SYNTOMIS. 107 



■white at tips; tliorax with lateral yellow spots ; 1st joint of hind 

 tarsi white ; abdomen with yeUow bauds on basal and 5th segments. 

 Fore wing with quadrate hyaline yellow spot below base of cell ; 

 an oblique quadrate patch below vein 2 ; a quadrate spot in end of 

 cell ; a postmedial spot above vein 6 and two spots between veins 

 3 and 5. Hind wing with large j^ellowish semihyaline patch below 

 the cell, slightly yellower towards inner margin ; a round post- 

 medial spot between veins 2 and 5. 



Hah. China, Foochow {De la ToKche) ; N.W. Himalayas, Kangra 

 (IfocJcing, Harford, Boys, Straclmi), Deyra Doon ; Sikhim ; 

 Calcutta, Moore Coll. ; Kiiasis. Exp. 30-44 millim. 



183. Syntomis minor. (Plate IV. fig. 15.) 



Syntomis minor, Warr. P. Z. S. 1888, p. 294 ; Hmpsn. Motbs lud. i. p. 213; 

 Kir by, Cat. Het. p. 91. 



Black shot with purple ; f rons yellow ; thorax with lateral 

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

 segments. Fore wing with small hyaline spot below base of cell, 

 another in end of cell ; an oblique spot below vein 2 ; a small spot 

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

 small hyaline patch below the ceU and spot between veins 2 and 3. 



Hah. Punjab, Kala Pani, 4 specimens (Yerbury), types. Exp, 

 20 millim. 



184. Syntomis megista, n. sp. (Plate IV. fig. 13.) 



Black-brown ; frons pure white ; pectus with slight orange 

 patches ; antennae white at tips ; abdomen with orange bands on 

 1st and 5th segments. Fore wing with quadrate hyaline spots 

 below base and in end of cell ; a somewhat wedge-shaped spot 

 below base of vein 2 and quadrate spots above veins 3 and G, some- 

 times with traces of spot above vein 4. Hind wing with tridentate 

 hyaline spot below base of cell and elliptical spot between veins 

 2 and 3. 



Hah. Borneo, Kina Balu (Waterstradt), 1 $ type, c? in ^o\l. 

 Staudinger. E.vj). 50-54 millim. 



185. Syntomis cingulata. (Plate IV. fig. 17.) 



Zygmna cingulata, Weber, Obs. Ent. p. 109 (1801) ; Ivirby, Cat. Het. p. 91. 

 Syntomis anneita, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 346 (1876). 



Black ; antennae white at tips ; thorax with lateral yellow spots ; 

 abdomen with yellow j)atch on basal segment and band on 5th 

 segment. Fore wing with small quadrate hyaline white spot below 

 base of cell ; a wedge-shaped spot in end of cell ; an elongate wedge- 

 shaped patch below vein 2 extending almost to termen ; an elongate 

 ])0stmedial spot, above vein and two between veins 3 and 5. 

 Hind wing with hyaline patch below the cell, becoming yellow 

 towards inner margin. 



Hah. China, Foochow (G. T. Lay), type annetta. Hong Kong 

 {J. C. Boivriny). Exp. 28 millim. 



