EUCHllOMIA. — SYNTOMEIDA. 305 



674. Euchromia magna, 



Syntomis marina, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1891, p. 133, pi. 8. f . 1 ; Hmpsn. 

 Moths Ind. i. p. 227 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 901. 



Black with a slight purplish gloss ; antennae white at tips ; white 

 patches on sides of thorax and fore coxae ; abdomen with orange 

 bands on basal and 4th segments. Fore wing with hyaline spot 

 below base of cell ; a spot in cell and patch below it ; a spot above 

 vein 6 and two between veins 3 and 5. Hind wing with hyaline 

 patches at base, in and below cell, and on inner area ; an irregular 

 oblique band beyond the cell between veins 7 and 2. 



Hah. N. Canara, type; Ceylon, Trincomali {Yerhuynj). Eccp, 

 40-44 millim. 



Genus SYNTOMEIDA. 



Type. 



Syntomeida, Harris, Am. J. Sci. xxxvi. p. 316 (1839) ipomea. 



Hippola, Wlk. i. 222 (1854) ipomece. 



Proboscis well developed ; palpi upturned, hardly reaching vertex of head, the 

 1st joint clothed with long hair; antennce bipectinate, with moderate branches 

 dilated at extremity, shorter in female, the shaft thickened beyond middle, 

 especially in female ; tibife with the spurs short. Fore wing long and narrow ; 

 vein 3 from close to angle of cell ; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 

 9, 10, and often 11, stalked. Hind wing with the,cell moderate ; veins 2 and 4 

 shortly stalked; 3 from 2 just before margin; 5 absent; 6, 7 from upper 

 angle. 



Sect. I. Abdomen of male with ventral valve covering basal segments. 



A. Abdomen with paired orange subdorsal patches on 1st, 4th, 



and 5th segments, the anal tuft orange joda. 



B. Abdomen with orange bauds on each segment melanthus. 



C. Abdomen without orange markings. 



a. Fore wing with oblique postmedial series of spots syntomoides, 



b. Fore wing without postmedial spots vulcana. 



*67o. Syntomeida joda. 



Syntomedia joda, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Am., Het. ii. p. 333, pi. 71. 

 f. 15 (1897). 



(S . Head and thorax blue-black ; vertex of head with metallic 

 blue patch ; tegulae and patagia orange-yellow edged with black ; 

 fore coxae with orange and white patches ; legs streaked with white ; 

 abdomen black and silvery blue ; orange subdorsal patches on 1st, 

 4th, and 5th segments ; the ventral valve, a medial patch, and the 

 anal tuft orange ; wings black. Fore wing with a yellowish- 

 white patch in and below middle of cell and a patch beyond the cell 

 between veins 7 and 3. Hind wing with a yellowish-white patch 

 on inner area below the cell and another beyond the cell. 



Fore wing with vein 11 from the cell. 



Hah. Mexico, Guadalajara (Schaus), 1 cJ • Ea^i). 38 millim. 

 Type t in Coll. Schaus. 



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