COLLECTED AT SARAWAK. 



87 



rnaculisque tribus punctoque sulphureis, posticis basi luteis macula 

 exteriore sulphurea. 

 Male. Reddish black. Head with a broad sulphur stripe which extends 

 over the fore part of the palpi. Thorax with a w hite stripe. Abdomen 

 and legs luteous, the former with a black stripe towards the base and 

 a black apical spot. Fore wings with irregular and interrupted metallic 

 blue transverse lines and with three sulphur spots; middle spot 

 second in size, and having in front of it a sulphur point. Hind wings 

 bright luteous for somewhat less than half the surface from the base, 

 and with a large exterior sulphur spot. Length of the body 7 lines ; 

 of the wings 1 6 lines. 



Gen. Ph^goeista, Boisd. 



21. Ph^egorista catacoloides, n. s. Mas. Rufescenti-fusca, 

 subtus lutea, abdomine luteo apice fusco, alis anticis purpurascente 

 suffusis albo conspersis fascia exteriore lata venis annulisque duobus 

 albis necnon maculis subtus duabus subquadratis albis lineaque submar- 

 ginali interrupta nivea, posticis luteis gutta discali margineque fuscis. 



Male. Reddish brown, luteous beneath. Head in front aud palpi blackish ; 

 3rd joint of the palpi less than half the length of the 2nd. Abdomen 

 luteous, brown at the tip. Fore wings more reddish than the thorax, 

 partly tinged with purplish, irregularly white- speckled, with a broad 

 exterior speckled white band which emits two oblique white streaks to 

 the interior border, and is accompanied along its exterior side by two 

 slightly undulating white lines ; the dark line which divides the inner 

 white line from the band is bent hindward across the band; veins 

 white ; two white discal ringlets, the outer side of the exterior one 

 formed by the band ; an irregular and much-interrupted submarginal 

 white line, which has not the yellowish tinge of the band and of the 

 speckles ; underside with two subquadrate discal white spots, separated 

 by a space which corresponds with the interior ringlet above. Hind 

 wings bright luteous, with a brown discal dot, and with a cupreous 

 brown border which is broadest in front. Length of the body 8 lines ; 

 of the wings 20 lines. 



Fam. ZYGiENIDJE, Leach. 



Gen. Syistomis, Ochs. 



22. Syntomis Schcenherri, Boisd. Mon. Zyg. 112, pi./, fig. 1. 

 Inhabits also Hindostan and Ceylon. 



23. Syntomis tetragonaria, n. s. Mas et F&m. Purpurascenti- 

 nigra, capite antico luteo, thorace fasciis tribus strigisque duabus 

 luteis, abdomine fasciis quatuor luteis, alis anticis maculis qumque luteis 

 quadratis plus minusve elongatis, posticis macula lutea magna basali 

 elongata postice incisa. 



Male. Purplish black. Head luteous in front. Thorax with three luteous 



