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*27. Ceryx resecta. 



Syntomis reseda, Herr.-ScbJiff. Aussereur. Schinett. f. 269 (1855) ; Kirbj, 

 Cat. Het. p. 94. 



6 . Black tinged with dark green ; abdomen with yellow seg- 

 mental lines on 4th, 5th, and 6th segments. Fore wing with small 

 hyaline spot below base of cell ; a transverse linear spot below base 

 of vein 2; a quadrate spot in end of cell; spots between veins '6 

 and 5, and a small spot above 6. Hind wing with small spot below 

 the cell and spot between veins 2 and 5. 



Hah. S. Africa. Exp. 34 millim. 1 S type t in Coll. Staud- 

 inger ; no trace of the yellow bands on abdomen is to be seen, but 

 it is much rubbed. 



28. Ceryx semicincta. (Plate I. fig. 16.) 



Syntomoides semicmcta, Hmpsn. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1895, p. 282 ; and Moths 

 Iiid, iv. p. 455. 



(S . Black shot with green ; frons dirty white or yellow ; antennae 

 white at tips; tegula3 with orange patches; tarsi with the 1st 

 joint white; abdomen with basal orange band, sometimes incom- 

 plete above ; lateral yellow spots on medial segments and baud on 

 5th segment. Fore wing with wedge-shaped hyaline patch iu cell ; 

 a large elongate patch below the cell and vein 2 ; and six patches in 

 the interspaces of outer area, the patch between veins 5 and 6 

 narrow and lanceolate. Hind wing hyaline ; the veins and margins 

 black. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with elliptical spot in end of cell ; the spots 

 above veins 2 and 7 absent; the spots above veins 3, 4, and 7 

 small, round, and placed towards termen. — Malacca. Coll. Staud- 

 inger. 



Ab. 2. Abdomen with the 4th segment sometimes fringed with 

 orange ; fore wing with the spots in cell quadrate, the spots above 

 veins 2 and 7 absent in male, much reduced iu female, the streak 

 above vein 5 absent or minute. — Borneo, Kina Balu. Coll. Staud- 

 iuger. 



Hah. Tenasserim, Donaut Hills, type $ {L. de Niceuille) ; 

 Malacca ; Borneo. Exp. 42 millim. 



29. Ceryx godarti. 



Syntomis godarti, Boisd. Mon. Zvg. p. 115, pi. 7. f. 3 (1829); Hmpsn. 



Motlis Ind. i. p. 210 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 92. 

 Syntomis libera, Wlk. xxxi. 78 (1864) ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 92. 

 Syntomis fytckei,Moove, P. Z.S. 1871, p. 246, pi. 18. f. 3; Kirby, Cat. 



Het. p. 91. 

 Syntomis cupreipennis, Butl. Journ, Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 347 (1876) ; 

 ' Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 92. 



Frons yellowish or dirty white ; collar orange ; metathorax with 

 an orange band ; tarsi banded with white ; abdomen with orange 



