

LEPIDOPTERA HETEKOCERA. 129 



Male. Dark green. Proboscis, palpi and legs piceous. An- 

 tennae black with yellowish tips. Head with a white dot in front- 

 Pectus with a very large white spot on each side. Fore wings limpid 

 with the exception of the borders from the base to the end of the 

 discal areolet, a little beyond which are two limpid spots, the hind 

 one larger than the fore one. Hind wings limpid along the hind 

 border for half the length and more than half the breadth. Abdo- 

 men with a white band at the base and another a little beyond the 

 middle ; under side with two white bands before the middle. Length 

 of the body 5 lines ; of the wings 14 lines. 



a. Sierra Leone. Presented by the Rev. D. F. Morgan. 



27. Syntomis simplex. 



Nigro-cyanea, proboscide palpis antennisque nigris ; antenna apice 

 albce ; pectoris abdominisque latera aureo maculata ; alee an- 

 ticce maculis sex limpidis, posticce macula discali limpida. 



Blackish blue. Proboscis, palpi and antennae black. Tips of 

 the antennae white above. Pectus with a large gilded spot on each 

 side. Fore wings with six limpid spots, one near the base, the rest 

 in two oblique lines, two on the first line before the middle, three on 

 the second near the tip in which the middle spot is occasionally ob- 

 solete. Hind wings with a limpid spot in the disk. Abdomen with 

 two gilded spots above at the base, and with a row of gilded spots 

 along each side. Length of the body «3£ — 5 lines ; of the wings 12 

 — 14 lines. 



a. Port Natal. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



b — d. ? Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



e. Congo. Presented by Sir J. Richardson. 



28. Syntomis Nostalis. 



Nigro-cyanea, proboscide palpis antennisque nigris ; antennce apice 

 albce ; abdomen maculis lateralibus auratis ; alee cyaneo-pur- 

 purece, albo guttatce. 



Syntomis Nostalis, MSS. 



Dark blue. Proboscis, palpi and antennae black, the latter with 

 white tips. Wings bluish purple. Fore wings with five small lim- 

 pid spots, one near the base, two in an oblique line before the middle, 

 and two in a hardly oblique line beyond the middle. Hind wings 



