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reduced to two widely-separated spots in the interno-median inter- 

 space, a small subapical and two small submarginal spots. 



The last two may possibly be varieties of imaon. 



Hob. Calcutta ; Central India. Exp. 24 millim. 



B. Abdomen with five yellow bands. 

 404. Syntomoides hyalina, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 13 ; a $ S. no. 243. 



2 . Frons white ; antennae black with white tips ; collar and 

 thorax black ; abdomen with the distal segments steel-blue. Fore 

 wing hyaline, with the veins black ; the margins narrowly black, 

 widest at apex and centre of inner margin. Hind wing hyaline, 

 with costa and outer margin broadly black, the latter dentate near 

 vein 2 ; inner margin orange. Tarsi black. 



Hob. Sikhim ; Naga Hills. Exp. 40 millim. 



405. Syntomoides volans, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 173, pi. vi, 

 fig. 6. 



$ . Differs from hyalina in the frons being grey-brown and the 

 tips of antennae not white. 



Nab. Karen Hills. Exp. 30 millim. 



SECT. II. Antennae bipectinated in male, the branches short 

 and dilated distally, serrated in female. 



A. Abdomen with two yellow bands in male, one in female. 



406. Syntomoides incipiens, Wlk. Cat. xxxi, p. 68 ; C. $ S. no. 266. 



cJ . Black ; the frons, collar, and tegulae yellow. Fore wing 

 with a subbasal, two medial, one subapical, and two submarginal 

 hyaline spots. Hind wing with a subbasal joined to a submargiual 

 spot. Tarsi black. 



$ with the end of abdomen dilated and with a tuft of ochreous 

 hairs. 



Hob. S. India and Kanthalla, Ceylon. Exp. 17 millim. 



B. Abdomen wiiJi one basal yellow band in botli sexes. 



407. Syntomoides brachypecten, Hmpsn. III. Het. ix, ined., pi. 157, 



fig. 23. 



cJ . Differs from incipiens in having the collar and tegulse black. 

 Hab. Anuradhapura, Ceylon. Exp. 14 millim. 



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