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stripe along the lower edge of the cell ; a large whitish apical patch, below 

 which on the inner margin is a small creamy patch, tlie two being obscurely 

 joined by a trace of a very fine doable whitish line ; a small brown snbapical 

 costal spot in the white patch ; the upper margin of the cell has a dark stripe. 

 There is a trace of a very fine snbmarginal serrated line. Secondary white, with 

 ,1 liroad apical ])atch extending halfway down the outer margin. 



i'mleisifle : Primary darkish brown, with the costa spotted with white, the 

 inner margin white below the cell. Secondary just as the upperside. 



Exjianse : 33 mm. 



Ilab. Dinawa, .September. 



.31. Thyatira ekeikei spec. nov. (PL IV. f. 31). 



?. Head greenish; palpi pinki.sh ; thorax ochreous grey, very finely and 

 sparingly irrorated with brown ; abdomen cream-coloured at base, darker brown 

 towards the extremity, with a dark patch on each side of the dorsum before 

 the middle. 



Primary, above, greenish, irrorated in parts with black ; a pale ochreous grey 

 patch at the liase, and in the middle of the inner margin, with a double fine 

 edging of white and black on one side ; a small pale chestnut patch at the tornus, 

 and a small and a large chestnut spot in the cell ; an apical patch of olive-green 

 edged internally by a white line with a dark brown snffusion, followed by an 

 ochreous, grey crescent edged internally by a white and black cresceutic line ; 

 from the costa before the cell-spots is a short serrate black line, and a longer 

 subterminal serrate black line from the spot at the tornus. Secondary grey 

 for the basal half, blackish for the terminal half, with a brownish-grey costa 

 and apex. 



Expanse : 4(» mm. 



Hub. Ekeikei, January and February. 



SYNTOMIDAE. 

 32. Ceryx subformicina spec. nov. 



t?. Frons yellow; occiput black; collar yellow; thorax black ; patagiae yellow; 

 metathorax yellow ; abdomen black, with segmental divisions yellow, not meeting 

 on the ventral surface. 



Primary, above, black with a long hyaline spot in the cell, beneath another 

 hyaline spot reaching to the termen, beneath this above the tornus is a small 

 hyaline dash, above veins 3 and 4 an elongate hyaline spot, above 6 another 

 elongate hyaline spot, above 7 a smaller spot. Secondary with two large hyaline 

 spots below the cell divided by vein 2, with base and the cell pale lemon-yellow. 



? like the male, but with a hyaline spot in the angle above vein 2. 



Expanse, 31 — 32 mm. 



Hab. Upjier Aroa River. 



In the Tring Museum. 



33. Ceryx aroa spec. nov. 

 ? . Head, frons, and antennae black ; thorax also black, with a yellow-orange 

 spot on the jiatagiac and metathorax ; abdomen brownish black, with a subdorsal 

 and a ventral row of yellow-orange spots ; legs blackish brown. 



