. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 44 STNTOMIDJS. bands at base and beyond middle. Fore wing black, with large wedge-shaped hyaline patch in cell; an elongate patch below cell and vein 2 ; large spots in the interspaces between veins 2 and 5; an elongate spot above 6 and small spot above 7. Hind wing hyaline, the veins, cost a, and terminal band black, the last narrow at apex, then tapering to a fine line ; inner margin yellow. Hah. SiKHiM ; Assam ; Calcutta, type cupreipennis; S. India ; Ceylon ; Buema {E. Y. Watson, L. de NiceviUe) ; Yunnan, type fytchei; Mala
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 44 STNTOMIDJS. bands at base and beyond middle. Fore wing black, with large wedge-shaped hyaline patch in cell; an elongate patch below cell and vein 2 ; large spots in the interspaces between veins 2 and 5; an elongate spot above 6 and small spot above 7. Hind wing hyaline, the veins, cost a, and terminal band black, the last narrow at apex, then tapering to a fine line ; inner margin yellow. Hah. SiKHiM ; Assam ; Calcutta, type cupreipennis; S. India ; Ceylon ; Buema {E. Y. Watson, L. de NiceviUe) ; Yunnan, type fytchei; Malacca ; Sumatka. Exp. 26-32 millim. T) pe t libera in Mus. Oxon. It may be an extreme form of imaon. 30. Ceryx imaon. Sphinx imaon, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. p. 94, pi. 248. E (1780); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. i. p. 210; Wlk. i. 127; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 1(2. Syntomisfusiformis, Wlk. vii. 1695 (1856); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 102. Syntomis ajpiyroximata, Wlk. xxxi. 79 (1864); Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 92. Syntomis sargania, Butl. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1879, p. 4; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 92. Syntomis artina, Butl. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. p. -347 (1876); Kirby, â Cat. Het. p. 92. Syntomis mota, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1891, p. 134. Black; frons yellowish or dirty white; antennae -white at tips ; collar orange; tarsi banded with Avhite ; abdomen with two orange bands, at base and beyond middle. Fore wing with wedge-shaped hyaline patch in end of cell; an elongate patch below the cell and vein 2 ; a spot between veins 2 and 3 and larger spots in the interspaces between veins 3 and 5 ; an elongate spot below vein 7 â. , â ^, with smaller spot above it. Hind Fig. 18.âteryximaon, r7. \. .,, â , t t- v.âiâ⢠(from MotL Ind. vol i.) ^^^g ^^^^h hyaline spot below cell, in end ol cell, and usually between veins 2 and 5, leaving a large black apical area running obliquely across the wing; inner margin yellow. Ab. 1. sargania, has an elongate hyaline streak between veins 5 and 6 of fore wing, sometimes reduced
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