276 KOCTUID^. 



margin, where it is conjoined to a cui-ved black-brown postmedial 

 band expanding into a large patch on costal area and diffused to 

 termen from below apex to vein 3 ; hind wing with black discoidal 

 spot, broad oblique sinuous band from costa to beyond middle to 

 tornus, and diffused maculate terminal band from below apex to 

 vein 2. 



Hal). LoTJBENgo Marques, Delagoa Bay {Distant), 1 $ ; 

 BECHUAisrALAND, Lake N'Gami {Lvgard), 2 $ ; Trats-svaal, 

 Pretoria {Distant), 1 6 ; Orange R. Colony, Bloemfontein 

 {JEckersley), 1 5 , Leewspruit {Ramilton), 1 S ; Cape Colony 

 {Sir A. Smith), 1 c? , Grrahamstown, 1 c? , Knysna {Trimen), IS , 

 1 5 , Eerste R. {Trimen), 16 , 1 $ , Simons Town {de la Garde), 

 1 $ . Exp. 42-50 millim. 



8082. Cerocala socotrensis. (Plate CCXXVI. fig. 16.) 



Cerocala so/cofrensis, Hiripsn. Bull. Livei-p. Mus. ii. p. 36 (1899) ; id. Nat. 

 Hist. Sokotra, p. 326, pi. xx. f. 27. 



Head and thorax reddish brown mixed Avith grey, the vertex of 

 head and base of tegidse creamy white, the latter with black 

 medial line ; antennae with the shaft white above ; palpi white, 

 the extremity of 2nd joint and the 3rd joint irrorated with brown ; 

 pectus and legs white ; abdomen white dorsally tinged with rufous. 

 Pore wing whitish suffused with ]-ufous, the costal area grey- white 

 thickly irrorated with dark brown, the terminal area grey irrorated 

 with blackish, the termen suffused with reddish brown except at 

 apex ; antemedial line black defined on outer side by creamy white, 

 oblique, slightly sinuous, a broad grey-brown band before it from 

 below costa to above inner margin, its inner edge angled inwards 

 at submedian fold and vein 1 ; medial area rufous except towards 

 costa ; orbicular and reniform grey-brown with a silvery gloss 

 defined by black, the former round, the latter slightly produced at 

 upper extremity ; an oblique creamy white band beyond the cell 

 from below costa to vein 2, defined on outer side by the black 

 postmedial line, which at vein 2 is retracted to lower angle of cell, 

 then obliquely incurved to inner margin and defined on inner side 

 by white ; postmedial area grey-brown with a silvery gloss and 

 some blackish before the subterminal line, which is whitish, 

 angled inwards at discal fold, excurved at middle and angled 

 inwards at submedian fold, defined on outer side by a brown line 

 bent outwards to apex ; a terminal series of black lunules ; 

 cilia fuscous brown, white at apex. Hind wing creamy white 

 suffused with rufous to the postmedial band excej)t a patch beyond 

 the cell ; a blackish streak near base of inner area ; a blackish 

 streak on extremity of median nervure and a diffused oblique fascia 

 on discocellulars and thence to the postmedial band at submedian 

 fold ; postmedial band dark red-brown, its inner edge oblique to 

 tornus, its outer edge extending almost to termen but leaving 

 some white on termen above and below two black spots on apical 

 part of termen and a large spot at middle of termen with small 



