Pnbl. 16. III. 1913. 
SYNTOMIS. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
S. prosomoea Turn, resembles humeralis (lie); head black, scaled with ochreous; antennae not white prosomoea 
at tips. Thorax and patagia spotted orange behind; abdomen with 7 (c?) or 6 (?) ochreous rings, anal tuft 
of cf ochre-yellow, black at the sides. Forewings heavily scaled; spots pretty small, pale ochreous, occasionally 
increasing in number, those on hindwing separated or confluent. The species is quite variable, and since the 
corresponding aberrations of other species received special names, the principal forms also of this species 
should be separated — ab. chrysocephala ab. nov. has the head golden-yellow instead of black; — ab- ^jlff a ° ce ' 
aureicauda ab. nov. has the sides of the anal tuft yellow instead of black, and ab. dorsatrum ab. nov. the aureicauda 
patagia black instead of yellow. Queensland (Rockhampton, Brisbane.) clorsairum 
S. leucactna Meiyr. This species with which I am unacquainted and which 1 doubt to be represented leucacma. 
in European collections, has the head orange with a dark line between the base of the antennae. Thorax 
with orange spot behind; abdomen with 5 orange rings and dark, slightly iridescent anal segment. Anal tuft 
of c f black. Forewings spotted pale ochreous; on hindwings the spots separated, the discal spot roundish, 
its upper portion reduced. From Geraldton and Cairns. Type in the Macleay Museum, Sydney. 
S. heptaspila Turn. Head orange, antennae tipped with black, thorax as in the preceding species, but heptaspila. 
patagia often thinly scaled with yellow, c? with 7 yellow abdominal rings, the hindmost incomplete. Forewings 
spotted pale ochreous, occasionally slightly scaled with yellow at the base. Since according to the author 
some specimens of this species resemble paraula , others pyrocoma, it may be presumed that many of the 
forms described from a rather limited region in Northern Queensland, where Dodd collected most thoroughly, 
are allied to one and the same or may be referred to a limited number of species. In Europe the types are 
for the most part unknown. When examining the Macleay-Collection in Sydney some time ago, 1 noticed 
only very few species of Syntomis that were obviously different, while many appeared to be intermediate 
forms. We figure a few, the types of which are found in private collections in Australia; trigonophora Turn. (9e). trigono- 
Antennae tipped with black, cT with 7, ? with 6 pale golden yellow abdominal rings; anal tuft of cf black V !,ora - 
at the sides, orange in the centre. On hindwing discal spot large, triangular; Brisbane, Sydney. — Closely 
allied is melitospila Turn. (9 e). c? has the anal tuft orange. On the hindwing the discal spot touches the melitospila 
yellow base; the golden-yellow abdominal rings are so broad that the black disappears almost completely and 
the abdomen seems uniformly orange. Queensland. — dyschlaena Turn. (9h) has on the hindwing the discal dyschlaena 
spot rather small, the abdominal rings similar to those of the preceding form, but, like the spots on the 
forewings, less clear yellow, more brown, and sharply defined. Northern Queensland. 
S. geon Druce (lie), a remarkable species; c? with brillant yellow, black-marked body, wings yellow geon. 
narrowly bordered with black. A black transverse bar in the centre of the submedian space and on the 
discocellular vein. The ? has frequently the forewings traversed by rays of black which may vary considerably. 
Mindanao, discovered by Semper. Not common. 
S. kinensis limps, (lie). Wings black-brown with large deep yellow spots; abdomen black-brown kinensis. 
with distinct yellow bands on segments 1 and 4, and faint, obsolete rings on 2 and 3. From Kina-Balu, 
North Borneo. — catena Form. nov. (lie) which I received from Sumatra, may be only a subordinate form catena. 
of the former, rather golden-yellow, the apical spot larger, that below the apex of the cell smaller; above the 
inner margin a longitudinal streak of yellow. But the main difference is in the shape of the wings, the 
primaries being more pointed, the secondaries in-curved below the apex, so that catena appears to be inter¬ 
mediate between kinensis and euryptera, resp. dilatata. — flavigutta Bmps, likewise resembles kinensis, but is flavigutta. 
smaller, with wings more pointed and spots paler yellow. From Chitral. 
S. aurantiifrons Rothsch. Vertex black, frons orange, antennae black, tipped with yellow; thorax aurantii- 
orange with black transverse band, tegulae and patagia black. Abdomen orange, ringed with black. Forewings l rons - 
deep chocolat-brown, with somewhat hyaline orange spots, one wedge-shaped in the cell, another, large, 
irregular, below it; other spots above ribs 2 and 3 and on either side of 5. Hindwings transparent bright 
orange with broad dark border extending on vein 3 toward the middle of the wing. 22 mm. From Formosa (Tainan). 
S. teinopera Hmps. resembles kinensis, but with 4 instead of only 2 abdominal bands, all spots smaller, teinopera. 
that at base of hindwing roundish. From Kina-Balu, Borneo. 
S. dilatata Snell. (Ilf). Wings deep black spotted with brillant yellow. All spots very sharply dilatata. 
defined; hindwing of pointed oval shape, with distinct black border, proximally dentate. Abdominal segments 
1 and 4 with broad yellow bands between which a number of very narrow, often hardly perceptible, yellow 
rings. 
Borneo, Sumatra, Nias; common. 
S. euryptera Hmps. (Ilf) is a transition to the following species, having the hindwings rather broad, euryptera. 
Head and thorax deep yellow, marked with black; abdomen yellow with broad and narrow black bands. 
Anal segment tipped with yellow. Malacca, Borneo 
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