24 amatid,*:. 



and coxse mostly orange ; abdomen with orange basal patch and 

 bands on six following segments. Fore wing black-brown ; an 

 orange-hyaline wedge-shaped patch in cell, a wedge-shaped spot 

 below base of cell, an oblique wedge-shaped patch from below base 

 of vein 2 to near termen, an elongate streak above vein 6 and 

 slight streak above 7 and elongate spots above veins 4, 3. Hind 

 wing black-brown with orange patch in and below the cell extending 

 to near tornus and a pair of spots above and below vein 3. 



$. Vertex of head black; abdomen with live bands beyond the 

 basal patch ; fore wing with the patches above veins 4, 3 and below 

 2 more elongate. 



Hab. Philippines, Luzon, Manila (Fletcher, Ledyard), 1 d 1 , 

 4 £ type, Sta. Rosa (Betton), 1 ?, Taytai (Betton), 1 $, 

 Mindoro (McGregor), 1 6 , Mindanao, Cagayancillo (McGregor), 

 1 6 . Exp. 22-2'b* millim. 



100 h. Amata ticaonis. (Plate II. fig. 11.) 



Syntomis iicaonis, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xix. p. 223 (1907). 



Black-brown ; antennae white at tips ; frons and tegulse orange ; 

 pectus with lateral orange patch; fore femora and tibiae streaked 

 with orange ; abdomen with basal orange patch followed by six 

 bands in male, five in female. Fore wing with wedge-shaped 

 orange-hyaline patch in end of cell, a triangular patch below base 

 of cell, an oblique wedge-shaped patch from below base of vein 2 to 

 near termen, an elongate streak above vein 6 sometimes with traces 

 of a streak above 7, and elongate spots above veins 4, 3. Hind 

 wing with orange patch in and below the cell to near tornus and 

 pair of spots above and below vein 3. 



Hab. Philippines, Ticao (McGregor), 3 d\ 1 $ type. Exp. 

 24-28 millim. 



*100 c. Amata alberti. 



Amata alberti, Roths. Nov. Zool. xviii. p. 154 (1911), & xix. p. 377, pi. v. 

 f. 7. 



J . Head and thorax black-brown with a purplish gloss ; frons, 

 back of head, tegulae, and a patch on metathorax orange ; pectus 

 with lateral orange patches ; abdomen orange with narrow black 

 segmental bands, the anal segment black with orange dorsal spot- 

 Fore wing black-brown with a purple gloss ; a rather quadrate 

 orange-yellow antemedial spot below the cell, quadrate patch in end 

 of cell, oblique patch below base of vein 2 with minute spot above 

 it, elongate spot above vein 6 with slight streak below it, and spots 

 above and below vein 4. Hind wing orange-yellow, the costal area 

 black confluent with a discoidal spot ; the terminal area black- 

 brown with a purple gloss, angled inwards below vein '2, and 

 narrowing to a point at tornus. 



Hab. Br. N. Guinea, Kumusi B (Meek), type f 6 in Coll. 

 Rothschild. Exp. 24 millim. 



