AM ATA. 13 



with metallic bine; subdorsal and lateral series of minute whitish 

 spots except on basal and terminal segments. Fore wing black- 

 brown ; a wedge-shaped hyaline patch in cell, elongate curved 

 patch below the cell from near base to near termen, and elongate 

 spots above veins 6, 4, 3. Hind wing black-brown with a bluish 

 gloss ; a hyaline spot below tbe cell. 



Bab. Dutch N. Guinea, Geelvink Bay, Biak I. (JDoherty), tvpef 

 J in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. :J2 millim. 



Genus SYNTOMIS. 

 Amata, Fabr. Illiger's Mag. vi. p. 289 (1808), type passalis, lias priority. 



*72 a. Amata sexpuncta. (Plate I. fig. 18.) 



Eressa sexpuncta, Eoths. Nov. Zool. xix. p. 124 (1912). 



$ . Head and thorax black-brown ; antennae white at tips ; 

 abdomen black-brown, a yellow dorsal patch on basal segment and 

 band on 5th segment except on ventral surface. Fore wing black- 

 brown ; small round hyaline spots below middle of cell, in the cell 

 towards extremity and beyond the cell above veins 6 and 3. Hind 

 wing black-brown with round hyaline spot below middle of cell, and 

 elliptical spot above vein 2. 



Huh. Borneo, Sarawak, Limbang, type t 2 in Coll. Rothschild. 

 Exp. 2S millim. 



*74a. Amata calidupensis. 



Amata kalidwpensis, Roths. Nov. Zool. xvii. p. 432 (1910), & xix. p. 37(1, 

 pi. iii. f. 46. 



6 ■ Head scarlet, the palpi and antenna' brown, the latter white 

 at tips ; teguke scarlet at base, the shoulders with scarlet spots, the 

 rest of thorax brown ; pectus scarlet ; legs brown ; abdomen brown 

 with scarlet bands on each segment. Fore wing black-brown ; a 

 wedge-shaped hyaline patch in cell, elongate patch below the cell, 

 and elongate spots above veins 6, 4, 3. Hind wing black-brown 

 with hyaline spots below the cell and above veins 2 and 3. 



Hab. Moluccas, Toekan Bessi Is., Kalidupa (Kuhn), type f J 

 in Coll. Rothschild. A\rj>. 24 millim. 



74 b. Amata hemiphcenica. 



Syntomis hemiphcenica, Hmpsn. P. Z. S. 1910, p. 389. pi. xxxvi. f. 1. 



<S . Head and thorax black with a faint metallic gloss ; antennae 

 white at tips ; frons white; tarsi whitish at base; abdomen crim- 

 son, the last three segments and the ventral surface black with a 

 faint metallic gloss. Fore wing black with a faint metallic gloss ; 

 a wedge-shaped hyaline patch in cell, an oblique patch below vein 2 



