270 xocrrnxT;. 



margin, where it is conjoined to a curved liLick-brown ]X)stmedial 

 band expanding into a largo patch on costal area and diffused to 

 termen from below apex to vein 8 ; hind wing with black discoidal 

 spot, broad oblique sinuous band from costa to beyond middle to 

 tornus, and diffused maculate terminal band from below apex to 

 vein 2. 



Hah. LouBEX(;'o Marqles, Delagoa Bay {Distant), 1 $ ; 

 Becuuaxalaxd, Lake N'Gami {Luf/nrd^, 2 5 ; Traxsvaal, 

 Pretoria {Distant), 1 d ; Ohaxge K. Colony, Bloemfontein 

 {Eckersley), 1 2 , Leewspruit {Hamilton), 1 S ; Cape Coloxy 

 {Sir A. Smith), \6 , Grahamstown, 1 St Knysna {Trimen), 16 , 

 1 $ , Eei-ste R. {Trimen), \6 , 1 ? , Simons Town {de la Garde), 

 1 ? . Exj). 42-50 millim. 



8082. Cerocala socotrensis. (Plate CCXXVI. fig. IG.) 



Cerocala sokolrensis, Hinpsn. Bull. Liverp. Mus. ii. p. 36 (1899) ; id. Jfat. 

 Hist. Sokotra, p. 326, pi. xx. f. 27. 



Head and thorax reddish brown mixed with grey, the vertex of 



head and base of tegulte creamy white, the latter Avith black 



medial line ; antennae with the shaft white above ; palpi white, 



the extremity of 2nd joint and the 3rd joint in-orated with brown ; 



pectus and legs white ; abdomen white dorsally tinged with i-ufous. 



Fore wing whitish suffused with rufous, the costal area grey-white 



tliiekly in-orated with dark ])rown, the terminal area grey inorated 



with blackish, the termen suffused with reddish brown except at 



apex ; antemedial line black defined on outer side by creamy white, 



oblique, slightly sinuous, a broad grey-brown band before it from 



below costa to above inner margin, its inner edge angled inwards 



at submedian fold and vein 1 ; medial area rufous except towards 



costa ; orbicular and reniform grey-brown with a silvery gloss 



defined by black, the former round, the latter slightly produced at 



upper exti'emity ; an oblique creamy white band beyond the cell 



from below costa to vein 2, defined on outer side by the black 



postmedial line, which at vein 2 is retracted to lower angle of cell, 



then obliquely incurved to inner margin and .defined on inner side 



by white ; postmedial area grey-brown with a silvery gloss and 



some blackish before the subterminal line, which is whitish, 



angled inwards at discal fold, excurved at middle and angled 



inwards at submedian fold, defined on uuter side by a brown line 



bent outwards to apex ; a terminal series of black lunules ; 



cilia fuscous brown, white at ajjcx. Hind wing creamy white 



suffused with rufous to the postmedial band except a pitch bevond 



the cell ; a blackish streak near base of inner area ; a blackish 



streak on extremity of median nervure and a diffused oblique fascia 



on discocellulars and thence to the ])ostmedial band at submedian 



fold ; postmedial band dark red-brown, its inner edge oblique to 



tornus, its outer edge extending almost to termen but leaving 



some white on termt-n above and below two black si)ots on apical 



part of termen and a large spot at middle of tcnuen with small 



