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Show 1871.] ON N E W INSECTS FROM YUNAN. 245 posterior margins black; space between the submedian vein and posterior margin pale yellow ; a broad transverse discocellular black quadrate spot, which is recurved outwards: hind wing with the anterior border pale yellow, and having a small discoidal black spot; apex and exterior margin black ; posterior margin tinged with yellow. Spot on front of head, coxae, legs above, and band on each segment of abdomen beneath white. Collar round thorax, tegulae, spots on thorax, and band on each segment of abdomen above orange-yellow ; tip of abdomen iu male purplish black, in female yellowish grey. Proboscis, palpi, antennae, and legs beneath black, the antennae tipped with white. Expanse, S lyjrj ? 1| inch. 2. SYNTOMIS SLADENI, Moore, n. sp. (Plate XVIII. fig. 5.) Female. Wings hyaline, veins jet-black ; body black, with orange-yellow bands: fore wing with a jet-black costal border of exterior and posterior margins, a narrow longitudinal streak extending from the discocellular vein halfway across the disk; veins at the base of wing tinged with orange-yellow : hind wing with a narrow jet-black border extending all round, with a short curved streak extending upward from middle of the exterior margin. Proboscis, palpi, antennae, and eyes black. Legs black beneath, whitish above. Spot on front of head, collar round thorax, streak on tegulae, spots on thorax above and beneath, streak on coxse, and band on each segment of abdomen deep orange-yellow. Expanse l-j-4^ inch. 3. SYNTOMIS GROTEI, Moore, n. sp. (Plate XVIII. fig. 4.) Female. Wings hyaline, veins brownish black; body black, with orange-yellow bands : fore wing with the base of costal and posterior margins orange-yellow; costa and posterior margins anteriorly and exterior margin black ; a small space within base of discoidal cell, a streak beneath extending to the submedian vein, a streak anteriorly on median vein, space between the discoidal veinlets except a small rounded hyaline exterior spot, and a short space upwards from exterior margin between the second and third median veinlets brownish black: hind wing with a brownish-black border tinged with orange-yellow on anterior margin; a short black streak extending upward from exterior margin. Proboscis, palpi, and antennae black. Front of head, collar, streak on tegulae, spots on thorax, coxae, and band on each segment of abdomen orange-yellow. Legs yellowish white above, brown beneath. Expanse 1| inch. 4. SYNTOMIS ATKINSONI, Moore, n. sp. (Plate XVIII. fig. 2.) Male and female. Bluish black, body with a slight purplish tinge : fore wing with seven transparent spots, the first near the base, small, rounded, the second occupying the anterior portion of the cell, the third below the cell and extending obliquely to near the posterior angle, the fourth and fifth divided by the first or upper median |