africa, Ogove R., types f leugalea S , cyhelistes 9 , 

 in Coll. Holland ; Sierra Leone {Morgan, Foxcroft), types alhimacula 

 2, macrospila (J; Congo (Curror), types terminalis § and con- 

 stricta 2 • ^^P- 32-36 millim. 



35. Ceryx elasson. (Plate I. fig. 21.) 



Syntomis elasson, Holland, Psyche, vi. p. 375 (1893). 



Black ; frons, tips of antennae, and patches on patagia, pectus, and 

 coxte white ; abdomen with white bands on 1st and 5th segments, the 

 ventral surface with bands on 2nd, 3rd, and 4th segments. Fore 

 wing with wedge-shaped hyaline patch in cell ; an elongate patch 

 below the cell extending nearly to termen, and elongate spots be- 

 tween veins 3 and 5 and above 6. Hind wing with hyaline patch 

 below the cell, conjoined to a spot between veins 2 and 5. 



Hah. W. Africa, Ogove E., 1 $ ; Cameroons, 1 J . EAy. 26 

 millim. Type f in Coll. HoUand. 



*36. Ceryx seminigra. (Plate I. fig. 20.) 

 Syntomoides seminigra, Holland, Ent. News Philad. 1898, p. 11. 



S . Black tinged with cupreous green ; frons white ; pectus with 

 white patches ; hind femora white at extremity ; abdomen with 

 dorsal white spot on 1st segment and ventral bands on first two 

 segments. Pore wing with wedge-shaped hyaline patch in cell ; an 

 oblique wedge-shaped patch from median nervure before middle of 

 cell to near tornus, and elongate spots between veins 3 and 5 and 



