222 NOCTUIDJi. 



wing black-brown with a chocolate tinge; an ochreous fascia on 

 costal area narrowing to apex ; traces of a minutely waved dark 

 posfcmedial line oblique towards costa and below vein 4. Hind wing 

 uniform black-brown with a chocolate tinge ; the underside purplish 

 brown tinged with grey and irrorated with whitish. 



Hah. Gaboon, Ogowe R., typef in Coll. Holland. Exp. 24 millim. 



5340. Cerynea plagiostola. (Plate CLV. fig. 20.) 

 Zurobata 2>lagiostola, Hrapsn. Moths Ind. iv. p. 518 (189(5). 



2 . Head red-brown slightly mixed with grey ; thorax brown 

 suffused with violaceous white ; abdomen purplish red tinged with 

 grey, the base suffused with violaceous white, the 2nd segment 

 with white line ; pectus, legs, aud ventral surface of abdomen 

 brownish white, the tibiae with a purplish tinge. Fore wing 

 chocolate-red, the costal area broadly suffused with violaceous 

 white to subterminal line, extending to inner margin on basal area; 

 a slight curved white subbasal line ; antemedial line white, angled 

 outwards below costa and at median nervure and inwards in cell, 

 oblique below the cell ; a black point in middle of cell ; reniform 

 defined by white, inwardly oblique, triangular, a white streak 

 beyond its upper extremity ; postmedial line fine, white, strongly 

 excurved from costa to vein 4, then bent inwards to just below 

 lower angle of cell and erect to inner margin, some white points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line slight and whitish from costa 

 to vein 6, angled outwards at vein 7, then an oblique white streak 

 to tips of cilia at vein 4, then indistinct, dark, waved ; a series of 

 black points before termen, defined on inner side by a white line 

 from apex to discal fold, bent outwards on to cilia at apex ; cilia 

 with a fine pale line at base. Hind wing chocolate-red, the basal 

 inner area violaceous white ; an indistinct curved dark antemediaf 

 line ; postmedial line white, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; 

 traces of a pale waved subterminal line ; a series of black points 

 just before termen : a fine pale line at base of cilia ; the underside 

 ochreous white suffused with red, a series of black points before 

 termen. 



Hob. Bhutan, 2500' (Dudgeon), 1 $ type. Exp. 26 millim. 



5341. Cerynea fissilinea, n. sp. 



J . Head, thorax, and abdomen rufous ; a pure white mark 

 between antenna) ; the meso- and metathorax with some black 

 scales ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen white slightly 

 tinged with rufous. Fore wing rufous, the costal area irrorated 

 with fuscous brown ; a fine oblique white subbasal line from costa 

 to base at submedian fold ; auteniedial line fine, white defined on 

 outer side by black scales, oblique, straight ; a black and white 

 discoidal bar with oblique white line from it to inner margin ; 

 postmedial line white, acutely angled outwards below costa, then 



