EUTOMIS. CKKYX. 



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Black shot with metallic blue ; guhe, patagia, and sides of thorax 



with white patches ; ab- 

 domen shot with metallic 

 green, the first four seg- 

 ments fringed with white 

 scales. Pore wiug with 

 white basal point ; quad- 

 rate spots below base and 

 in end of cell ; an oblique 

 patch below vein 2, a small 

 spot above 6, and two spots 

 between veins 3 and 5, 

 the cell and spot between 



Fig. 13. — Eutomis minceiis, cJ. 



Hind wing with white patch below 

 veins 2 and 5. 



Hah. Cape Colont, five specimens (Trimen). 



Ex2>. 42 millim. 



Genus CERYX. 



Type. 



Cert/a-, Wllgrn. Wien. Ent. Mon. vii. p. 140 (1863) anthrac/formis. 



Agaphthora, Meyr. P. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. (2) i. p. 774 



' (1886) melanora, 



Syntomoides, Hmpsn. Moths Incl. i. p. 209 (1892) imaon. 



Proboscis well developed ; palpi porrect and not extending beyond the frons ; 

 mid and hind tibia3 witb minute terminal pairs of spurs, hind libia^ rarely with 

 two pairs. Fore wing witb vein 5 curved ; 6 from, or from below upper angle ; 

 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 stalked*. Hind wing with vein 2 from well before angle of cell; 

 3, 4, and 7 absent. 



Sect. I. Fore wing with veins 4, 6 on a long stalk ; 3 from near angle of cell. 



9. Ceryx pleurosticta, n. sp. 



5 . Black-brown ; antennae white at tips ; frons yellowish white ; 

 spots above eyes, tegulse, patches on patagia, meso- and metathorax, 



pectus, and coxae yellow ; tarsi 

 with the 1st joint white ; ab- 

 domen with dorsal yellow patch 

 on 1st segment and lateral 

 patches on the next five seg- 

 i^ ments ; the ventral surface 



yellow. Fore wing with two 

 Vig. U.— Ceryx pleurosticta, $. \. yellow points at base; a hya- 

 line spot below base of cell, a 

 quadrate patch below origin of vein 2, a small spot in end of cell, 

 and spots above vein 6 and between veins 3 and 5, Hind wing 

 with hyaline patch below the cell and spot between veins 2 and 5 ; 

 the hyaline markings of both wings tinged and slightly edged 

 with yellow. 



Hah. BoENEO, Sandakan (Pryer), 1 § type; Labuan, Krp. 



30 millim. 



* 9 usually absent in alhimacida. 



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