STNTOMIS. Qo 



coxae and legs with white patclies ; abdomen with six orange bands, 

 the extremity black. Fore wing with wedge-shaped hyaline patch 

 in end of cell ; an elongate patch below middle of cell ; elliptical 

 spots above veins 3 and 4, an elongate spot above vein C) and small 

 spot above 7. Hind wing with hyaline patch below the cell and 

 two spots between veins 2 and 5. 



Ilab. China, Kiukiang. Exp. 50 milUm. Typet in Coll. Leech. 



81. Syntomis wuka. (Plate II. fig. 10.) 



8ynto7nis wuka, Pag. Jahrb. Nass. Ver. xxxix. p, 119 (1886); Kirby, Cat. 

 Het. p. 92. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen deep metallic blue : palpi, frons, 

 neck, and legs orange ; abdomen with orange dorsal patch on 1st 

 segment ; wings purplish black. Fore wing with* quadrate hya- 

 line patch in end of cell ; a small spot below base and another 

 below middle of cell ; two spots beyond the cell between veins 

 3 and 5, and one above 6. Hind wing with hyaline spot between 

 veins 2 and 3, usually with a point below vein 2 and often one 

 above 3. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing with the spot below the middle of cell and 

 those beyond it obsolescent or obsolete. 



Hah. N. Guinea, Kei Isl., 1 (S . Exp., cS 26, 2 30 millim. 



Subsp. 1. tiandcB, Stgr., ined. Tarsi dark ; abdomen without the 

 orange dorsal patch. 



Hah. N. Guinea, Trobriand Is. 



82. Syntomis goodi. (Plate II. fig. 18.) 



Syntomis goodii, Holland, Psyche, vi. p. 376 (189.3). 

 Sy?itomis retdlingeri, Holland, Psyche, vi. p. 376 (1893). 



S . Blue-black; antennae with the tips white ; frons with white 

 marks ; coxae white ; fore and mid femora and first joint of tarsi 

 white in front : abdomen whitish below except towards extremity. 

 Fore wing with small wedge-sliaped hyaline spot in cell ; a tri- 

 angular patch below basal half of cell, and spots between veins 3 

 and 5 and above 6. Hind wing with hyaline patch below the cell 

 and vein 2 confluent with a spot above vein 2 and point above 3. 

 Underside suffused with metallic blue. 



5 . Fore coxae black ; fore wing with the hynline spots beyond 

 cell and hind wing with the hyaline patch more extensive. 



Ab. 1. reutlinf/eri. 2 • ^^re wing with the lower edge of patch 

 below cell extending more towards tornus ; the spots in cell and 

 between veins 3 and 5 and above 6 more elongate ; a small spot 

 above 7 ; hind wing with the hyaline area more extensive, leaving 

 a narrow terminal band ; underside blue-black. 



Hah. W. Afeica, Ogove R., typet 6 ; Gaboon, type t 2 ^^w«- 

 lingeri (Good) in Coll. Holland. Exp., d 28, $ 30 mUlim. 



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