212 STNTOMID^E. 



C. Each segment of abdomen fringed with yellow. 



408. Syntomoides microchilus, n. sp. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen brown ; collar, tegulae, and meta- 

 thorax yellow; each segment of abdomen fringed with yellow. 

 Frons yellow ; legs brown ; antennae white at tips. Fore wing 

 hyaline ; a narrow, discocellular, brown band ; margins narrowly 

 brown ; the outer marginal band widest from apex to vein 5 and 

 betw r een veins 2 and 3. Hind wing hyaline, with narrow brown 

 margins. 



Hab. Tenasserim Valley (Doherty). . Exp. 20 milliin. Type in 

 coll. Druce. 



Genus SYNTOMIS. 



Syntomis, Ochs. Eur. Schmelt. ii. p. 103 (1808). 



Hydrusa, Wlk. Cat. i. p. 255 (1854). 



Eressa, Wlk. Cat. i. p. 149 (1854). 



Trianeura, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. xii, p. 353 (1876). 



Type, S. pliegea, Cram., from Europe. 



Range. Europe ; the whole of Africa and Asia ; Borneo ; 

 Sumatra ; Java ; Australia. 



Differs from Syntomoides in having vein 3 of the hind wing 

 present. 



Larva thickly covered with hair ; the cocoon hairy. 



SECT. I. Antennae almost simple in both sexes. 

 A. With one yellow band to abdomen on sixth segment. 



409. Syntomis unifascia, n. sp. 



$ . Frons white. Black shot with blue. Wings with the spots 

 small. Fore wing with one subbasal, two medial, one subapical, 

 and two submarginal hyaline spots. Hind wing with one subapical 

 spot ; tarsi black. 



Hab. Sikhim. Exp. 34 millim. Type in B. M. 



B. Abdomen with two yellow bands. 

 1. The frons yellow. 



410. Syntomis atkinsoni, Moore, P. Z. S. 1871, p. 245, pi. 18, fig. 2; 



C. # S. no. 223. 



Collar black ; a yellow patch on metathorax. Fore wing with 

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

 hyaline spots. Hind wing with a large basal hyaline spot ; the 

 inner margin yellow. Tips of antennae and first tarsal joints white. 



Hab. Sikhim ; Cachar ; Yunnan ; Burma ; Tenasserim. Exp. 30 

 millim. 



