LEPIDOPTEKA HETEROCERA. 77 



Syntomis LINEARIS. 



Mas. Nigro-purpurea, gracilis ; caput antice aurato-jlavum ; 

 antenna vix dentatce ; thorax margine antico, maculis duabns 

 later alibus, fascia, postica interrupta,pectorepedibusque aurato- 

 flavis ; abdomen long um, interruption, fasciis septem aurato- 

 flavis ; alee maculis aurato-fluvis ; anticce sex maculatce ; 

 posticce bimaculatce. 



Male. Blackish purple, slender. Head gilded yellow in front. 

 Antennae robust, hardly dentate. Thorax with a gilded yellow band 

 on the tore border, with a gilded yellow spot at the base of each fore 

 wing, and with an interrupted gilded yellow band behind the scu- 

 tellum. Pectus pale gilded yellow. Abdomen long, cylindrical, 

 with seven gilded yellow bands, one on the base of the first segment, 

 and one on the hind bonier of each of the six following segments. 

 Legs pale gilded yellow. Fore wings narrow, with six elongated 

 gilded yellow spots ; first spot extending from the base ; second 

 subcostal; third triangular, its fore end almost contiguous to the 

 base of the second ; fourth, fifth and sixth exterior ; fourth in front 

 of the fifth, which is only divided from the sixth by a vein. Hind 

 wings with two gilded yellow spots; one large, elongated, extending 

 from the base; second smaller, in the exterior disk. Length of the 

 body 6^ lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 



Makessar, Celebes. In Mr. Saunders' collection. 



Syntomis basigera. 



Foam. Nigra; caput antice subtusque ochraceum ; thorax mar- 

 ginibus maculaque discali ochraceis ; abdomen basi fasciisque 

 quinque ochraceis ; alee anticce vitrece, basi ochracece, margine 

 strigisque duabus purpureo-nigris ; posticce purpureo-nigrce, 

 basi ochracece, macula discali vitrea. 



Female. Black. Head ochraceous in front and beneath. 

 Proboscis ferruginous. Thorax ochraceous along the borders and 

 on the disk. Abdomen ochraceous at the base, and with five narrow 

 ochraceous bands ou the hind borders of the segments. Fore coxae 

 ochraceous. Fore wings limpid, ochraceous at the base ; tips, borders 

 and veins purplish black ; two purple-black streaks, one extending 

 from the end of the discal areolet, the other extending obliquely 

 outward from the hind border of the discal areolet. Hind wings 

 purplish black, ochraceous towards the base, with a limpid discal 



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