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spot below it ; cilia with some black-brown beyond the two spots 

 at middle of termen and at tornus. Underside white ; fore wing 

 with oblique black fascia from discocellulars to submedian fold, 

 large black apical patch with oblique band from it to inner margin, 

 the terminal area grey-brown ; hind wing with small black spots 

 on discocellulars and bej^ond lower angle of cell, a reddish brown 

 postmedial band from costa to termen at vein 1 where it becomes 

 a blackish patch, its outer edge excurved on costal half, black 

 patches on termen below apex and at middle. 



Sab. SoKOTBA, Jena-agahan {0.-Grant^,l $, Hadibu Plains 

 {O.- Grant), 5 c? , 5 $ type. Exp. 38-46 millim. 



*8083. Cerocala orientalis. (Plate CCXXVI. fig. 17.) 



Cerocala orientalis, de Joan. Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. 1912, p. 287. 



5 . Head and thorax brown mixed with some greyish ; palpi 

 white with a slight brown streak on 2nd joint and the 3rd joint 

 brown ; antennai whitish ; pectus white with black spots below the 

 eyes ; legs white, the tibiae and tarsi tinged with brown ; abdomen 

 white dorsally irrorated with brown. Fore wing whitish thickly 

 irrorated and in parts suffused with brown ; some bluish white on 

 costal area to beyond middle and on terminal area below apex ; a 

 rather oblique black antemedial line with brown suffusion before 

 it with a sinuous series of silvery points on it except towards costa, 

 some whitish beyond it except towards costa ; orbicular a small 

 black spot with some silvery scales on it ; reniform brown defined 

 by blackish, a silvery point at its upper extremity and some silver 

 near its inner and lower edges, a whiter patch beyond it ; post- 

 medial line black, oblique to vein 2, then retracted to below angle 

 of cell and obliquely incurved to inner margin, some brown suffusion 

 beyond it with an oblique silver line on it from below costa to 

 vein 3 and some silver in submedian interspace ; a whitish sub- 

 terminal line angled inwards below costa and at discal fold and 

 oblique below vein 4, the area before it dark brown to vein 3 and 

 beyond it obliquely to apex ; a waved black terminal line ; cilia 

 brownish. Hind wing fuscous brown ; an oblique white medial 

 band from costa to vein 2 where it ends in a point ; an oblique 

 white bar from vein 2 to termen at submedian fold ; cilia white, 

 black-brown between vein 4 and submedian fold. Underside of 

 fore wing white tinged with rufous towards base, an oblique 

 blackish discal band from below costa to submedian fold where it 

 joins the blackish terminal area with curved inner edge and some 

 whitish on it between vein 4 and submedian fold ; hind wing 

 white with black discoidal lunule and spot above it on costa, the 

 terminal area black with wedge-shaped white marks from apex 

 and towards tornus. 



Hah. Cochin-China, Cap. St. Jacques {Fouq^iiet)., type t $ in 

 Coll. de Joannis. Exp. 44 millim. 



