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*7916. Celiptera thericles. (Plate CCXXV. fig. 4.) 



Thermesia thericles, Scbaus, Insec. Inseit. Menstr. i. p. 25 (1913). 



2 . Head and tegulie black-brown mixed with brownish white ; 

 thorax brownish grey with two minute black spots at base of 

 patagia and black bars at middle ot patagia and on mesothorax ; 

 pal])i and pectus in front tinged with rufous ; abdomen grev tinged 

 with reddish and irrorated with a few black scales, the ventral 

 surface whiter. Fore wing grey with a reddish tinge and irrorated 

 with a few black scales on basal half ; the costal edge black Avith a 

 fine pale streak below it on basal half ; a black-brown subbasal 

 patch from costa to submedian fold witla the pale waved subbasal 

 line on it ; antemedial line white defined on inner side by black- 

 broAvn and on outer by a black-brown band interrupted at the veins 

 and submedian fold, obliqvie and slightly sinuous to vein 1, then 

 bent outwards, an incomplete black-brown ocellus with black- 

 brown centre before it above inner margin ; a minute black spot in 

 middle of cell and quadrate whitish discoidal patch defined on inner 

 side by a brown line and with brown striga in centre ; a double 

 brown medial line from costa to the discoidal patch, oblique and 

 dentate below tlie cell ; another indistinctly double medial line 

 brown filled in in parts with whitish, oblique to vein 7 beyond the 

 cell then waved ; postmedial line fine, double, red-brown filled in 

 with white, bent outwards and bidentate below costa, angled 

 inwai'ds and with black spot beyond it at discal fold, then oblique 

 and angled inwards at vein 1 ; an oblique red-brown subterminal line 

 arising from apex and closely approximated to the postmedial line 

 below vein 7. a series of black points beyond it on the veins and 

 a dentate wlutisli line before termen ; a yellow line at base of cilia. 

 Hind wing grey tinged with brown and iiTorated with fuscous except 

 on basal area ; four indistinct dark lines on medial area ; postmedial 

 line slight, red-brown defined on outer side by white, slightly waved 

 and oblique to submedian fold and bent inwards to inner margin ; a 

 brownish subterminal line defined on outer side by grey, followed 

 by a series of black points on tlie veins with whitish marks beyond 

 tliem ; a yellowish line at base of cilia. Underside of fore wing 

 red-brown with bl.tck discoidal bar and subterminal shade ; hind 

 wing white irror.ited with l)rown, a black discoidal point, traces of 

 pt)stmedial line and subterminal shade. 



Hah. Fb. Guiaxa, St. Jean Maroni (Schaiis), type f ? in U.S. 

 Xat. Mus. I^xj). 48 millim. 



Sect. II. Femora and tibiiu of luale and underside of hind wing siuootlily 

 scaled. 



A. Fore wing with the postmedial line incurved valinn. 



B. Fore wing with the postiuediulhne oblique friistiUum. 



C. Fore wing wiili the postmedial line ^xcurved codo. 



*7917. Celiptera valina. (Plate CCXXV. ^i^. 5.) 



Mods vniiiia, Schans, A. M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 86 (1901). 

 $ . Head and thorax fuscous brown mixi'd witli grey, the pectus 



