PSICHOTOE; CALLITOMIS; CERYX. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
1. Genus: I^sichotoe Bsd. 
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Only one species from continental India and a second from Africa belong to this Genus. The Genus 
is easily seperated from most other Syntomidae through the total absence of the tongue; the abdomen which 
otherwise is always round, is flat with tufts of coarse hair. The wings are comparatively small, half transparent, 
rather hairy than scaled; the forewings triangular. The neuration of the two species included here is fairly 
aberrant. The moths swarm, not unlike flies, in the grass and sit on leaves, but do not visit'flowers as they 
are tongueless. 
P. duvauceli Bsd. (10 a). Smoky blackish brown with yellow rings at the base of the abdomen and duvauceli. 
on the 5 th abdominal segement. North India from Kurachi in the west to Assam and Burmah, on dry localities: 
apparently fairly local. 
2. Genus: ('ailhomiK Btlr. 
These insects have the same shape as Dysauxes, but the abdomen is more slender. It is seperated 
from the former Genus on account of the fully developed tongue and the more pointed forewings. On the 
forewings all five subcostal nervures have a common stalk. Further del ails about this family, of which two 
forms occur in the palaearctic area may be found Vol. 2, p. 41. 
C. multifasciata Hmps. (10 a), Very like leucosoma figured in Vol. 2, pi. 9h, but the abdomen not as 
in the latter yellow, with fine black segmental divisions, but on the contrary blackish brown with very fine 
yellow rings. Eastern Himilayas, Sikkim and the Naga Hills in Assam. Up to the present only found in hilly 
country. Type in the Elwes collection. 
multifas¬ 
ciata. 
C. syntomoides Btlr. Very like the former species, but easily distinguished as the abdomen like the syntomoides 
European S. phegea is dark and only ringed with yellow at the base and on the fifth segment. More common 
in the palaearctic Himilayas but extending into the Indian territory. See Vol. 2, p. 41. 
C. gigas Rothsch. (10 a). Much larger than the former, all the wings more pointed, the ground color gigas. 
duller, the white spots not so bright and their borders indistinct, a costal streak on the forewings and the 
anal border of the hindwings pale clay yellow; body also pale yellow ochre, the abdomen finely but sharply 
ringed with black. North Luzon, discovered by Whitehead; type in the Tring Museum. 
C. fruhstorferi Hmps. (10 a). Much smaller, but in general appearance resembles the former. Forewings fruhstorferi. 
half transparent smoky brown black; abdomen blackish brown, finely ringed with yellow. Bua-Krang in the 
Southern Celebes, 5000 ft high, discovered by H. Fruhstorfer. 
C. distorta Rothsch. (10 a). Larger than fruhstorferi, but the wings not so transparent, but dark sepia distorta. 
brown, forehead, collar, and very fine abdominal rings at the segemental divisions orange yellow. On Pulo- 
Bisa an island north of Obi, discovered by Doherty in September. 
C. dohertyi Hmps. (10a). Wings much broader than in the former species, especially the hindwings dohertyi. 
are larger, colored dull smoky brown and without markings; abdomen almost entirely yellow, only the base 
and end brown. From Java at an altitude of 3—8000 ft discovered by Doherty. 
3. Genus: Ceryx Wallgr. 
Recognizable on account of the extreme reduction of the neuration of the hindwings (see Vol. 2., p. 41); 
otherwise nearly related to Syntomis. Many species are very small and delicately built and resemble in flight 
small wasps or gnats. The spotting of the forewings, mostly yellow or transparent, is often very inconstant. 
Most species are met with singly; with the exception of one species which penetrates into the palaearctic region; the 
Genus is spread besides over the greater portion of the Indo-australasian region also over a portion of Africa. 
C. flaviplagia Hmps. (10 a b). Body and wings yellow spotted, the forehead, shoulder plates, a streak flaviplagia. 
down the centre of the thorax, the sides of the collar, a cross-spot on the metathorax, a row of transverse 
spots along the back of the abdomen, side spots on the brest and abdomen six forewing and two hindwing 
spots dull orange yellow ; the spots on the forewings are sometimes transparent in the centre. Mindanao. 
C. pleurosticta Hmps. Smaller than the former; along the middle of the abdomen runs a black band, pleurosticta. 
so that the yellow transverse spots are divided into two rows os lateral spots. Moreover on the thorax, in 
place of the central yellow transverse spot, there are two small spots. The forewing spots smaller, hyaline 
and only five in number. From Sandakan (Borneo). 
