SYNTOMIS. 73 



and large patch between median nervure and inner margin ; two 

 spots between veins 2 and 5, sometimes connected with the basal 

 patch and sometimes with the upper spot reduced or absent. 



Typical annulata is a large form, the antennae white at tips, the 

 vertex of head orange, and the spots of hind wing well separated. 



Ab. 1. A small form with the spots of hind wing small and 

 separate, the spot above vein 3 minute or absent, {a) intensa, Meyr. 

 (nee Butl.), hind wing with small spot in base of cell ; {h) phejimlotis^ 

 hind wing without spot in cell. 



Antenna) with the tips black. 



Ab. 2. With a small spot on fore wing between veins 5 and 6. 

 (a) cingulata^synedra^ abdomen with anal segment orange except 

 at base ; {h) pyrocoma, abdomen with small orange spot on anal 

 segment. 



Ab. 3. intensa = lies i)e ritis : without the spot between veins 

 5 and 6. 



Ab. 4. niyriceps : with the vertex of head black. 



Ab. 5. Hind wing with the spots conjoined, the vertex of head 

 orange. 



Ab. 6. chroma : a small form with the spots of hind wing 

 conjoined. 



Ab. 7. anejjsia : abdomen with the terminal segment wholly 

 black. 



Hah. Philippines, Samboangan (J". J. Walker) ; N. Guinea 

 {W. V. Turner); Queensland, N. S, Wales: types cinfpdata 

 (Gibbons), intensa and niyriceps (Macgillivray), (Sinclair, Waller, 

 Higlett, G. F. Mathew). ^Kip. 24-48 millim. 



99. Syntomis insularis. (Plate II. fig. 20.) 



Hydrusa visularis, Eutl. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 353 (187()) ; Kii'by, 



Cat. Het. p. lUl. 

 Hydrusa stelotis, Meyr. P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) i. p. 776 (1886) ; Kirbv, 



Oat. Het. p. 101. 



Black-brown ; head and tegula} dark orange ; antennae and a 

 band between their bases black : abdomen with seven dark orange 

 bands, the anal segment black. Fore wing with small quadrate 

 orange spot below base of cell ; an oblique quadrate spot below 

 middle of cell ; a somewhat elongate spot in end of cell ; a post- 

 medial series of four spots between veins 3 and 7, the spot above 

 vein 5 often minute. Hind wing with basal orange patch below 

 the cell ; a spot between veins 2 and 3, often conjoined to the basal 

 patch. 



Antennae very minutely serrate. 



Hah. N. Australia, Barnard I. (Macgillivray), tvpe 6 ', Queens- 

 land (G. F. Mathew), 1 d 1 $ . Exp. 28-34 millim. 



