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Ceratrichia aurea, sp. n. (Plate XXXV. figs. 11 <$ , 12 $ .) 



Male. Upper side : fore wing dark brown with a series of about 

 nine semitransparent pale yellow spots placed almost in a circle ; 

 two large ones at the end of the cell, one each in cells 2, 3, 4, the 

 rest, which are smaller, being placed on the costa and beyond the 

 end of the cell ; the base of the costa as also the base of the inner 

 margin and discal area up to the cell-wall is dark ochreous. 

 Hind wing dark ochreous with rather less than the costal half 

 dark brown. Under side — fore wing : costal and apical areas 

 dark ochreous, the series of circular spots as above, four subapical 

 silvery spots bordered with dark brown ; on the centre of discal 

 area below the series of spots is a large pale yellow patch ; the 

 rest of the wing is brown. An anteciliary brown line. Cilia 

 ochreous, tipped with fuscous. Hind wing ochreous with a 

 number of irregular silver spots narrowly margined with brown. 

 Cilia, ochreous. Thox-ax thickly covered with ochreous haix-s. 

 Abdomen ochreous, slightly fuscous at the base of each segment. 

 Legs ochreous spotted with fuscous. 



Female. Upper side : fore wing differs from that of male by the 

 costal and discal areas being without the ochreous, and on the 

 hind wing the ochreous area is much reduced and paler. Under 

 side : fore wing much as above and slightly yellowish towards 

 centre of inner margin. Hind wing marked as in male, pale 

 yellow, and with costal margin broadly brownish. 



Expanse, o" $ , 1J inch. 



Hah. Upper Kasai district, Coixgo Fi'ee State. 



Types, Mus. Druce. 



Neax-est to Ceratrichia argyrosticta Plotz *, but the arrange- 

 ment of the semihyaline spots is quite diffex^ent. 



Cexides artopta, sp. n. (Plate XXXV. fig. 13, <$ .) 



Male. Allied to C. ccenira Hew. f 



Upper side differs by the central pearly white band on the fore 

 wing being much nai-rower, divided into three spots by the brown 

 veixxs, the spot in cell 1 being the smallest. The three subapical 

 spots are not in a line as is usual in C. ccenira. On the under 

 side the fore wing is marked as above and is laved with pinkish 

 towards the apex, but is without the yellow costal patch of 

 C. ccenira. The hixxd wing is wholly brown, the basal two-thirds 

 beixxg darkest. Thorax and abdomen brown above and below. 

 Legs brown. The sides of the palpi axxd the hairs around the 

 eyes are white ; the fronts of the palpi are dark brown, thickly 

 sprinkled with white hairs. Head bx-own. 



Expanse 2-j- 1 ^- inches. 



Hob. Upper Kasai district, Congo Free State (P. Landbeck). 



Type, Mus. Druce. 



Distingxxished at once by the dark under side of hind wing. 



* Jpaustus argyrosticta Plotz, S. E. Z. vol. xl. p. 358 (1879) 



f Hesjpcria ueanira Hew. Exot. Butt. vol. iv. Hcspcria, pi. ii. iigs. 15, 16 (1867). 



