SYNTOMIN^E. 47 



196. Syntomis ypleta. n. sp. 



<J ? Antennae, top of head, thorax, abdomen and wings blackish 

 brown, frons, collar, fore-part of thorax on each side, and large spots 

 on every segment on each side of abdomen golden yellow, fore-wings 

 with a long limpid space filling up most of the cell, another longer, 

 below it in the interno-median interspace, divided from the other 

 merely by the median vein, filling up nearly all the interspace from 

 close to the base till just below the end of cell, from whence it becomes 

 narrower above the sub-median vein almost to the outer margin, 

 a band of two long discal limpid spots, commencing from close to 

 the end of the cell, each divided into two by the branches ; hind- 

 wing with a long oval-shaped spot running down the abdominal 

 margin, yellow in both sexes, showing some limpid places in the 

 female, but entirely covered with golden scales in the male. Under- 

 side as above, abdomen with yellow spots at the sides and pale 

 segmental bands, legs brown, fore-legs in the female marked with 

 gold at their base, in the male much thickened and covered with 

 yellow hairs. 



Expanse of wings I inch. 

 a. Waigiou (<J ? types). (Wallace). 



Allied to S. ampla (Walker), but can easily be distinguished by 

 the absence of the large limpid discal spots on the hind-wings. 



197. Syntomis formicina. n. sp. 



? Antennae, space on head between, thorax, abdomen and wings 

 black, frons, collar, sides of thorax in front, a spot behind, and a 

 row of large spots on each side of abdomen golden yellow, the basal 

 one on the abdomen the largest, forming nearly a complete golden 

 basal band ; fore-wings mostly limpid, with long stripe-like spots, 

 1st filling the cell except at the base, 2nd in the interno-median 

 interspace, divided from the 1st merely by the median vein, and 

 nearly filling the interspace from near the base to below the end of 

 cell, then narrowing hindward to near hinder angle, two discal spots 

 divided by the veins, both commencing close to the end of cell ; 

 hind-wings with one large round spot near the anal angle intersected 

 by the bifurcated median branch. Below as above, abdomen black, 

 with yellow spots at the sides, legs black. 



Expanse of wings i^ inches. 



a. New Guinea (type). (Wallace). b. New Guinea (Higgins). 



(Wallace). 



The type specimen is the one from New Guinea referred to by 

 Walker, xxxi. p. 73, under S. gtittulosa ; the example of that species 

 from Aru is the type : it is also a female and is quite distinct from 

 this species, of which there are the two female specimens from New 

 Guinea above referred to. 



