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fold, incurved below vein 3 ; a series of small black spots just 

 before termen. Hind wing pale ocbreous tinged in parts with 

 rufous and slightly irrorated with black ; tbe male with tuft of 

 brown hair below base of cell ; two black discoidal points : post- 

 medial line black, incurved at discal fold and bent inwards below 

 vein 3 ; a minutely waved yellowish subterminal line defined on 

 each side by rufous suffusion ; a series of black points just before 



Fig. 54. — Ccrynca (rich iJixsh, J. }. 



termen ; the underside yellowish white, the costal area from middle 

 and the apical half of terminal area tinged with brown, a black 

 discoidal striga, faint medial line, and curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. Both wings with the terminal area browner. 



Hob. Sierra Leone (Clements), 2 <$ , 2 <£ type; Gold Coast, 

 Kumasi ( Whiteside), 1 § ; Sudan, lilue iS T ile (Floiver), 1 $ . Exp. 

 18-20 millim. 



b l . Fore wing of male with some rough hair on inner basal area ; bind 

 wing normal. 

 a-. Fore wing suffused with purple-brown, typically 



with yellow apical patch endotrichalis. 



b-. Fore wing purple-brown, the base and an apical 



patch yellow ... jlavibasalis. 



C-. Fore wing with the costal and terminal areas 

 purple-brown, the rest of wing yellow suffused 



with fiery red ignearia. 



</'-. Fore wing yellow suffused with fiery red. 



a 3 . Fore wing with the costal area purple-brown... rubra. 

 I 3 . Fore wing with the costal area not purple- 

 brown. 

 a 4 . Fore wing with small black spot in middle of 



cell and large subterminal spot above vein 1. perrubra. 

 b A . Fore wing with two black discoidal points 



and without subterminal spot ustida. 



5328. Cerynea endotrichalis, n. sp. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish red, the last suffused with 

 fuscous except at base ; palpi and fore legs blackish. Pore wing 

 brown-red slightly mixed with yellowish and irrorated with black ; 

 traces of a blackish auteniedial line, oblique from costa to median 

 nervure and with blackish spot beyond it in cell ; a curved black 

 discoidal striga slightly defined on outer side by yellowish ; a faint 

 oblique dark line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; post- 



