60 "^ Mr. H. Campion on 



Meso-metathorax metallic chocolate-brown, with some 

 greenish reflections laterally ; tlie mid-dorsal carina yellow ; 

 on each side a broad, uninterrupted, creamy stripe, enclosing 

 the metastigma ; another broad creamy stripe crossing the 

 metepimeron. 



Wings (PL IX. fig. 15) strongly tinged with brown, 

 especially at the tips. Costa black anteriorly, with traces 

 of pale dorsal spot at base; other veins likewise black. 

 Pterostigma 4 mm. long, dark reddish brown, weakly braced. 

 Membranule of hind wing long, brownish. Antenodals of 

 the costal series ^^2' Postnodals ~^. Cross-veins in 

 median space ^ ; in cubito-anal space ~ ; in su|)ertriangle 

 '-'l ; and in bridge space |^. Arculus slightly bowed to- 

 wards base of wing, arising between third and fourth 

 antenodals. Discoidal area in fore wings commencing with 

 three or four cells, followed by two rows of cells as far as 

 the level of base of bridge. Discoidal area in hind wings 

 first with one or two large cells, and then with about four 

 double cells, before the multiplied rows of cells begin. 

 Anal loop in hind wing double ; the primary (distal) 

 enclosure containing nine cells, and the secondary (proximal) 

 enclosure four to six cells. 



Legs black ; femora of fore legs creamy below. 

 Abdomen a little dilated at segments 5 and 6, black, with 

 segments 2-7 with dark yellow markings as follows : — On 

 2 a narrow basal edging, connected, laterally with a pair of 

 oblique lines, broad below, and ending in an acute point 

 before reaching the mid-dorsal carina near the middle ; 

 on 3-7 a pair of basal spots, forming more or less of a ring, 

 and a pair of somewhat rounded spots near the middle, 

 becoming progressively smaller, more transversely linear, 

 and more retracted towards the base of the segment. 



Anal appendages nearly 4 mm. long, sublauceolate, 

 yellowish, except at the base, where they are black. 

 [Ovipositor eaten away, apparently by mites.] 

 An example of the " freak "-venation which is rife in Syn- 

 themis and its allies occurs in the right hind wing. Not 

 only are the sectors of the arculus widely separated at their 

 origin, but the triangle is an exaggeration of what occurs 

 normally in, e. g., Sympetruin. That is to say, the cross-vein 

 which closes the triangle above takes a downward course, 

 and attaches itself to the distal cross-vein at about t\vo- 

 thirds of the lieight of the latter, instead of at its summit. 

 A corresponding aberration in the fore wing has been 



