TRICH^TA. O / 



just beyond middle, and an oblique band of conjoined spots just 

 beyond the cell between veins 7 and 3, expanding towards vein 3. 



Hub. JN'iAs, 1 2 . Exp. 30 millim. 



This may be a variety of basifera. 



61. Trichaeta basifera. (Plate II. fig. 6.) 



Syntomis basifera, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vi. p. 92 (1862) ; Kirby, 

 Cat. Het. p. 98. 



Black shot with bright purple : antennae white at tips ; abdomen 

 metallic green. Fore wing with small hyaline spot below base of 

 cell ; an oblique hyaline white patch beyond the cell between 

 veins 8 and 2, with somewhat dentate edges. 



Ab. 1. Hind wing with continent hyaline spots below the cell 

 and above vein 2. — Malacca, in Coll. Staudinger. 



Hab. Borneo, Sarawak ( Wallace), 1 $ . Exp. 30 millim. Type f 

 in Mus. Oxon. 



62. Trichseta albiplaga. 



Syntomis albiplaga, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vi. p. 92 (1862); Kirby, 

 ■ Cat. Het. p. 97. 



Black shot with bright purple ; 

 antennae white at tips ; abdomen 

 metallic green. Fore wing with 

 oblique hyaline white patch be- 

 yond the cell from vein 8 to 2, 

 its edges dentate. 



Hab. Borneo, Sarawak ( Wal- 



Fig. 2S.—Trich(Eta albiplaga, S- \- ^«^<')' ^ $ . Exp. 26-30 millim. 



Type t in Mus. Oxon. 



Subsp. 1. albosignata, Wlk. xxxi. 71 (1864) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 98. 

 With the white patch much broader and its edges nearly even. 

 Hab. Malacca, Pulo Aor, 2 $ types. Exp. 30 millim. 



*63. Trichseta quadriplagiata. (Plate II. fig. 7.) 



Syntomis quadriplagata, Snell. Deutsche Ent. Zeit. viii. p. 129 (1895). 



5 . Black, tinged with green ; frons and tips of antennae white ; 

 abdomen with yellowish ventral bands on two medial segments. 

 Fore wing with elongate semihyaline yellow spot below cell ; a 

 triangular spot in cell ; and a large rounded postmedial patch 

 between veins 3 and 7. Hind wing with elongate yellow patch 

 below the cell. 



Hab. E. Sumatra, Deli. Exp. 26 millim. Type t in Coll. 

 Staudinger. 



