218 KOCTDID^. 



costa ; an indistinct dentate yellowish subt(!rminal line, angled 

 inwards and with fuscous suffusion beyond it at discal fold ; a 

 terminal series of small black spots. Hind wing yellowish mostlj^ 

 suffused with red and slightly irrorated with black ; two black dis- 

 coidal points ; a faint brownish medial shade ; a faint minutely 

 waved yellowish postmedial line defined on each side by black striae 

 at inner margin ; traces of a minutely dentate yellowish sub- 

 terminal line ; a terminal series of small black spots ; the underside 

 whitish with black discoidal striga and faint brownish medial, 

 postmedial, and subterminal shades. 



H((h. Madeas, Palnis {Camphell), 1 c? ; Cetlon, Nawalapitiya 

 {Pole), 1 J type ; Andamans, 1 S . Exp. 22-24 millim. 



c^. {Ceryiiea.) Botli wiugs of male normal. 



a^. Fore wing olive-brown iiTOrated with silvei'y 



scales argentescens. 



b". ¥ove wing oehreoiis suffused with rntbus. 



a^. Fore wing with black patch beyond postmedial 



line at inner iiiargin disjunct aria. 



i'*. Fore wing without black patch beyond post- 

 medial line at inner margin, 

 a^. Fore wing with oblique black mark from 

 termen just below apex to subterminal line 



at discal fold omphisalis. 



h*. Fore wing with slight oblique black bar from 



apex ochrcana, 



5334. Cerynea argentescens, n. sp. 



c . Head blackish ; thorax and abdomen pale brown tinged with 

 rufous, the teguln3 whitish ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of 

 abdomen whitish tinged with rufous, the fore tibice fuscous in front. 

 Fore wing pale olive-brown irrorated with silvery scales and with 



Fig. 56. — Cerynea argentescens, c?. 



a slight rufous tinge on basal area ; a minute black point in middle 

 of cell and two discoidal points connected by a curved striga ; post- 

 medial line slight, dark, very oblique from costa to vein 6, then 

 minutely dentate and inwardly oblique, some white points with 

 dark streaks between them beyond it on costa ; a faint pale sub- 

 terminal line, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a fine waved 

 black terminal line with small black spots in the interspaces. Hind 

 wing pale olive-broAvn with a silvery gloss ; two black discoidal 

 points ; a faint curved minutely waved whitish postmedial line with 



