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SYNTOMIDJE. 



.orange ; a quadrate spot below base of cell ; a wedge-shaped patch 

 in end of cell ; an oblique elongate patch below vein 2 ; two 

 elongate spots above veins 6, 7, and two between veins 3 and 5 ; 

 a more or less developed orange apical patch and sometimes a small 

 spot above vein 5. Hind wing -with hyaline patch edged with 

 orange below the cell and between veins 2 and 5 and extending 

 into lower end of cell. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the spots in submedian interspace con- 

 fluent and not divided by a black bar, — Huang-Mu-Chang. 



Hah. China, Shanghai, Xitou, AVashan, Ta-chien-Lu. Coll. Leech. 

 Exjp. 46 millim. 



138. Syntomis grotei. 



Syntojiiis grofel, Moore, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 245, pi. 18. f. 4; Hmpsn. Moths 

 Ind. i. p. 218 ; Kii-by, Cat. Het. p. 96. 



Head and thorax orange ; antenna} and stripes on vertex of 

 thorax black; tarsi with the 1st joint white ; abdomen with seven 

 orange bands in male, six in female, and the extremity orange, 

 Pore wing hyaline, the veins and margins black ; orange streaks on 

 subcostal nervure and vein 1 ; a black spot at base below cell ; a 

 black bar across submedian interspace ; veins 5 and 6 approximated, 

 the interspace filled in with black except a small spot near termen ; 

 the terminal band wide at apex and between veins 2 and 3. Hind 

 wing hyaline ; the costa orange ; the space above vein 5 black ; the 

 terminal band expanding into a spot at vein 2. 



Hah. China, Hongkong {Lloyd); Buema, Upper Tenasserim 

 {Wood- Mason) ; Yunnan {Anderson), type. Eccji., S 32, $ 42 

 millim. 



139. Syntomis polymita. 



Sphinx polymita, Sparrra. Ama?n. Acad. vii. p. 504, uote p (1769) ; Kirby, 



Oat. Het. p. 95. 

 Sphinx fenestrata, Drur^, 111. Exot. Ent. ii. pi. 28. f. 5 (1773); Fabr. Syst. 



Ent. p. 552; Boisd. Mon. Zyg. p. 124, pi. 8. f. 1. 

 Zygcena thdebus, Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. 1U3 (1787) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 95. 



Elack-brown ; antennae white at tips ; frous, a ring round neck, 

 patagia, and patches on vertex and sides of thorax orange ; abdomen 

 with seven orange bands and the extremity orange. Fore wing 

 with orange streaks on subcostal and median nervures and vein 1 ; 

 a hyaline patch below base of cell ; a truncate wedge-shaped patch 

 in end of cell and oblique patch below the end ; an elongate hyaline 

 spot above vein 6, usually with a small spot above vein 7 ; two spots 

 between veins 3 and 5, with vein 4 between them orange. Hind 

 wing with the median nervure and vein 1 streaked with orange ; a 

 hyaline patch below the cell becoming orange towards inner margin 

 and confluent with a spot between veins 2 and 5. 



Ab, 1. Fore wing with the hyaline patch in submedian interspace 

 undivided, a spot above base of vein 2. 



Hah. China, Hongkong {Boivring, Harrington) ; Tonkin {BucIc- 

 land). Exp. 34 millim. 



