40 AMATID.E. 



190 a. Amata minuta. (Plate II. fig. 32.) 



Syntpmis minuta, Bang-Haas, Iris, xxiv. p. 49 (1910). 



6 . Head and thorax black; abdomen black tinged with green, 

 a dorsal orange-yellow patch at base and band on 5th segment. 

 Fore wing black tinged with green ; a quadrate hyaline antemedial 

 spot below the cell, oblong spot in end of cell, oblique spot below 

 vein 2, and elongate spots above veins 6, 4, 3. Hind wing black 

 tinged with green ; a hyaline patch below the cell confluent with 

 a small spot above base of vein 2, the lower edge of the patch and 

 vein 2 on it yellow. 



lLab. W. Turkestan, Kuschk, 1 8 . JExp. 24 millim. 



191 a. Amata libanotica. (Plate III. fig. 1.) 

 Syntomis libanotica, Bang-Haas, Iris, xix. p. 142 (1906). 



Head and thorax blue-black ; antennae whitish at tips ; fore and 

 mid femora and tibiae with yellow streaks ; abdomen brilliant 

 metallic blue, the 1st segment with yellow dorsal patch, the 

 5th segment with yellow band. Fore wing black shot, with blue ; 

 a small round subbasal spot below the cell, a rather quadrate spot 

 in end of cell and oblique spot below it, a quadrate postmedial 

 spot above vein 6, a rather elongate spot above vein 4 and 

 triangular spot above vein 3. Hind wing blue-black ; a white 

 patch below the cell with irregular outer edge indented below 

 veins 3 and 2. 



JIab. Sl'RIA, Lebanon, Id, 1 5 • Exp. 38 millim. 



193. Amata phegea, insert: — 



Ab. Tcrugeri, Bagusa, Nat. Sicil. xvii. p. 20, pi. 1. f. 2 (1904). 

 Fore wing with the hyaline spots in subrnedian interspace 

 confluent ; hind wing with the spots large and almost confluent. 



Ab. ajclopea, Bagusa, Nat. Sicil. xvii. p. 20, pi. 1. f. 3 (1904). 

 Fore wing without hyaline spots ; hind wing with one spot 

 above vein 2. 



Ab. sr.vmacirfata, Gianelli, Nat. Sicil. xvii. p. 25 (1904). 



Fore wing with three hyaline spots ; hind wing without spots. 



193 a. Amata melanocera. (Plate III. fig. 2.) 



Syntomis melanocera, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) xi. p. 338 (1903). 



Black shot with bright purple ; pectus with lateral orange 

 patches ; abdomen with dorsal orange patch on 1st segment and 

 dorsal and lateral band on 5th segment. Fore wing with small 

 quadrate subbasal hyaline patch below the cell, a quadrate patch 

 in end of cell and oblique wedge-shaped patch below vein 2 and 

 elongate spots above veins 6, 4, 3. Hind wing with hyaline spot 



