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21. Ceryx decorata. (Plate I. fig. 11.) 



Syntomis decorata, Wlk. Joura. Linn. Soc, Zool. vi. p. 81) (1802) ; Kirby, 



Cat. Het. p. 90. 

 Si/ntomis Jlorina, Bull. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. xii. p. 350 (1876); Kirby, 



Oat. Het. p. 96. 



2 . Black-brown ; head, thorax, and patagia 3'ellow ; thorax with 

 yellow patches ; legs marked with yellow, 1st joint of tarsi white ; 

 abdomen with yellow bands on each segment. Fore wing with the 

 basal area yellow, the costa and veins crossing it brown ; a small 

 hyaline speck below base of cell : a large hyaline patch in end of cell 

 and oblique yellow-edged patch below vein 2 ; an elongate yellow spot 

 above vein 0, with small spot above 7 ; a small hyaline spot above 

 vein 2 and two spots between veins 3 and 5. Hind wing with 

 yello\7 patch below the cell and hyaline spot between veins 2 and 5. 



Ilab. BoKNEO, Sarawak ( Wallace), 1 2 > type Jlorina. Ed'/j. 

 28 millim. 



22. Ceryx flavibasis, n. sp. (Plate I. fig. 12.) 



Head, thorax, and abdomen black ; anteuntc white at tips ; frons, 

 tegulae, patches on patagia, meso- and metathorax, and coxic yeUow ; 

 tarsi with the 1st joint white ; abdomen with eight yellow bands in 

 male, seven in female. Eore wing witli the base yellow and a 

 slight yellow streak below costa ; a wedge-shaped hyaline patch in 

 cell ; an elongate patch below the cell extending nearly to termen, 

 a spot above base of vein 2, elongate spots above veins 3, 4, 6, 

 and 7. Hind wing with yellow patch below base of cell and 

 hyaline spot between veins 2 and 5. 



Hab. Perak (Hartert), 1 $ type; SuiiATRA, 1 c? in Coll. Staud- 

 inger. Exp. 26 millirn. 



23. Ceryx cherra. (Plate I. fig. 13.) 



Si/ntomis cherra, Moure, Lep. Atk. p. 12 (1879) ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. i. 



p. 220 ; Kirby, Cat. Het. p. 97. 

 Syntomoides qtdsqiuiiis, Swinh. A. M. N. H. {'S) xiv. p. 441 (1894) ; Hmpsn. 



Moths lud. iv. p. 465. 



Black ; frons yellowish white ; antennas tvhite at extremity ; meso- 

 and metathorax with orange patches ; abdomen with seven deep 

 orange bands in male, six in female ; the extremity orange. Fore 

 wing with a small orange mark at base ; a large elongate hyaline 

 patch below the cell, sometimes divided by a black bar ; a wedge- 

 shaped hyaline patch in cell, an elongate spot below vein 7, and 

 two spots in the interspaces between veins 3 and 5. Hind wing 

 with large hyaline patch below the cell, extending between veins 2 

 and 5 and just into the cell, leaving the costal area and a marginal 

 band tapering to tornus black. 



Hah. Assam, Khasi Hills. The types of quisqualis, d 2 ^^^ ^^r. ; 

 type t in Coll. JStaudinger. E^vp. 3G millim. 



