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SYNTOMIS. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
velatvpen- 
nis. 
pembertoni. 
Phoenicia. 
shoa. 
consimilis. 
williami. 
cuprizonata. 
iomasina. 
stictoptera. 
ploetzi. 
waldowi. 
endocrocis. 
alicia. 
mogadoren- 
sis. 
damarensis. 
apicalis. 
cerbcra. 
reducta. 
fantasia. 
hanningto- 
ni. 
francisca. 
lateralis. 
iritonia. 
6. Genus: &y«itomfs F. 
For this genus containing a great number of species the name Amata has been recently proposed as 
being of a prior date. But as this would upset the whole literature of the 19th century and the name Syntomis 
has also been used in Vol. VI and X, innumerable mistakes would arise therefrom, for which reason we keep 
to the name from which the name of the family originates, merely stating the above-mentioned fact. — As 
to the genus itself, its range and characterization, comp. Vol. II p. 38, and Vol. X p. 07 and 68. -— From 
Ethiopian Africa more than fifty species are known, being partly very much alike. 
S. velatipesinis Wkr. (3 e). This peculiar species has dark brown, spotless wings with a metallic green 
(on the veins red) reflection. The 1st and 3rd to 5th abdominal rings show a bronze reflection. Abyssinia. In 
the colouring the species distantly recalls the Australian S. bicolor (Vol. X, pi. 11 k), but it has much more 
pointed forewings. 
S. pembertoni Rothsch. (3 e) is likewise blackish-brown with a blue gloss, but on the wings there are 
traces of spots, 2 in the centre of the forewing, 1 near the base of the hindwing. Angola. 
S. Phoenicia Hmps. (3 e). Body, particularly in front, with an orange gloss. Minute spots, in the 
forewing 4 arranged in the shape of the Southern Cross, in the hindwing 1 near the centre of the hind-margin. 
East Africa. 
S„ shoa Hmps. (3 f) is smaller and with broader wings; the spots are distinctly hyaline: 2 in the centre, 
3 in the apical part of the forewing, 1 at the base of the hind-margin of the hindwing. Abyssinia. 
S. cosisimiHs Hmps. (3 f). Shape of wings as in shoa. All the spots are much larger, another one in 
the apical half of the hindwing, the abdomen with a dark blackish-blue gloss. East Africa. 
S. williami Rothsch. (= dissimilis B.-Balc.) (3 f) is like the preceding species, the spots somewhat 
higher and shorter, particularly the one at the base of the hindwing is extended. East Africa. 
S. cuprizonata Hmps. (= phaeozona Zerny) (3 f) is very similar to williami, the basal spot of the 
hindwing distally more straightly cut off, the abdomen in the centre with an intense coppery gloss. Central 
and East Africa. 
S. iomasina Btlr. (3 f). The hyaline spots are arranged as in the preceding species, but very unequally 
sized; the apical spot in the fore wing is invariably smaller, those near the base of the fore wing and before the 
apex of the hindwing hardly as large as the prick of a needle. West and East Africa, presumably distributed 
over the greatest part of the Sudan. -— stictoptera Rothsch. has particularly minute spots. — But, on the con¬ 
trary, the spots may also be larger and even confluent. 
S„ ploetzi Strd. Wings very similar to those of tomasina , but the abdomen not marked red. Makomo. 
West Afrika. 
S. waldowi Griinb. (3 f) may only be an enlarged form of the preceding; in the type the forewing lacks 
the small basal spot, whereas the other spots are rather enlarged. Togo. 
S. endocrocis Hmps. (3 g) is very much larger, all the spots being larger, too, the abdomen with 
coppery bands. From the Congo and Mashona Land. 
S. alicia Btlr. (3 g) has already been described in Vol. II (p. 444) as being similar to phegea in the 
spotting; hindwing with an almost entirely white basal half. Widely distributed in East Africa; the form 
mogadorensis Black, near Marakesh touches the palearctic region. damarensis Griinb. (3 g) is presumably 
closely allied to this form from Da mar a Land; all the hyaline spots are very much extended. — apicalis Strd. 
is a name given to the scarcely delimitable specimens from German East Africa; typical alicia, however, likewise 
occur there. 
S. cerbera L. (3 g) is a large species with a blackisli-blue gloss, and red belts on the rings 3, 4 and 5. 
Spots of forewing similar to phegea, in the hindwing 2 small roundish spots below the cell and postmedianly. 
-— In ab. reducta now. nov. (= ah. 1 Hmps.) which is not rare one of the spots in the hindwing is absent.-— 
In fantasia Btlr. the forewing has a small accessory spot. — In a local form from the Ny r assa Land and the 
Kilima Ndjaro, hanningtoni nom. nov. ( — subsp. 1 Hmps.) the spot in the cell-end is large and wedge-shaped; 
- in francisca Btlr. (= curtiplaga Mab.) it is small and roundish. Widely distributed in Africa, particularly 
in the west and south, in many places common. 
S. lateralis Bsd. (= marginalis Wkr.) (5d) has the size of S. phegea] black, metallic blue, body 
marked orange, sides of abdomen with 6 orange bands; the 0 hyaline spots of the forewing are mostly small, 
whitish hyaline, hindwing with 4 small spots, in, below and behind the cell. Senegambia and Ashanti. — Very 
near to tritonia. 
S. tritonia Hmps. (4 a) is a West African species, the largest of the genus. It has an expanse of up 
to 45 mm; bluish-black, with large white spots as in S. phegea; in the hindwing the base is white, with an 
irregular distal border. The abdomen exhibits, on the 2nd to 5th rings, golden yellow transverse bands pierced 
by a dark dorsal streak. Nigeria. 
