.^SO Mr. G. T. Betliuue- Baker on 



LXTII, — Descriptions of new African lleterocera. 

 By G. T. Bethune-Baker, F.L.S., F.Z.S. 



Syntomidae. 

 Ceryx flava, sp. n. 



^ . Antennre dark brown. Head, tliovax, and abdomen 

 uniform chrome-yellow. Legs dark brown. Primaries 

 brown where not hyaline ; all the cell and nearly all below 

 the cell to vein 1 a hyaline, angle of veins 7 and 8 hyaline, 

 internervular area between 6 and 7 hyaline for two-thirds, 

 area between 5 and 6 nearly filled in with brown but not 

 quite, a hyaline ovate spot on each side of vein 4, angle of 

 vein 2 hyaline. Secondaries with basal area yellow, outer 

 half greyish brown, no hyaline spots at all. 



Expanse 29 mm. 



Hab. N'Dalla Tando, N. Angola, 2700 feet ; November 

 {Ansorge). 



Type in my collection. 



Syntomis tripunctata, sp. n. 



Antennse with white tips. Head, thorax, and abdomen 

 uniform greenish black. Primaries greenish black, with a 

 small hyaline spot in the cell, one above vein 6, and one 

 below it, below vein 4. Secondaries, a minute dot beyond 

 the cell. 



Expanse 23 mm. 



Hah, N'Dallo Tando, N.Angola, 2700 feet; December 

 [Ansorge). 



Type in my collection. 



Syntomis diss'wiilis, sp. n. 



Antennae all black. Head, thorax, and abdomen blue- 

 black, the latter with the two middle segments dull red, with 

 a similar coloured fine lateral line from them to the thorax. 

 Both wings bluish black. Primaries with a Iiyaline quad- 

 rate spot below the cell, a large spot filling the apical half of 

 the cell, below which is a large subquadrate spot, a spot 

 above vein 6, two ovate spots, one on each side of vein 4. 

 Secondaries : a large basal spot extending into the cell, 

 another beyond the cell divided by vein 3. Fringes to both 

 wings brown. 



Expanse 33 mm. 



Hab. Laikipia, East Equatorial Africa ; June [Jackson). 



Type in my collection. 



Allied to 8. consimiliSy Hmpsn. 



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