632 AGAKISTID^. 



Genus SYFANIA. 



Type. 



Syfania, Obertb. tA,. Ent. xviii. p. 19 (1893) bieti. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, fringed witb long hair 

 below ; frons with truncate conical prominence with raised rim at extremity ; 

 antennae simple, the shaft dilated before extremity ; pectus and ventral surface 

 of abdomen clothed with long hair ; tibia3 with the spurs long, hind tibia with 

 long hair above and with a few spines between the medial and terminal spurs. 

 Fore wing with veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 9 from 10 anastomosing 

 with 7, 8 to form the areole ; (5 from areole or angle of cell ; 11 free. Hind 

 wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of disco- 

 cellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle. 



A. Hind wing with yellow or orange bar at toruus. 



a. Hind wing yellow, with black discoidal spot, fascia on 



inner area, and terminal band diibernardi. 



b. Hind wing black, with yellowish spots in, below, and 



beyond cell dejeani. 



B. Hind wing without yellow bar at tornus. 



a. Abdomen with yellow segmental lines ; hind wing with 



the spots yellowish giraudeaiii. 



b. Abdomen without yellow lines ; hind wing with the spots 



white bieii. 



*174, Syfania du"bernardi. 



Syfania dubernardi, Oberth. Et. Ent. xix. p. 21, pi. viii. f, 70 (1894). 



$ . Black ; tegulae and patagia streaked with orange ; abdomen 

 with orange dorsal streak on first two segments, the extremity 

 yellow with two black spots ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of 

 abdomen with the hair pale yellow. Fore wing with pale yellow 

 spot in base of cell and streak below it ; a spot in end of cell and 

 elongate spot below it ; a streak on basal half of vein 1 ; a post- 

 medial band from below costa to vein 3, and a small spot above 

 tornus. Hind wing yellow, the base and a fascia above inner 

 margin black ; a large black discoidal spot ; a broad terminal black 

 band enclosing a yellow bar from submedian fold to tornus ; under- 

 side with black streaks at base in and below cell ; a series of white 

 spots in interspaces of terminal area. 



Hah. W. China, Tchang-kou, type t $ in Coll, Oberthiir. Exp. 

 40 millim. 



175. Syfania dejeani. 



Syfania dejeani, Oberth. Et. Ent. xviii, p, 19, pi. v. f. 68 (1893). 



cJ . Black ; palpi banded with yellow ; sides of frons yellow ; 

 tegulje, patagia, and thorax striped with yellow ; pectus, legs, and 

 ventral surface of abdomen with the hair orange, the last with 

 slight dorsal yellowish streak. Fore wing with leaden streak on 

 basal half of vein 1, a spot in middle of cell, and discoidal bar; 

 orange-yellow spots in middle and in and below end of cell, and a 

 postmedial band from below costa to vein 3 ; streaks of yellow scales 

 below cell and on inner margin, spots below base of costa, and some 



