:}() A. MAT ID J'. 



orange-yellow bands on eacli segment. Fore wing black-brown ; 

 a diffused orange-yellow streak below basal balf of costa ; the area 

 below the cell orange-yellow to above vein 2 and to near termen 

 with black-brown spots below median nervure near base and at middle, 

 and a streak on terminal part of vein 1 ; a rather quadrate orange- 

 yellow patch in end of cell and elongate spots above veins 6, 1, 8. 

 Hind wing orange-yellow ; a black-brown discoidal spot conjoined 

 to a fascia on costa ; a terminal black-brown band, broad at costa, 

 narrowing to a point at tornus and emitting a wedge-shaped patch 

 below vein 2 almost to the cell. 



Hah. E. Java, type t 9 in Coll. Rothschild. Exp. 32 millim. 

 This is very probably a variety of A. pfeiffercs. 



128 I. Amata flava. (Plate II. fig. 19.) 



Syntomis lucerna, flava, Wileman, Entom. 1910, p. 221. 



Head and thorax black-brown, the frons with yellow patch ; 

 antennae white at tips ; the pro- and metathorax with orange patches, 

 the pectus with orange patches at sides ; abdomen black with seven 

 orange bands and an obsolescent dorsal patch on anal segment. 

 Fore wing black-brown ; an orange spot at base, quadrate subbasal 

 spot below the cell, wedge-shaped patch in end of cell, oblique patch 

 below vein 2, an elongate spot below vein 7 with minute spot above 

 it, and spots below veins 5 and 4. Hind wing black-brown ; an 

 orange patch below the cell confluent with a patch above 2 and 

 small spot above vein 3. 



Hah. Formosa, Banshoryo (Wileman), type t 6 in Coll. 

 Wileman, Kanshirei (Wileman), 4 $ • Exp. 40 millim. 



*128 c. Amata aurantiifrons. 



Amata aurantiifrons, Roths. Nov. Zool. xviii. p. 154 (1911), & xix. p. 377, 

 pi. v. f. 14. 



3 . Head and thorax black ; frons and patches on pro- and meta- 

 thorax orange; antennae white at tips; pectus with lateral orange 

 patches ; tarsi whitish at base; abdomen black with orange bands 

 on each segment, the anal segment with dorsal orange patch. Fore 

 wing black ; some orange at base ; a wedge-shaped semihyaline 

 orange patch in end of cell ; an antemedial orange patch below 

 the cell slightly conjoined to an oblique patch below vein 2 ; an 

 elongate patch above vein 6 and short streak above vein 7 ; orange 

 patches above and below vein 4. Hind wing black ; an orange patch 

 below the cell conjoined to a patch above vein 2 and small spot above 

 vein 3 ; a small spot in the cell above origin of vein 2. Underside 

 of fore wing with yellow streak above basal half of inner margin. 



Hah. Formosa," Tainan, type t 3 in Coll, Rothschild. Exp. 

 46 millim. 



