CELIPTERA, 135 



*7916. Celiptera thericles. (Plate CCXXV. fig. 4.) 



Thermesia thericles, Scliaus, Insec. Inseit. Menstr. i. p. 2.3 (1913). 



$ . Head and tegulae black-brown mixed with brownish white ; 

 thorax brownish grey with two minute black spots at base of 

 patagia and black bars at middle ot patagia and on mesothorax ; 

 palpi and pectus in front tinged with rufous ; abdomen grey tinged 

 with reddish and irrorated with a few black scales, the ventral 

 surface whiter. Fore wing grey with a reddish tinge and irrorated 

 with a few black scales on basal half ; the costal edge black with a 

 fine pale streak below it on basal half ; a black-broAvn subbasal 

 patch from costa to submedian fold with the pale waved subbasal 

 line on it ; antemedial line white defined on inner side by black- 

 brown and on outer by a black-brown band interrupted at the veins 

 and submedian fold, oblique and slightly sinuous to vein 1, then 

 bent ovitwards, an incomplete black-brown ocellus with black- 

 brown centre before it above inner margin ; a minute black spot in 

 middle of cell and quadrate whitish discoidal patch defined on inner 

 side by a brown line and with brown striga in centre ; a double 

 brown medial line from costa to the discoidal patch, oblique and 

 dentate below the cell ; another indistinctly double medial line 

 brown filled in in parts with whitish, oblique to vein 7 beyond the 

 cell then waved ; postmedial line fine, double, red-brown filled in 

 with white, bent outwards and bidentate below costa, angled 

 inwards and with black spot beyond it at discal fold, then oblique 

 and angled inwards at vein 1 ; an oblique red-brown subterminal line 

 arising from apex and closely approximated to the postmedial line 

 below vein 7, a series of black points beyond it on the veins and 

 a dentate whitish line before termen ; a yellow line at base of cilia. 

 Hind Aving grey tinged with brown and irrorated with fuscous except 

 on basal area ; four indistinct dark lines on medial area ; postmedial 

 line slight, red-brown defined on outer side by white, slightly waved 

 and oblique to submedian fold and bent inwards to inner margin ; a 

 brownish subterminal line defined on outer side by grey, followed 

 by a series of black points on the veins witli whitish marks beyond 

 them ; a yellowish line at base of cilia. Underside of fore wing 

 red-brown with black discoidal bar and subterminal shade ; hind 

 wing white irrorated with brown, a black discoidal point, traces of 

 postmedial line and subterminal shade. 



Hah. Fe. GtUIAna, St. Jean Maroni {Schaus), type f $ in U.S. 

 Nat. Mus. i:xp. 48 millim. 



Sect. II. Femora and tibiae of male and underside of hind wing smootlily 

 scaled. 



A. Fore wing with the postmedial line incurved valina. 



B. Fore wing with tbe postmedial line oblique frusUdum. 



0. Fore wing with the postmedial line excurved codo. 



*7917. Celiptera valina. (Plate CCXXV. fig. 5.) 



Mods valina, Schaus, A. M. N. H. (7) viii. p. 86 (1901). 

 5 . Head and thorax fuscous broAvn mixed with grey, the pectus 



