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fold, incurved below vein 3 ; a series of small black spots just 

 before termen. Hind wing pale ocbreous tinged in parts with 

 rufous and slightly irrorated with black ; the male with tuft of 

 brown hair below base of cell ; two black discoidal points ; post- 

 medial line black, incurved at discal fold and bent inwards below 

 vein 3 ; a minutely waved yellowish subterminal line defined on 

 each side by rufous suffusion ; a series of black points just before 



.Fig. 54. — Cerynea trichjh:(sic, (J. \. 



termen ; the underside yellowish white, the costal area from middle 

 and the apical half of terminal area tinged with brown, a black 

 discoidal striga, faint medial line, and curved postraedial line. 



Ab. 1. Both wings with the terminal area browner. 



Hah. SiEKRA Lkone {Clements), 2 d' , 2 $ tyjjc ; Gold Coast, 

 Kumasi {Whiteside), 1 5 ; Sudan, Blue Nile {Ftoiver), 1 § . Exp. 

 18-20 millim. 



b^. Fore wing of male with some rough liair on inner basal area; hind 

 wiug normal. 

 a2. Fore wing suffused with pui-ple-brown, typically 



with yellow apical patch eiidotricliaUs. 



b-. Fore wing purple-brown, the base and an apical 



patch yellow flavibasalis. 



c". Fore wmg with the costal and leruiinal areas 

 pni-ple-brown, the rest of wing yellow suffused 



with fiery red ignearia. 



d". Fore wing yellow suli'used with fiery red. 



«■*. Fore wing with the costal area purple-brown... rubra. 

 P. Fore wing with the co.stal area not purple- 

 brown. 

 «■*. Fore wing with small black spot in middle of 



cell and large subterminal spot above vein 1. perrubra. 

 b^. Fore wing with two black discoidal points 



and without subterminal spot i ustida. 



5328. Cerynea endotrichalis, n. sp. 



Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish red, the last suffused with 

 fuscous except at base ; palpi and fore legs blackish. Eore wing 

 brown-red slightly mixed M-ith yellowish and irrorated with black ; 

 traces of a blackish autemedial line, oblique from costa to median 

 nervure and with blackish spot beyond it in cell ; a curved black 

 discoidal striga slightly defined on outer side by jellowish ; a faint 

 oblique dark line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; post- 



