76 CATALOGUE OF 



Male. Blackish purple. Head gilded yellow in front and 

 about the eyes on each side behind. Antennae moderately pectinated, 

 with a gilded yellow streak towards the tips above. Thorax with a 

 gilded yellow band on the fore border; scutellum and pectus gilded 

 yellow. Abdomen with six widely interrupted gilded yellow bands 

 on the hind borders of the segments; tip gilded yellow. Wings 

 with the veins gilded yellow in the limpid parts. Fore wings gilded 

 yellow at the base ; two limpid streaks extending from ihe base ; 

 first subcostal, lanceolate, hardly more than one-third of the length 

 of the wing ; second narrow, as far as the end of the second, and then 

 abruptly dilated and approaching the interior border ; two limpid 

 elongated spots ; first spot in front of the dilated part of the second 

 streak ; second transverse, in the disk nearer the tip. Hind wings 

 limpid, nearly half the length of the fore wings, with a blackish 

 purple border, which is dilated at the tips. Length of the body 

 6 lines ; of the wings 16 lines. 



Singapore. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



Syntomis ampla. 



Fcem. Purpureo-nigra ; caput antice subtusque luteum ; thorax 

 lateribus anticis scutelloque luteis ; abdomen fasciis sex inter- 

 ruptis luteis ; alee antivce vitrece, ampla?, basi lutece, margine 

 strigisque duabus purpureo-nigris ; postica maculis duabus 

 magnis, la lutea, 2a vitrea. 



Female. Purplish black. Head luteous in front and beneath. 

 Proboscis silvery at the base. Sides of the thorax in front of the 

 wings, fore border and scutellum luteous. Abdomen with six inter- 

 rupted luteous bands, which from the first to the sixth are suc- 

 cessively more contiguous to each other on each side. Fore wings 

 limpid, ample, slightly luteous at the base ; tips, borders and veins 

 purplish black ; two streaks of the same hue, one between the 

 second subcostal nervule and the first median nervule, the other 

 about twice the breadth of the first, between the third and fourth 

 median nervules, much dilated towards the border. Hind wings 

 not more than one-third of the length of the fore wings, with two 

 large spots ; first spot basal, luteous, partly limpid along its bor- 

 der ; second limpid. Length of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 

 16 lines. 



Aru. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



