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SYNTOMID.E. 



Sect. II. Abdomen with the basal segments only woolly. 



A. Thorax and abdomen orange. 



a. Head black. 



a^. Fore wing with the base orange xanthohasis. 



b^. Fore wing with the base black iiotafa. 



b. Head orange acutior. 



B. Thorax dark brown ; abdumen blue- or greenish-black. 



a. Abdomen with two orange bands ozora. 



b. Abdomen without bands. 



a^. Fore wing with the margins narrowly dark pompilina. 



?)\ Fore wing with the margins broadly dark leicce. 



* 379. Sarosa xanthobasis, (Plate VII. fig. 13.) 

 Sarosa xanthobasis, Druce, A. M. N. H. (7) i. p. 403 (1898). 



5 . Head black ; frous aud vertex brilliant blue ; thorax and 

 abdomen orange ; tegulae black with blue patches ; fore and mid 

 tibiie and tarsi and extremity of mid femora black ; abdomen with 

 dorsal black spot on 3rd segment, the 4th segment with triangular 

 dorsal patch, the terminal segments black with metallic blue on 

 dorsum ; wings hyaline, the veins, and margins broadly, black. 

 Fore wing with the basal area black, an orange patch at base ; a 

 discoidal black lunule conjoined to costal fascia ; the terminal band 

 expanding very widely on apical area and slightly at tornus. 

 Hind wing with the terminal band expanding towards apex ; the 

 inner area black. 



Hah. EcTTADOE, 1 $ type in Mus. Oxon. Exp. 58 millim. 



380. Sarosa notata. 



llijM notata, Butl. Jouru. Linn. Soc, Zool. sii. p. 390 (1876) ; Kirby, Cat. 



Het. p. 143. 

 Cosmosoma ufcntina, Druce, P. Z. S. 1883, p. 377 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. 



p. 142. 



c^ . Head black, frins blue and white, tegula; black with metallic 

 blue patches ; thorax orange-yellow : patagia fringed with black ; 



Fig. 87. — Sarosa notata, (^ . \. 



legs black and yellow ; abdomen orange-yellow above, with dorsal 

 black and blue patches, some lateral black spots ; the last three 

 segments black with metallic blue bands ; ventral surface black, 

 the valve with large lateral white patches ; wings hyaline, the 

 veins and margins black. Fore wing with discocellular lunule; 



