222 NOCTUID.T:. 



wing black-brown with a chocolate tinge ; au ochreous fascia ou 

 costal area narrowing to apex ; traces of a minutely waved dark 

 postmedial line oblique towards costa and below vein 4. Hind wing 

 uniform black-brown with a chocolate tinge : the underside purplish 

 brown tinged with grey and irrorated with whitish. 



Hah. Gaboon, Ogowe K,., type tin Coll. Holland. Exp.2-^m\\\\m.. 



5340, Cerynea plagiostola. (Plate CLV. fig. 20.) 

 Zurobata plagiostola, Hmpsn, Moths Ind. iv. p. 518 (1896). 



5 . Head red-brown slightly mixed with grey ; thorax brown 

 suffused with violaceous white ; abdomen purplish red tinged with 

 grey, the base suffused with violaceous white, the 2nd segment 

 with white line ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen 

 brownish white, the tibiae with a purplish tinge. Fore wing 

 chocolate-red, the costal area broadly suffused with violaceous 

 white to subterminal line, extending to inner margin on basal area; 

 a slight curved white subbasal line ; autemedial line white, angled 

 outwards below costa and at median nervure and inwards in cell, 

 oblique below the cell ; a black point in middle of cell ; reniform 

 defined by wiiite, inwardly oblique, triangular, a white streak 

 beyond its upper extremity ; postmedial line fine, white, strongly 

 excurved from costa to vein 4, then bent inwards to just below 

 lower angle of cell and erect to inner margin, some white points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line slight and whitish from costa 

 to vein 6, angled outwards at vein 7, then an oblique white streak 

 to tips of cilia at vein 4, then indistinct, dark, waved ; a series of 

 black points before termen, defined on inner side by a white line 

 from apex to discal fold, bent outwards on to cilia at apex ; cilia 

 with, a fine pale line at base. Hind wing chocolate-red, the basal 

 inner area violaceous white ; an indistinct carved dark antemedial 

 line ; postmedial line white, excurved to vein 4, then incurved ; 

 trace:! of a pale waved subterminal line ; a series of black points 

 just before termen ; a fine pale line at base of cilia ; the underside 

 ochreous white suff'used with red, a series of black points before 

 termen. 



Hah. BhutXn, 2500' {Dudgeon), 1 $ type. Exjy. 26 millim. 



5341. Cerynea fissilinea, n. sp. 



c5' . Head, thorax, and abdomen rufous ; a pure white mark 

 between autcnnoe ; the meso- and metathorax with some black 

 scales ; pectus, legs, and ventral surface of abdomen white slightly 

 tinged with rufous. Fore wing rufous, the costal area irrorated 

 with fuscous brown ; a tine oblique white subbasal line from costa 

 to base at submedian fold ; aitemedial line fine, white defined on 

 outer side by black scales, oblique, straight ; a black and white 

 discoidal bar with oblique white line from it to inner margin ; 

 postmedial line white, acutely angled outwards below costa, then 



