TRICHiETA. 55 



Syntomis molanna, Wallengr. Ofv. Vet.-Akad. Forh. xxxii. (1) p. 94 

 (1876). 



Brown, with a golden tinge ; frons and patagia pale yellow ; 

 metathorax banded with yellow; abdomen with dorsal and lateral 



series of conjoined orange-yellow 

 spots, which meet towards ex- 

 tremity. Fore wing with wedge- 

 shaped hyaline patch in end of 

 cell and quadrate patch below 

 the end ; an elongate postmedial 



Fig. 21.— Trich(etafidvescens, cT . }. ^P^^ ^^^^^ 7^^^ ^ ^°^ ^^^ ^P^^^ 



between veins 3 and 5. Hind 



wing with large hyaline patch below the cell and between veins 



2 and 5, leaving the costal area brown, and a terminal band broad 



at costa, narrowing to tornus, and dentate at vein 2. 



Hab. Congo {Gun^or)^ type ; Natal (J". M. Hatcliinson, J. V. 



Gooch); Cape (A. Smith). Exp. 24-26 millim. 



^Q. Trichaeta bivittata. (riate II. fig. 2.) 

 Syntomis bivittata, Wlk. xxxi, 6(1 (1864); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 105. 



S . Black-brown ; head, tegulae, and patagia golden yellow ; 

 antennae brown ; metathorax with a yellow patch ; abdomen with 

 series of dorsal and lateral conjoined yellow spots meeting on 

 penultimate segment and a patch on anal segment. Fore wing 

 with wedge-shaped hyaline patch in end of cell and quadrate patch 

 below the cell ; an elongate postmedial spot above vein 6 and two 

 spots between veins 3 and 5. Hind wing with large hyaline patch 

 below the cell and between veins 2 and 5, leaving the costal area 

 brown, and a terminal band broad at apex, narrowing to tornus 

 and dentate at vein 2. 



Hab. SiEiiRA Leoxe, 2 S types {Mrs. Foxcroft). Exp, 

 20 millim. 



b. Abdomen smoothly scaled. 



a}. Fore wing with six hyaline spots vigorsi. 



b^. Fore wing with at, most three patches. 

 a^. Fore wing with the markings hyaline white. 

 a^. Frons and patagia white ; abdomen with 



ventral white bauds detracta. 



b^. Frons, patagia, and abdomen without 

 white. 

 a^. Abdomen with three ventral yellow 



bands trizonata. 



6'. Abdomen without ventral yellow bands. 

 a^. Fore wing with small spot below base 

 of cell. 

 a^. Fore wing with small postmedial 



hyaline spot above vein 1 albifrontalis. 



b^. Fore wing without postmedial spot 



above vein 1 basifera. 



i\ Fore wing without subbasal spot albiplaga. 



