CELAMA. 393 



8 b. Celama niphostena. (Plate XXII. fig. 14.) 

 Puliothripo niphostena, Hrnpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 312 (1902). 



J . Head and thorax white, the palpi except at tips, and antennae 

 except at base black, the prothorax with black patch, the meta thorax 

 with a pair of black spots ; pectus and legs mostly fuscous; abdomen 

 fuscous, whitish at base. Fore wing silvery white ; a triangular 

 subbasal black patch on costa ; antemedial line waved, angled out- 

 wards in suhmedian fold, then oblique, a quadrate black patch 

 beyond it on costa before the irregular medial line which ends in a 

 black patch on inner margin connected with the postmedial line, 

 which arises from a triangular patch on costa, is excurved and 

 reduced to points at middle and angled inwards in suhmedian fold; 

 suhterminal line arising from the costal patch, strongly angled out- 

 wards at vein 7 and inwards at discal and submedian folds, the area 

 beyond it black-brown except at apex. Hind wing whitish, the 

 terminal area suffused with brown ; the underside with the costal 

 and terminal areas suffused with brown, a diffused brown medial 

 line with black discoidal spot on it showing through to upperside. 



$ . Hind wing entirely suffused with red-brown. 



Hah. Natal, Durban {A. T. Cooke, Leirjli), 4 tf , 4 $ type. 

 Exp. 24 millim. 



10. Celama cristulalis, insert 



Nola cristatula var. kindervateri, Schawerda, Wien. Jahresber. Entom. 

 Ver. xviii. p. 39 (1907). 



Fore wing smoky brown. — Tirol. 



10 a. Celama mesotherma. (Plate XXII. fig. 15.) 



Celama mesotherma, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (8) iv. p. 349 (1909). 



Head, thorax, and abdomen white tinged with rufous ; palpi with 

 the scales fringing the joints tipped with black ; tibise and the 

 tarsi ringed with blackish. Fore wing white irrorated with rufous 

 and some fuscous ; a subbasal black point on costa ; antemedial line 

 brown defined on inner side by white, angled outwards below costa, 

 then oblique; medial area suffused with rufous, the tufts of scales 

 at middle and upper angle of cell dark with oblique elliptical 

 brownish patches above them from costa ; postmedial line blackish 

 and somewhat punctiform, defined on outer side by white, slightly 

 bent outwards below r costa, oblique to vein 4, then incurved and 

 again excurved above inner margin ; suhterminal line white defined 

 on inner side by blackish scales with rufous suffusion before them, 

 angled outwards at vein 7, excurved at middle and ending at tornus ; 

 a punctiform dark terminal line ; cilia white mixed with some 

 rufous and fuscous. Hind wins: white tinged with ochreous brown 



