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ARCT1AD.E. 



especially on basal half of inner area and on termen ; the tufts 

 of raised scales in cell near base and at middle large, silvery and 

 black mixed ; the antemedial line only visible from cell to inner 

 margin and obliquely curved ; a pale rufous spot on middle of 

 costa ; the postmedial line punctiform, bent outwards below costa 

 and at vein 3 strongly recurved ; a trisinuate subterminal line. 

 Hind wing tinged with pale reddish brown. 



Hab. S. Nigeria, Old Calabar (Cro/iijrton), 2 d type. Exp. 

 16 millim. 



17 b. Celama enphsea. (Plate XXII. fig. 26.) 



Celama enphcea, Hmpsn. A. M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 177 (1901). 



S ■ Head, thorax, and abdomen grey irro rated with brown. Fore 

 wing grey-brown thickly irrorated with brown and black ; faint 

 traces of an oblique antemedial line from costa to submedian fold ; the 

 tufts of scales at middle and end of cell fuscous ; the postmedial 

 line black, minutely dentate, incurved below vein 3 ; a line dark 

 terminal line. Hind wing grey-brown with fine dark terminal line. 

 Hab. W. China, Moupin (Kricheidorf), 1 6 type. Exp. 

 20 millim. 



18 a. Celama furvitincta, n. sp. (Plate XXIII. fig. 1.) 



c? . Head, thorax, and abdomen white tinged with rufous ; tarsi 

 dark brown ringed with white. Fore wing white tinged with 

 rufous and irrorated with black ; antemedial line rather diffused, 

 blackish, slightly excurved below costa and inciirved in cell ; tufts 

 of blackish scales in upper part of middle of cell and at upper 

 angle ; two blackish points on costa above end of cell ; postmedial 

 line black, punctiform, more continuous on inner area, slightly 

 angled inwards at discal fold and incurved below vein 4 ; a sub- 

 terminal series of rather diffused black points, oblique from costa 

 to below vein 7, and slightly incurved at veins 5 and 2 ; a terminal 

 series of small rather triangular black spots ; cilia with a series of 

 blackish spots near base and a fine line near tips. Hind wing 

 white tinged with red-brown, the veins with a few black scales. 

 Hab. Sierra Leone {Clements), 2 6 type. Exp. 18 millim. 



18 b. Celama mesonephele, n. sp. (Plate XXIII. fig. 2.) 



3 . Head white ; palpi irrorated with fuscous ; antennae 

 brownish ; thorax white irrorated with black ; pectus and legs 

 tinged with brown, the tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen 

 white tinged with red-brown. Fore wing white sparsely irrorated 

 with blackish and with patches of thick black irroration on basal 

 costal area and in below and above end of cell; antemedial line 

 rather diffused, black, angled inwards on the veins and oblique 

 below submedian fold ; tufts of blackish scales in end of cell ami 

 at upper angle ; an excurved postmedial series of black points on 



