SYNTOMIS. By Dr. A. Seitz. 73 
S. pseudextensa Rothsch. (lib) resembles the former in the arrangement of the confluent hyaline spots, 
ut has the wings differently shaped, transparent with very narrow grey-brown border. Smaller in size than 
extensa; from Kina Balu in North Borneo. 
S. pryeri Hmps. (lib). This curious species has, in contradistinction to the preceding, the outer half 
of the forewings hyaline throughout, the inner half and the hindwings black brown, spotted with orange. 
Collar and 5. ring orange. From North-East Borneo. 
S. cantori Moore described from a ? without antennae from Penang. Dark black-green, basal half of 
forewing black with green lustre; outer half hyaline, apex and discocellular black; hindwing with small hyaline 
spot at the base of rib 2 and 3. Somewhat larger than the preceding. 
S. albifrons Moore (9d), one of the largest Syntomidae, resembling an Euchromia in shape and lustre 
of body. Abdomen black with brillant blue lustre and dull yellow rings, thorax with ivory-white longitudinal 
stripes. Basal area of wings largely hyaline, terminal area of forewings with a band of hyaline spots reaching 
the upper median vein. Farther India. 
S. arfakensis Rothscli. Head orange, thorax black, tegulae orange, on the mesothorax an orange spot. 
Abdomen orange, ringed with blackish-olive. Forewings dark olive, with bronce-green lustre, and 6 trans¬ 
lucent white spots in and behind the cell, 2 below it and 1 each above and below vein 3. Hindwing with 
large similar spot near base and beyond cell, and with some small spots inside it. 22 mm. New Guinea, taken 
in February and March in the Arfak Mountains. 
S. melas Wkr. (= melaena Hmps., andersoni Moore ) (9g). The name ”melaena“ was an unnecessary 
change, since ’Melas‘ is also a proper name (Son of Phryxus). It is one of the lightest coloured Syntomidae , 
the body being spotted with pale ochreous or golden-yellow, the wings hyaline throughout with the exception of 
the narrow borders and a spot at the apex of the cell. It is one of the largest species of the family and 
easily recognized by its shape. Occurs throughout Northern India from Nepal to Assam and Yunnan. 
S. flavolavata Rothsch. resembles the former, but generally of smaller size, easy to distinguish by having 
the antennae not tipped with white, and the last abdominal segment ochreous throughout, not blackish. From 
the Khasia Hills. 
S. derivata Wkr. (lib). Body black, abdomen with bine metallic lustre; forewing with 6 white spots 
arranged somewhat like in fenestrata Drury and not infrequently confluent. Abdomen with narrow, pale ring 
at the base. Collar whitish. From Malacca, Sumatra and Borneo. Most specimens have the submedian spot 
and that on the hindwing divided into two. 
S. fenestrata Wkr. (= midas Btlr.) (lib) has on the forewing the spots arranged as in the preceding, 
but those at the base yellow. Head and abdomen orange, thorax marked with yellow. Cambodja. 
S. wallacei Moore (9d) has head and thorax marked with yellow, abdomen with 7 orange rings. Fore¬ 
wings with small, translucent, yellow spots; hindwings with a hyaline spot below the cell, tinged with orange 
at the inner margin. Behind this another smaller hyaline spot. Collar yellow. From Java. 
S. eliza Btlr. (11 b). Thorax marked with yellow, abdomen with yellow ring only on segments 1 and 5, 
the intervening segments only laterally spotted with yellow. Wings with pretty small, white, rather angular 
spots. Differs from the preceding species in the absence of the orange rings on segments 2, 3, 0 and 7. 
S. pectoralis Wkr. (= basirufa Sivinh.) (9e) has the basal area of the forewing and the entire hind¬ 
wing hyaline, and in the black-brown apical half of the forewings two large transparent spots, each intersected 
by a vein. The species is easily recognized by the white patagia and the purple-red ring at the base of the 
abdomen which otherwise is blackish-blue. Farther India, Burma and Cambodja. 
S. thoracica Moore (lib), inferior in size to the preceding form from which it differs in having the 
forehead and patagia black instead of silvery-white. On the forewing the hyaline spots are larger and frequently 
also increased in number, in consequence of which they form in the outer half a complete row, as is seen 
in the figure which represents a specimen taken by me in March in Peradeniya (Ceylon). Apparently limited 
to Ceylon and not common. 
S. phoenicozona Hmps. (lie) from the Andamans has the white spots distinct only in the median area, 
those in and under the cell of the forewing very large; besides the ring at the base of the abdomen also the 
metathorax is purple. 
S. metaphaea Hmps. (lie), just as small as the preceding species, all the hyaline spots small excepting 
the one in the cell. Abdomen marked with brillant golden-red rings. Milne Bay, New Guinea. 
pseudex¬ 
tensa. 
pryeri- 
cantori. 
albifrons. 
arfakensis. 
melas. 
flavolavata. 
derivata. 
fenestrata. 
wallacei. 
eliza. 
pectoralis. 
thoracica. 
phoenico- 
zona. 
metaphaea. 
