120 SYNTOMIDJB. 



Black-brown ; abdomen with an orange-yellow basal band. 

 Fore wing with elongate hyaline patch from below middle of cell 

 below vein 2 to near termen ; a spot above base of vein 2 ; a 

 quadrate patch in end of cell ; a series of four postmedial spots 

 between veins 3 and 8. often with a small additional spot between 

 •veins 5 and 6. Hind wing with hyaline patch below the cell and 

 two spots between veins 2 and 5, and often a small spot in lower 

 end of cell. 



Ab. 1. lydia : with the spots of fore wing all conjoined ; the 

 hind wing hyaline, leaving narrow black markings. 



Hab. Bombay, type moorei, Moore Coll. ; Nilgieis (J/. J. Wal- 

 liouse, Hami)son)y type and type lydia. Exp., 6 24, § 28 millim. 



222. Eressa annosa. 



Syntomis annosa, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc. iii. p. 183 (1859) ; Swinh. Cat. 



Het. Mus. Oxon. pi. 2. f. 17 ; Huipsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 466; Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 105. 

 Syntomis marcescens, Feld. Reis. Nov. pi. 102. f. 12 (1874) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 104. 

 Syntomis lasara, Pag. Jahrb. Nass. Verb, xxxviii. p. 13, pi. 2. f. 8 (1885) ; 



Ku-by, Cat. Het. p. 98. 



5 . Black suffused with dull purplish blue ; frons, tips of 

 antennae, and spots on patagia white ; abdomen metallic greenish 

 except at base, with series of white lateral spots. Fore wing with 

 wedge-shaped hyaline patch in cell ; an elongate patch below cell and 

 vein 2, and a series of spots in the interspaces between veins 2 and 8. 

 Hind wing with hyaline patches in and below cell and vein 1, and 

 rounded spots between veins 2 and 5. 



J . Brown, without the purplish-blue gloss ; wings with the 

 veins between the hyaline patches much more narrowly brown. 



Bab. Tenasseeim, Dawnat Hills (L, de Niceville), 1 § ; Singapore, 

 type t ill Mus. Oxon. ; Java, type f marcescens d in Coll. lioth- 

 schild. Ea-^j., J 34, § 50 millim. 



Sect. II. Antennae of male serrate, of female simple. 



A. Abdomen crimson, with series of bhie-black spots. 



«. Wings hyaline yellow ; fore wing with small apical 



black patch multigutta. 



b. Wings hyaline white; fore wing with the hyaline patch 



extending to vein 4 lepcha. 



B. Abdomen with each segment slightly fringed with yellow ; 



fore wing with the apical patcii extending to vein 4 niyra. 



223. Eressa multigutta. 



Syntomis mtdtigufta, Wlk. i. 134 (1854); Butl. 111. Het. i. pi. 7. f. 3 ; 



' Hmpsn. Moths Ind. i. p. 220 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 102. 

 Syntomis btanchardi, Pouj. Bull. Soc. Eut. Fr. 1884, p. cxxxvi ; Hmpsn. 

 Moths Ind. i. p. 221 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 92. 



Head and thorax metallic blue-black ; tegulse, patagia, and meta- 

 thorax fringed with scarlet ; abdomen scarlet, with short dorsal 



