STNTOMIS. G7 



b^. Abdomen with the ventral surface black cyanura. 



c^. Wings whoUy black bicolor. 



C. Abdomen black ; wings with hyaline spots ; hind wing 



with orange patch below base of cell atricornis, 



83. Syntomis graduata, n, sp. (Plate II. fig. 28.) 



S ' Head, thorax, aixl abdomen black ; tegula?. and a patch on 

 metathorax crimBon ; abdomen with subdorsal and lateral crimson 

 streaks, the subdorsal streaks conjoined by segmental lines. Fore 

 wing with hyaline streak above vein 1 from near base to near 

 termen, and a series of spots between veins 2 and 5 and G and 8, 

 diminishing in size towards costa. Hind wing with hyaline patches 

 below the cell and above vein 2, and spot between veins 8 and 5, 

 w^hich are stalked. 



5 with broad dorsal crimson fascia on abdomen. 



Hab. China, Kiang Nan, 1 J type; 5 in Coll. Joannis. 

 Eivp. 30 millim. 



84. Syntomis diaphana. 



Syntomis diaphana, Koll. Hiigel's Kashmir, iv. p. 460, pi. 19. f. 7 



' (1844) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. i. p. 216 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 95. 

 Syntomis vitreata, Herr.-Schiiff. Aussereur. Schmett. f. 267 (1855) ; Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 95. 

 Syntomis cenone, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 344 (1876). 



Black ; antennaj white at tips ; frons, teguhe, patagia and a 

 patch on metathorax, thorax at sides and coxse orange-yellow ; 

 abdomen with seven yellow bauds in male, six in female, the first 

 two more or less indented and interrupted on dorsum ; extremity 

 shot with blue. Fore wing with slight yellow streaks below costa, 

 on median nervure and vein 1 ; the interspaces occupied by 

 yellowish hyaline patches, leaving a dark discocellular patch; an 

 apical patch sending a tooth inwards above vein 5, and an expan- 

 sion of the dark termen between veins 2 and 3. Hind wing hyaline 

 yellow with the veins and margins dark, broadly so on outer half 

 of costa, on apical part of termen, and at vein 2. 



Hab. N.W. Himalayas, Almorah (Boijs), Dalhousie (Harford), 

 Masuri, Kasauli ; Kashmir ; Assam, Khasis, Sibsagar ; Bxjkma. 

 Kvj). 46-52 millim. 



85. Syntomis baiaea. 



Hydrusa baicea, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1891, p. 473, pi. 19. f. 10; 

 Hmpsn. Moths Ind. i. p. 222 ; Kirby, Cat. Hot. p. 902. 



Head orange ; antennse black, white at tips ; thorax orange 

 banded with black ; abdomen black with seven orange bands, the 

 anal segment blue-black, often with a yellow patch. Fore wing 

 with large hyaline patches iu the interspaces ; the veins and 

 margins black ; more or less developed yellow streaks below costa 



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