Amata cymatilis (Swinhoe, 1892)

Swinhoe, C. (1892). Catalogue of Eastern and Australian Lepidoptera Heterocera
in the collection of the Oxford University Museum. Part I. Sphinges and
Bombyces. Clarendon Press, Oxford; p. 40 (as Syntomis cymatilis).

165. Syntomis cymatilis. n. sp.

Male, female. Above, of a uniform, very dark glossy black with blue green
reflections, caused by streaks of blue green scales on the fore-wings; the
hind-wings, with the exception of the outer margins, entirely suffused with
that colour; fore-wings with four small limpid spots, 1st sub-basal nearly
round, 2nd medial nearly filling up the outer third of the cell, with straight
ends, 3rd discal divided by the veinlet, 4th small, round, above the inner end
of the third and close to the costa.

Hind-wings with one sub-basal limpid dot.

Below, the fore-wings below the median vein, and all but the base of the hind-
wings pale cupreous brown, the rest black suffused at the base with blue green
scales, especially so in the hind-wings, body and legs black suffused with
blue green, abdomen with a broad ochreous band beyond the middle.

The female differs in its duller colouration in having no spot on the hind-
wing, a small spot near the hinder angle of fore-wing, the 4th spot longer and
more sub-apical, and in having the abdomen encircled by the ochreous band,
whereas in the male the band is only beneath, and not above.

Expanse of wings male 1 2/10 -- female 1 1/10 inches.

a. Philippines (male, female types).

Hampson, G. F. (1898). Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British
Museum, vol. 1, Catalogue of the Syntomidae. British Museum, London; p. 76,
fig. 35 (as Syntomis cymatilis).

107. Syntomis cymatilis.

Syntomis cymatilis, Swinh. Cat. Het. Mus. Oxon. p. 40 (1892).
Syntomis laomedia, Druce, A. M. N. H. (6) xv. p. 43 (1895).

Male. Blue-black; abdomen with slight orange band on basal segment above and
band on 5th segment at sides and below. Fore wing with small rounded hyaline
spot below base of cell; a quadrate spot in end of cell; a small spot above
vein 6 and two spots between veins 3 and 5. Hind wing with small hyaline spot
below base of cell. Underside with the areas covered by the rough scales
brown.

Ab. 1. Fore wing with small hyaline spot above vein 2 beyond middle, the
postmedial spots larger.

Female. Abdomen with the orange band complete; fore wing with the spot above
vein 6 larger; a small subterminal spot below vein 2; hind wing without the
spot below the cell.

Hab. Philippines, 1 male 1 female, types in Mus. Oxon. Type laomedia in Coll.
Druce. Exp. 34 millim.

Seitz, A. (1913). Syntomis. In: Seitz, A. (ed.), The Macrolepidoptera of the
World, vol. 10, The Indo-Australian Bombyces and Sphinges. Alfred Kernen,
Stuttgart; p. 79, pl. 11 h (as Syntomis cymatilis).

S. cymatilis Swinh. (= laomedia Druce) (11 h) is deep black, with steel-blue
lustre; the 5th abdominal segment is adorned by a yellow ring which in the
male is only visible on the sides and beneath, whereas the back is
uninterruptedly black. In the typical form the hyaline spots are quite
insignificant, on the forewing a small spot near the base, one at the end of
the cell, a dot below the costa and a double spot beyond the cell. On the
hindwing only a small spot at the base. -- ab. orthrus nom. nov. (= ab. 1
Hmps.) (11 h) has on the forewing the spots much larger, and below the cell
another good-sized spot, on the hindwing 2 hyaline dots instead of only one.
Flies at the same time and in the same localities as typical specimens.
Philippines.