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the cell, a small contiguous spot above and another below the latter — the upper and 

 sometimes the lower being obsolete ; three subapical spots — the upper small, the 

 lower geminated : hindwing with a large quadrate hyaline white basal spot below the 

 cell, and a small spot below its end. Collar and two bands on abdomen ochreous- 

 yellow ; tip of antennae, and first joint of tarsi whitish. 

 Expanse 1 to 1\ inch. 



SYNTOMIS CYSSEOIDES (Plate 95, Fig. 1, s). 



Syntomis Cysseoides, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. xii. p. 346 (1875). 



Similar to >S'. Georgina : forewing with a hyaline white basal spot, two medial 

 and three apical spots, the basal and upper apical largest, the lower apical smallest : 

 hindwing with the outer spot widely separated from the basal. In the female these 

 spots are also larger, this sex also showing a very small spot below the cell. 



Expanse 1 to If inch. 



SYNTOMIS ARTINA (Plate 94, Fig. 4,cJ). 

 Syntomis Artina, Butler, Journ. Linn. Soc. Zool. xii. p. 347 (1875). 



Purple-brown : forewing with a hyaline lengthened spot in middle of the cell, a 

 small spot beneath it, an oblique spot above submedian, a conjoined spot on middle 

 of the disc, and two above near the costa : hindwing with a small hyaline spot at end 

 of the cell, one beyond it, and a large one below the cellj all conjoined. Front of 

 head, collar, and two bands on the abdomen yellow. 



Expanse, $ 1; '? If inch. 



SYNTOMIS PASSALfS. 



Zyymia Passalis, Fabricius, Spec. Ins. ii. p. 159 (1781). 



Syntomis Creusa, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. pi. 2^8, fig. F ; Boisduval, Monogr. Zyg. p. 121, pi. 7, 



fig. 7; Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. i. p. 123 (nee Linn.).* 

 Syntomis Latreillei, Boisduval, I. c. p. 117, pi. 7, fig. 5, ? (1829). 



Male and female glossy greenish purple-black: forewing with a small hyaline 

 white spot near the base below the cell, a larger obHque spot beyond, one at end of 

 the cell, two on middle of the disc, the upper one being minute in the male, and a 

 single spot near the costa above ; at base of the wing is a slight golden-yellow streak : 

 hindwing with a single hyaline spot between middle and lower medians, this spot 

 being very small in the male. Body metalhc-blue ; two golden-yellow streaks on 

 middle of thorax, and a similar band on each segment of abdomen. 



Expanse, $ If, ? If inch. 



" Colombo. In gardens. Generally found hanging to the leaves of the 

 Bamboo." [Hutchison.) 



* LinuEBus' Sphinx Creusa (Clerck, Icones, pi. 46, fig. 5) is a species of Eilchroinia=£. inis, Cram. 

 pi. 368, fig. o. 



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