LEPIDOPTERA. 927 



Male am,d female. -Win^^ hyaline, veins bluish-black ; body black, with orange- 

 yellow bands : fore-wing with the costa, exterior and posterior margins black ; space 

 between the sub-median vein and posterior margin pale yellow; a broad transverse 

 discoceUular black quadrate spot, which is recui-ved outwards : hind-wing with the 

 anterior border pale yellow, and having a smaU discoidal black spot; apex and 

 extenor margin black ; posterior margm tinged with yellow. Spot on front of head, 

 coxae, legs above, and band on each segment of abdomen beneath white. Collar 

 round thorax, tegulge, spots on thorax, and band on each segment of abdomen 

 above orange-yellow; tip of abdomen in male purplish-black, in female yeUowish- 

 grey. Proboscis, palpi, antennae, and legs beneath black; the antennse tipped with 

 white. 



Expanse, $ l-j^, ? If inch. 



Syntomis sladeni, Moore, Plate LXXXI, fig. 8. 



Syntomis sladeni, Moore, Proc. Zool. See, 1871, p. 245, pi. xviii, fig. 5. 



^em«Ze.— Wings hyaline, veins jet-black ; body black, with orange-yellow bands : 

 fore-wing with a jet-black costal border of exterior and posterior margins, a narrow 

 longitudinal streak extending from the discoceUular vein half-way across the disk ; 

 veins at the base of wing tinged with orange-yellow : hind- wing with a narrow jet- 

 black border extending all round, with a short curved streak extending upward 

 from middle of the exterior margin. Proboscis, palpi, antennae, and eyes black. 

 Legs black beneath, whitish above. Spot on front of head, collar round thorax, 

 streak on tegulae, spots on thorax above and beneath, streak on coxae, and band on 

 each segment of abdomen deep orange-yellow. 



Expanse, 1^ inch. 



Syntomis atkinsoni, Moore, Plate LXXXI, fig. 5. 



Syntomis atkinsoni, Moore, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1871, p. 245, pi. xviii, fig. 2. 



Male and female. — Bluish-black, body with a slight purplish tinge : fore-wing 

 with seven transparent spots, the first near the base, small, rounded, the second 

 occupying the anterior portion of the cell, the third below the cell and extending 

 obliquely to near the posterior angle, the fourth and fifth divided by the first or 

 upper median veinlet, the sixth and seventh divided by the lower subcostal veinlet, 

 the latter spot being very small : hind-wing with a sub-basal transparent spot 

 extending to the extreme abdominal margin, where it is tinged with yellow. Head 

 in front and coxae yellowish- white ; spot at base of abdomen above, and a band 

 extending round the abdomen orange-yellow ; and anal tuft in female yellowish- 

 white. Proboscis, palpi, antennae, and legs black ; tarsi whitish ; antennae tipped 

 with white. 



Expanse, S ly^j ? li "ich. 



