130 LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 



with spots in a small oblique line beyond the middle. Abdomen 

 with a gilded spot at the base and with three gilded spots on each 

 side. Length of the body 5 — 5£ lines ; of the wings 13 — 14 lines. 



Var. @. Spots on the fore wings very small, two of them very 

 indistinct. 



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



b. Port Natal. From M. Becker's collection. 



29. Syntomis terminalis. 



Nigra aut nigro-viridis ; abdomen apice fulvum ; alee limpida? 

 nigro marginatce, anticce nigro unifasciatce. 



Described from two injured specimens. Black (or blackish 

 green ?). Wings limpid ; tips, borders, and most of the borders of the 

 veins black ; a black band dilated hindward across the middle of each 

 fore wing. Hind wings wholly limpid in the disk and along the 

 basal part of the hind border. Tip of the abdomen tawny. Length 

 of the body 4i — 5 lines ; of the wings 15 — 16 lines. 



a. Congo. Presented by Sir J. Richardson. 

 b. ? Presented by E. Doubleday, Esq. 



30. Syntomis marginalis. 



Nigro-viridis, luteo fiavoque varia ; alee anticce e maculis limpidis 

 bifasciatce, posticce guttis quatuor limpidis, gutta strigaque 

 fiavis. 



Dark green. Head yellow in front. Prothorax with a yellow 

 spot on each side. Mesothorax with two larger luteous spots, one 

 at the base of each fore wing. Fore wings with a limpid dot near 

 the base and another near the tip, and with five limpid spots forming 

 two upright bands in the disk ; first band composed of two spots far 

 apart, second of three spots, the hinder two only divided by a hardly 

 clouded vein. Hind wings with a yellow streak in front, and with a 

 yellow dot at the hinder base, and with four limpid dots, one near 

 the yellow dot, one near the yellow streak, and two near the hind 

 border towards the tip, one of them very small. Abdomen with six 

 short luteous bands on each side ; under side with a short broad 

 luteous stripe on the disk. Coxae luteous on one side ; femora and 

 tibiae with slight luteous streaks. Length of the body 8 lines ; of 

 the wings 21 lines. 



a. Ashanti. From the collection of the Wesleyan Missionary 

 Society. 



