EUTOMIS. — CERYX. 



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Black shot with metallic blue 



Fig. 13. — Ei/fomis minceus, J. \. 



Hind wino; with white patch below 

 veins 2 and 5. 



JIah. (Jape Colony, five specimens {T 



gulae, patagia, and sides of thorax 

 with white patches ; ab- 

 domen shot with metallic 

 green, the first four seg- 

 ments fringed with white 

 scales. Fore wing with 

 white basal point ; quad- 

 rate spots below base and 

 in end of cell; an oblique 

 patch below vein 2, a small 

 sj)ot above G, and two spots 

 between veins 3 and 5. 

 the cell and spot between 



\en). Kxn. 42 millira. 



Genus CERYX. 



Type. 



Ceryx, Wllgrn. Wien. Ent. Mon. vii. p. 140 (1863) anthraciformiK. 



A(japhthora, Meyr. P. Linn. Soc. N. S. VV. (2) i. p. 774 



( 1 886) melcDiora. 



Syvtomoides, Huipsn. Moths Ind. i. p. 209 (1892) imaon. 



Proboscis well developed ; palpi porrect and not extending beyond tlie f rons ; 

 niicl and hind tibue with minute terminal pairs of spurs, hind tibi;r rarely witli 

 two pairs. Fore wing witli vein 5 curved ; 6 from, or from below upper angle ; 

 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 stalked*. Hind wing with vein 2 from well before angle of cell; 

 3, 4, and 7 absent. 



Sect. I. Fore wing with veins 4, 5 on a long stalk ; 3 from near angle of cell. 



9. Ceryx pleurosticta, n. sp. 



2 . Black-brown ; antenna? white at tips ; irons yellowish white ; 

 spots above eyes, tegulae, patches on patagia, meso- and metathorax, 



pectus, and coxa3 yellow ; tarsi 

 Mith the 1st joint white ; ab- 

 domen with dorsal yellow ])atch 

 on 1st segment and lateral 

 patches on the next five seg- 

 ments ; the ventral surface 

 yellow. Fore wing with two 

 yellow points at base ; a hya- 

 line spot below base of cell, a 



Fig. 14. — Ccrijx plcurostkia, $, 



quadrate patch below origin of vein 2, a small spot in end of cell, 

 and spots above vein (5 and between veins 3 and 5. Hind wing 

 with hyaline patch below the cell and spot between veins 2 and 5 ; 

 the hyaline markings of both wings tinged and slightly edged 

 with yellow. 



Hah. BoENEO, Sandakan {Fryer), 1 $ type ; Labuan. E.vp. 

 80 millim. 



9 usually absent in alhimacula. 



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