142 ERNEST HILL AND L. G. HAYDON. 



Cellia squamosa Theohald. 



Theobald (vol. i, p. 167) thus describes certain features of 

 the female of this species : 



'' Palpi densely scaled with deep brown scales, which stand - 

 out from the surface like A. sinensis, with a few white ones 

 here and there, forming also three narrow bands, one apical. 



" Wings with the costa deep black with three distinct very 

 small white spots, two smaller basal ones and two small 

 apical ones, some of these spots pass but very indistinctly 

 into the first long vein ; most of the veins dark scaled, the 

 lateral scales being clavate, always dark but paler on the 

 white areas of the vein ; the median scales are creamy white 

 on most of the third long vein, the black forming three spots ; 

 a small patch on each branch of the second fork cell, a large 

 patch on each branch of the fifth vein, and another on the 

 stem, and two large patches on the sixth long vein ; fringe 

 uniformly brown, the lateral scales, even on the pale areas, 

 are very dusky, so that the creamy spots on the wing field do 

 not show up very strongly. 



" Legs with the femora dark brown, tibia? and metatarsi of 

 the fore legs mottled with numerous white scales, also the 

 apex of the first and second tarsal joints of the fore and mid 

 legs broadly white banded ; hind legs with the femora 

 swollen, dark brown with white patches, one large patch near 

 the apex, the extreme apex white; tibite mottled black and 

 white ; metatarsi apically banded, and also the next three 

 tarsal joints, the last black. 

 " Length, 5 to 5'5 mm." 



The genus Cellia is by no means common in Natal. We 

 have encountered two species ; the one, of which a wing is 

 reproduced (PI. XXV, fig. /) corresponds fairly accurately 

 with Theobald's description of s q u a m o s a . On the first longi- 

 tudinal vein, however, are two minute additional white spots, not 

 mentioned in the description, and a large spot on the posterior 

 or lower branch of the first fork cell, of which no mention is 



