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medial line indistinct, dark, strongly bent outwards below costa, 

 then oblique, with minute white points beyond it on the veins, 

 some yellowish points beyond it on costa ; an oblique yellow apical 

 patch irrorated with red-brown, a series of black points just before 

 termen and line black terminal line ; a fine whitish line at base of 

 cilia. Hind wing brown-red slightly mixed with yellowish and 

 irrorated with black ; two black discoidal points ; postmedial line 

 slight, black, minutely waved with white points beyond it on the 

 veins and distinct white spot at inner margin ; a fine waved black 



Fig. 55. — Cerynea endotrichcdis, (^ . \. 



terminal line with points at the interspaces ; a tine white line at 

 base of cilia ; the underside white thickly irrorated with fuscous 

 brown, a black discoidal bar. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing without the yellowish apical patch. — Cape 

 Colony. 



Hah. Br. E. Afeica, E. Quaso (Betton), 1 o' , 1 ? type ; Cape 

 Colon y {Miss F. Barrttt), 1 $ . Eivp. 24-28 millim. 



5329. Cerynea flavibasalis, n. sp. (Plate CLV. fig. 11.) 



5 . Head and tegulaj purple-brown mixed with some yellowish ; 

 thorax yellowish tinged with rufous ; abdomen with the basal 

 segments yellowish irrorated with some red and black, the terminal 

 segments deep purple-brown ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of 

 abdomen fuscous brown with a greyish tinge. Fore wing deep 

 chocolate-brown, the basal area except towards costa yellow slightly 

 irrorated with red and black ; traces of a sinuous brown antemedial 

 line ; two black discoidal points with yellow sufi'usion between and 

 beyond them ; postmedial line slight, blackish and strongly bent 

 outwards below costa, then reduced to a series of black points with 

 minute whitish points beyond them and more prominent point at 

 vein 6, incurved at discal fold and oblique below vein 4 ; an oblique 

 yellow patch from apex to vein 6 ; a fine waved black terminal line 

 with series of small black spots in the interspaces. Hiud wing 

 deep chocolate-brown, the basal area yellow slightly irrorated with 

 red and black ; a faint minutely crenulate whitish postmedial line 

 with blackish points on its inner edge, excurved at middle ; a fine 

 waved black terminal line with series of small black spots in the 



