224 N0CTUID.E. 



the area beyond it rufous to the subterminal line which is black, 

 arising from apex, angled outwards to termeu at vein 7, strongly 

 angled inwards at discal fold and outwards to termen at vein 4, 

 then incurved, the area beyond it white irrorated with black- 

 brown ; a series of black striae just before termen ; a fine black 

 terminal line: cilia white mixed with black. Hind wing reddish 

 brown, darker towards termen ; cilia brownish white ; the underside 

 whitish tinged with brown and irrorated with black, a series of 

 black stria; just before termen. 



Hah. Sarawak ( Wallace), type t 5 3 " n Mus. Oxon. ; Borneo, 

 Sandakan (Pr>/er), 1 2 • Exp. 2^ millim. 



5344. Cerynea virescens, n. sp. (Plate CLY. fig. 23.) 



<$ . Head and thorax white with a faint greenish tinge ; palpi 

 and antennae blackish ; pectus and legs blackish, the tarsi ringed 

 with white; abdomen white tinged with ochreous brown. Fore 

 wing white with a faint greenish tinge ; a subbasal black spot on 

 cost a; antemedial line black, oblique, excurved below the cell and 

 incurved above vein 1, a blackish streak before it on costa ; a slight 

 black discoidal lunule ; post medial line black, excurved beyond the 

 cell, then incurved and again excurved at vein 1, two white points 

 beyond it on costa with a black streak between them ; subterminal 

 line black, minutely dentate, from costa to discal fold ; a waved 

 black terminal line ; cilia white mixed with fuscous. Hind wing- 

 white faintly tinged with brown; a waved black terminal line; 

 cilia intersected with fuscous ; the underside white irrorated with 

 brown, an indistinct dark discoidal spot and curved postmedial line. 



Hah. Cape Colony, Transkei {Miss F. Barrett), 1 d type. Exp. 

 20 millim. 



Genus FARARA. 



Type. 



Farara, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xv. p. 203 (1908) pulchra. 



Proboscis fully developed : palpi upturned, slender, the 2nd joint reaching 

 about to vertex of head, the 3rd moderate ; frons smooth ; eyes huge, round ; 

 antennae of male with fascicles of long cilia ; thorax clothed almost entirely 

 with scales, the pro- and metatborax with spreading crests; tibire slightly 

 Iringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with 

 the apex rounded, the termen excised below apex and towards tornus and 

 excurved at middle ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper 

 angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 almost fully developed from 

 well above augle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 

 base only. 



*5345. Farara pulchra. 

 Farara pulchra, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xv. p. 203 (1908). 



$ . Head and thorax yellow, the head and tegulse tinged with 

 rufous, the patagia and metatborax with slight rufous streaks; 



