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NOCTDID.E. 



costa ; an indistinct dentate yellowish subterminal line, angled 

 inwards and with fuscous suffusion beyond it at discal fold ; a 

 terminal series of small black spots. Hind wing yellowish mostly 

 suffused with red and slightly irrorated with black ; two black dis- 

 coidal points ; a faint brownish medial shade ; a faint minutely 

 waved yellowish postmedial line defined on each side by black striae 

 at inner margin ; traces of a minutely dentate yellowish sub- 

 terminal line ; a terminal series of small black spots ; the underside 

 whitish with black discoidal striga and faint brownish medial, 

 postmedial, and subterminal shades. 



Hah. Madras, Palnis (Campbell), 1 d ; Ceylon, Nawalapitiya 

 (Pole), 1 J type ; Andamans, 1 d . Exp. 22-24 millim. 



c 1 . (Ceri/nea.) Both wings of male normal. 



«-. Fore wing olive-brown irrorated with silvery 



scales argentescens. 



h' 2 . Fore wing oehreous suffused with rufous. 



a 3 . Fore wing with black patch bevond postmedial 



line at inner margin disjunct aria. 



UK Fore wing without black patch beyond post- 

 medial Hue at inner margin. 

 a*. Fore wing with oblique black mark from 

 termen just below apex to subterminal line 



at discal fold onqihisalis. 



b*. Fore wing with slight oblique black bar from 



apex ochrcana. 



5334. Cerynea argentescens, n. sp. 



o . Head blackish ; thorax and abdomen pale brown tinged with 

 rufous. 1 he tegulas whitish; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of 

 abdomen whitish tinged with rufous, the fore tibiaa fuscous in front. 

 Fore wing pale olive-brown irrorated with silvery scales and with 



Fig. 56. — Cerynea argentescens, J 1 . 



a slight rufous tinge on basal area ; a minute black point in middle 

 of cell and two discoidal points connected by a curved striga ; post- 

 medial line slight, dark, very oblique from costa to vein 6, then 

 minutely dentate and inwardly oblique, some white points with 

 dark streaks between them beyond it on costa ; a faint pale sub- 

 terminal line, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a fine waved 

 black terminal line with small black spots in the interspaces. Hind 

 wing pale olive-brown with a silvery gloss ; two black discoidal 

 points ; a faint curved minutely waved whitish postmedial line with 



