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SYNTOMIS. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
owstoni. 
tetrazonata. 
palanana. 
pentazo- 
nata. 
gelatina. 
basigera. 
gilolensis. 
sim illima. 
tunneyi. 
chlorometis. 
passalis. 
montana. 
aurofas- 
ciata. 
extensa. 
S. owstoni Rothsch. Thorax black, with orange collar, abdomen yellow, broadly ringed with fuscous. 
Forewing dark brown, cell hyaline, two large hyaline spots between median and vein 1, others above veins 
2, 3, 4 and 6. Of the hindwings 4 / 5 are transparent, the remainder fuscous. Collected in Annam during 
November and December by Fruhstorfer; known also from Hainan. 
S. tetrazonata Hmps. (101) resembles in colouring and spotting of wings almost completely S. cingulata 
(Vol. 2, pi. 9d); but whereas this has only two orange rings on the 1. and 5. segments, tetrazonata has the 
abdomen from 1. to 4. segments entirely orange, black beyond; moreover, it has the collar yellow. Its home 
is Formosa, where it replaces cingulata that does not seem to occur there. Although the two forms are closely 
related, they are here separated, because for clearness, sake we group the species according to the colouring 
of the abdomen. 
S. palanana Semp. (9f), spotted like the preceding, but the apical spot more elongate; easily distinguished 
by the body being almost completely fuscous, hardly at all marked with yellow. North-Eastern Luzon. 
S. penfazonata Hmps. (101) resembles cingulata even more than does tetrazonata , the rings on the 1. 
and 5. segments being heavy, the intermediate ones quite fine. But on the forewings the hyaline spots are 
larger, on the hindwing there appears behind the large basal spot another second one, slightly separated 
therefrom. Burma. 
S. gelatina Hmps. (101) is one of the smaller species; collar, 1. and 5. segments orange, the other ones 
laterally delicately spotted with yellow. Wings transparent, bordered with black, heaviest at the apex of 
forewing. At the end of the cell a deep black spot, connected with the outer margin by a streak to the apex. 
1 took a number of specimens in March in the Tiger Mountains (Nilgiris) near Utacamund, at considerable elevations. 
S. basigera Wkr. (101). Thorax marked with yellow, abdomen black, quite finely ringed with orange. 
Forewings transparent, costal margin and apex black, two heavy black dashes from the basal portion of the 
cell and from its apex to the outer margin; the lower reaching it above the anal angle, the upper one below 
the apex. Hindwings all but the black-bordered apex brillant orange, before the black apex transparent, whereby 
the species is easily distinguished. Batjan, discovered by Wallace. — gilolensis Rothsch. (11 g) is much 
smaller, and the hindwings which have been reduced almost to mere scales, display no hyaline spots before 
the black apex, or only faint traces thereof. Halmaheira. 
S. simillima Rothsch. resembles the preceding species, but is larger, The hyaline spots are larger and 
more densely squamate, and there is between veins 6 and 7 another spot not found in basigera. Hindwings 
have only the base orange and two quite narrow streaks below and behind the cell. Pulo-Bisa, to the north 
of the island of Obi. Described from a ? in the Tring Museum, taken by Doherty in September. 
S. tunneyi Rothsch. (101), a most curious form. Forewings broad and blunt, dull hyaline with black 
transverse spot at the apex of the cell and near the base. Hindwings orange, bordered with black. Discovered 
by Tunney in January, in the Derby District of Western Australia. Type in the Tring-Museum. Antennae 
long pectinate. 
S. chlorometis Meyr. (11a) rather closely corresponds to tunneyi in markings, size and shape, but has 
the wings hyaline instead of orange-yellow. New South Wales and Queensland. 
S. passalis F. (= cerbera Sulz. nec L., creusa Cr., latreillii Bscl.) (11a) is one of the largest, most 
remarkable and ordinary Indian Syntomis, the commonest species in the gardens of Colombo. Black, body 
with metallic lustre, abdominal segments with narrow bands of orange. Forewings with 5 large round trans¬ 
parent. spots, between and about which frequently a number of smaller hyaline dots. — At Kandy in the interior 
of the island I took a few isolated specimens of ab. montana Btlr. (11a), distinguished by the broader orange 
belts of the abdomen, the larger hyaline spots on the forewing and the increased spots on the hindwings which 
unite into two elongate patches. Ceylon and Southern India; flies probably throughout the year. 
S. aurofasciata Swinh. Equals in size passalis, which it also resembles in having the body black and 
of a metallic iridescence. Abdomen with coppery rufous bands on segments 1—5, and traces of the same 
on segment 6. Forewing with hyaline spot below the base of the cell, followed by an oblique hyaline bar 
below vein 2, a wedge-shaped spot near the apex of the cell, an elongate stripe above vein 6, and two spots 
between 3 and 5. Hindwing with hyaline spot below the base of the cell and another spot between 2 and 5. 
From New Guinea. Unknown to me in natura. 
S. extensa Wkr. (11a) is one of the largest Syntomis , having the hyaline spots arranged in the shape 
of a band running parallel to the outer margin. Body and outer half of the wings to the with of 3—4 mm 
dirty grey-brown, thorax and abdomen with traces of yellow markings and rings. India, Bombay, Matheran. 
1 took one specimen at a high altitude on the Nilgiri Table-land. It seems fairly scarce and not to occur 
in Ceylon. Flies near Utacamund in March. 
