SYNTOMIS. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
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S. symphona Swinh. ¥ has the antennae black, bifide; Irons ochreous yellow, black in the middle, symphona. 
Body black, thorax with yellow lateral stripes and similar spot on the shoulder, abdomen ringed with yellow 
on 1. and 5. segments, and a few yellow markings on the remaining segments. Forewings hyaline, veins 
heavily black, inner vein connected with median by a broad transverse band; the interspaces ochreous-yellow. 
Discocellular broadly black; terminal border narrower, broad at apex. Hindwings with black costal and outer 
margins, the latter continuing to the anal angle; the inner half of the hindwings ochreous. British North Borneo. 
S. grotei Moore (10k) has thorax and abdomen most brillantly and beautifully marked, almost like in grotei. 
polymita, but more yellowish instead of red-orange. Wings hyaline, marked as in vitrea, only the space between 
lower and middle median veins of the forewing not completely filled with black, but only in the outer half; 
also on the hindwing a spur extends from the middle of the outer margin towards the base. Hongkong, June, 
till November; South China (Yunnan) and Tenasserim. — The transverse spot extending from the middle of 
the cell through the submedian interspace has generally the shape of a broad black band; but it also maybe 
either completely absent or be reduced to a mere dot. This form is very scarce; 1 only found two specimens 
among countless normal ones near Hongkong, on the bushes fringing the race-course. 1 call it ab. arenae ab. arenae. 
nov. (10 k as arena). — Another, likewise very rare aberration has the black band extending from the middle 
of the outer margin toward the apex of the cell reduced to such an extent that only a slight knob-like widening 
of the black border indicates where it should start. This form which also is found in Hongkong, is ab. 
chimaera ab. nov. (10 k). clnmaera. 
S. masoni Moore (= davidi Pouj.) (Vol. 2, pi. 9f) has been described on p. 40, Vol. 2, since its real masoni. 
home is in the Palaearctic Begion; but it is also found in parts of India, Southern China and Tenasserim 
The wings resemble almost exactly those'of grotei , but the body is marked with brass-yellow instead of golden yellow 
S. wilemani Rothsch. Vertex black, frons white; thorax creamy-white, abdomen the same, ringed with wilemani. 
black; legs brown. Wings hyaline, delicately veined and margined with black; the blackish outer margin with 
irregular whitish submarginal spots between the veins. A deep black spot at the apex of the cell. Hindwings 
hyaline, veins smoky-black; abdominal area creamy-white. 24 mm. Tainan (Formosa). 
S. submarginalis Wkr. (10i) has the body like that of masoni , but rather brass-yellow than golden; submargi- 
abdomen altogether yellow, only finely ringed with black, the wings from termen to the median hyaline spots na ^*- 
ochreous, only occasionally clear in apical region. Sikkim, Burma. 
S. verecunda Swinh. resembles fervida (9 d), from which it differs in the prominent black subbasal spots verecunda. 
of the forewings and the hyaline interspace between veins 5 and 6, which in fervida is nearly completely filled 
with black and of different shape. Jaintra Hills. 
S. fervida Wkr. (9d), brillant golden orange, head and thorax delicately marked with black at the fervida. 
joints, abdomen finely ringed with black. Wings transparent, with narrow black termen. Costal and inner 
margins of forewing golden-yellow. Farther India. 
S. aurea Swinh. from de Khasia Hills greatly resembles the preceding one, but with heavier black aurea. 
markings; abdomen tipped with metallic green. Easy to distinguish from fervida by the interspace below the . 
median vein being divided in the middle by a black bar. 
S. aureola Swinh. (9g) resembles grotei (10k), but has the end of the abdomen black, not yellow, and on the aureola. 
hindwing the costa black instead of orange. Body very similar to that of submarginalis Wkr. (lOi). Khasia Hills. 
S. sladeni Moore (101). Thorax brillantly marked with orange, abdomen banded and tipped with orange, sladeni. 
Wings transparent, yellowish, with narrow black outer border. From apex of cell a black dash to within one 
half of the distance of the outer margin. Yunnan, Burma (Pegu), Tenasserim. 
S. connectens Rothsch. (101), resembling the former, but with body altogether orange, finely marked connecters. 
with brown. Wings quite transparent, faintly tinged with yellowish, only at apex and end ol cell somewhat 
black. Found at Bernardmyo (Burma) by Doherty. Type in Elwes Collection. 
S. elwesi Rothsch. resembles the preceding form in shape and markings of body; but the wings are elwesi. 
somewhat broader and uniform pale orange-yellow. Burma, discovered by Adamson. 
S. ochreopunctata Pagenst. has the antennae black, frons yellow, abdomen black with 6 yellow dorsal ochreo- 
and ventral spots, and 6 lateral stripes. Forewing with 4 hyaline spaces, the costa, outer and inner margin P uncta tq. 
being bordered with black, and a broad black stripe extending from the middle of the costal margin to the 
discocellulars, thence to the inner margin above veins 2 and 3, and above veins 5 and 6 to the outer margin. 
The cell and intramedian portion remain quite clear; the two other areas are each divided by a blackish vein, 
Hindwings small, hyaline, with broadly black termen, divided in the middle by a black vein. 25 mm. Described 
from a specimen in Ribbe’s Collection from Neu-Pommern. Unknown to me in natura. 
