SYNTOMIS. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
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S. congener Hmps. (3 i). This species also recalls the European phegea, but chiefly by the abdomen congener. 
exhibiting a light yellow transverse band on the 1st and 5th rings. British East Africa. 
S. rubritiricta Hmps. (3 h). All the spots are very large, dull hyaline ochreous-yellow, abdomen at rubrilincla. 
the base yellowish, then blue, and in the anal half with a coppery red reflection. East Africa. 
So chrysozona Hmps. (3 h) is rather variegated, anterior body black with orange shoulders, abdomen chry.sozona. 
at the base and on the middle segments yellow, the rings 2 and 3 being black, the anal portion with a blue 
reflection. Hyaline spots dull yellowish-white, very large, on the forewing the costal margin is blue, the hind- 
margin red. Hindwing with a dull hyaline proximal and a black distal half; in the latter a large round hyaline 
spot. East Africa. 
S. johanna Bt.lr. (3 i) is very similar to tomasina (3 f), but distinguished by larger and clearer hyaline johanna. 
spots and by the 3rd middle ring of the abdomen being orange instead of coppery. Particularly the basal hyaline 
spots of all the wings are larger. ■— Generally also the 1st abdominal ring above is somewhat marked yellow, 
which in ab. anna Btlr. becomes a larger orange spot at the base of the abdomen. Knysna in South Africa, anna. 
S. xanthopleura Hmps. (3 i). The spots of the forewing are arranged as in johanna, but smaller, parti- xanthopleu- 
cularly the spot near the tornus; in the hindwing the basal spot is much smaller, not extending beyond the ra ' 
anal area. Above all, however, the abdomen is entirely blackish-blue; the variegated lings are absent altogether 
and the thorax only shows white shoulders. From Uganda. 
S. flavoanalis Gaede (ined.) (3 i). Spots of forewing as in a small xanthopleura (3 i). Hindwing with flavoanalis. 
2 small spots near the base and a very small one below vein 4. Abdomen on the first segments black, then 
orange. 22 mm. Cameroon. 
S. monticola Aur. (3 i), from the Kilima Ndjaro has quite similar but somewhat broader forewings; monticola. 
on the hindwing the basal hyaline spot is as large as in johanna ; abdomen only at the base feebly marked yellowish. 
S. simplex Wkr. (= monedula Wallgr.) is much smaller; body likewise marked orange, the hyaline simplex. 
spots rather small, some of them sometimes absent. Recognisable by a small white spot at the apex of the 
fore wing and by the hindwing exhibiting a minute spot at most below the base of the cell. In typical specimens 
the spots are comparatively large. — In ab. corvus Wallgr. the hindwing is without any spots, while in the corvus. 
forewing only the spot in the cell is more distinctly developed. — In ab. nostalis Wkr. (5 a) all the spots are nostalis. 
present, but strongly reduced, only as large as the prick of a needle. -— Natal. 
S. intemiplaga Mah. (3h). Size and shape of monticola, but the hindwing has only a small central internipla- 
spot, and in the forewing there is a small red spot between the hyaline spots. Congo, Gabun. —- Some species 
exhibit a blue reflection. 
S. ceres Oberth. (3 i), from Zanzibar, has much larger hyaline spots almost only separated by the ceres. 
thick black veins. The yellow collar and the belt on the 5th ring, which are distinct in congener, are absent 
here, but the base of the abdomen shows a small yellowish-red metallic cross-band. 
S. kuhlweinii Lefbr. ( = natalii Bscl., simplex Wkr. p. p.) (3 k). Body entirely as in ceres, but the kuhlweinii. 
small spots on the wings are still narrower and smaller than in congener (3 i). Cape Colony to Natal. 
S. miozona Hmps. (3 k) is almost exactly coloured as kuhlweinii, but much larger and more robust; miozona. 
the hyaline spots are larger, the one above the centre of the hind-margin is not so oblique. The red transverse 
spot at the base of the abdomen is broad. From North-East Rhodesia. — nigricilia Strd. (3 k) is a somewhat nigricilia. 
smaller form from German East Africa, in which the white small fringe-spot at the apex of the wing is absent. 
- — magila Strd., from the same patria, has the wings posteriorly more purple black, and below the apex no magila. 
white fringe. 
S. dilateralis Hmps. (3 g). Somewhat similar to S. johanna Btlr. (3 i), but the body is without a real dilateralis. 
orange, only the dorsum of the abdomen shows a faint coppery gloss on the 4th and 5th rings. Forewing similar 
to that of johanna, but on the hindwing the hindmarginal spot of johanna is much larger than the distal 
one, occupying the whole basal half, whilst in dilateralis it is merely a minute subbasal spot. From the Kilima 
Ndjaro. 
S. atricornis Wallgr. (= sirius Dist.) (3 g) is small and with very broad wings, black, the forewing atricornis. 
with 5 rather small hyaline spots; hindwing black, at the anal angle somewhat produced, with a large orange 
spot at the hind-margin, and a small whitish-hyaline spot in the disc. From Knysna in South Africa. 
S. phaeobasis Hmps. (3 h) is coloured and spotted as cerbera, the abdomen likewise with red middle phaeobasis. 
rings; the white spots of the wings, however, are quite small, some only as large as the prick of a needle. 
Uganda. 
S. leucerythra Holl. ( = rubicunda Mab., divalis Schs. <J) (3 g) has a conspicuously light reddish-yellow leucerythra. 
ground of the wings and body. The hyaline spots of the forewing, being white and thickly surrounded with 
black, are united in 2 large groups. Body likewise orange yellowish-red, at the base of the abdomen a light 
belt. West Africa. 
S. croceizona Hmps. (3 k) is above almost exactly like ceres, but the spots are much smaller, not croceizona. 
larger than in kuhltveinii] easily discernible from ceres by the chest being without any scarlet spots. - —- In ab. 
depurpuralis Strd. the wings are covered with metallic green instead of purple. Rhodesia. depurpura- 
lis. 
