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being fuscous brown ; the wings tinged with brown. Fore wing 

 with the antemedial line better defined and expanding into a patch 

 above inner margin ; the spot in end of cell brownish ; the veins 

 and interspaces beyond the cell all streaked with brown ; the 

 marginal band straighter and widest at middle. Hind wing with 

 the veins more strongly streaked with brown. Underside of fore 

 wing with the yellow suffusion round the ocellus deeper and more 

 prominent. 



Hob. Khasis ; Java. Exp. 26 millim. 



Genus SYNGAMIA. 



Syngamia, Guen. Delt. $ Pyr. p. 187 (1854). 

 ^Ethaloeasa, Led. Wien. ent. Mon. 1863, p. 435. 

 Bacotoma, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii, p. 282 (1885). 

 Orphanostigma, Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) vi, p. 478 (1890). 



Type, S.florella, Cram., from the Neotropical region. 



Range. The tropical and subtropical zones. 



Differs from Bocchoris in the antenna? being annulated with rings 

 at the joints ; the frons rounded ; palpi more broadly fringed in 

 front. 



4823. Syngamia abruptalis, Wlk. Cat. xvii, p. 371 ; Moore, Lep- 



Ceyl. iii, pi. 178, fig. 14 ; C. $ S. no. 4341. 

 Asopia dotatalis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1305. 

 Asopia suffectalis, Wlk. Cat. xxxiv, p. 1307. 



Bright fulvous ; frons with lateral white lines ; palpi below, pectus, 

 legs, and abdomen below white. Fore wing with curved antemedial 

 fuscous line ; a discocellular lunule ; the postmedial line very 

 slightly excurved between veins 5 and 2, then retracted to origin 

 of vein 2 and excurved again. Hind wing with oblique antemedial 

 fuscous line ; a sinuous postmedial line from costa to vein 2. Both 

 wings with black marginal line and line through the cilia, which 

 are grey. 



Hob. W.Africa; throughout India, Ceylon, and Burma ; Anda- 

 mans ; Java ; Australia ; Fiji. Exp. 18 millim. 



4824. Syngamia latimarginalis, Wlk. Cat. xvii, p. 370 ; Moore, Lep. 



Ceyl. iii, pi. 178, fig. 16 ; C. 8f S. no. 4346. 

 Botys jucundalis, Led. Wien. ent. Mon. 1863, p. 463, pi. 8, fig. 17 ; 



C. $ S. no. 4062. 

 Orphanostigma versicolor, Warr. A. M. N. H. (6) xviii, p. 175. 



Differs from abruptalis in the fore legs being banded with black ; 

 abdomen ringed with black, the anal tuft with paired white lines 

 and a black line between them. Fore wing varying from orange 

 to pale yellow ; the whole outer area of both wings beyond the 

 postmedial line purplish fuscous except a patch in the sinus of the 

 line below vein 2 of fore wing ; the antemedial line of hind wing 

 terminating near anal angle ; a black spot just above anal angle. 

 Many of the yellow specimens have most of the basal area of both 



