34 TEE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



EPISTEME NIGRIPENNIS (Plate 94, Fig. 3, ^ ). 

 Eusemia nigripennis, Butler, Annals of Nat. Hist. 1875, p. 140. 



Bluish purple-black : forewing -with a large sulpliur-yellow quadrate spot 

 obliquely across middle of the cell, and another beneath it, two smaller spots beyond 

 upper end of the cell and two beyond the lower end ; a subapical curved series of six 

 small bluish-white dentate spots ; some bluish-grey speckles at base of the wing : 

 hindwing udth two subapical and two lower small bluish- white spots; a small 

 vermilhon-red spot at anal angle. Thorax with four small sulphur-yellow spots in 

 front; lower part of abdomen beneath vermillion-:^ ed ; first and second joints of palpi 

 with a lateral white spot. 



Expanse 2^ inches. 



Family ZYGrMTSlDM. 



"Wings long, narrow. Antennse in typical genera siniple, nauch thickened 

 towards the tip ; pectinated in some. Flight diurnal. 



Larva short, fusiform, very sparsely clothed with short hairs arising from slight 

 tubercles ; in some the hairs are long and in fascicles. Pupa in a narrow densely- 

 silken cocoon. 



Subfamily SYNTOMIN^. 



Forewing without a discoidal veinlet in the cell ; one submedian vein. 



Genus SYNTOMIS. 



Syntomis, Ochsenheimer, Schmett. Eur. ii. p. 103 (1807). 

 Amata, Fabricius, Syst. Gloss. (Illiger's Mag. vi. p. 289 (1807)). 

 Coenochromia, et Eutomis, Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. pp. 121, 122 (1818-25). 



Forewing long, narrow, triangular ; first and second subcostal branches from end 

 of the cell, second four branched; discocellular bent abruptly outward near upper 

 end, concave hindward, radial from the angle ; two upper medians from lower end of 

 the cell, second at one-seventh, and first, or lower, at one-third before the end ; sub- 

 median much recurved : hindwing short ; subcostal arched in the middle ; disco- 

 cellular obliquely concave ; two upper medians from acute angle at lower end of the 

 cell, the lower median at one-fourth before the end. Body long, smooth, thorax 

 slightly pilose ; palpi pilose, laterally flat and broad ; legs long, smooth ; antennae 

 smooth, thickened in the middle. {S. Phegea.) 



SYNTOMIS GEORGINA (Plate 95, Fig. 2,S)- 

 Syntomis Georgina, Butler, Journ. Linn. See. Zool. xii. p. 345 (1875). 

 Purple-brown : forewing with a small hyaline yellowish-white spot at the base 

 below the cell, a large quadrate spot below end of the cell, a triangular spot at end of 



