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~ SELENIS, GuinSe. 



Selenis lauta. (Plate XXXIV. fig. 1.) 

 Selenis lauta, Butler, Ann. § Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 294 (1878). 



Allied to 8. costalis of Natal : wings above pale cupreous brown ; a broad white costal 

 border occupying nearly half the primaries and the basal fifth of the secondaries ; two parallel 

 dusky white-edged discal lines ; a marginal series of white-edged black dots ; fringe grey : 

 secondaries with white costa : head and thorax white ; collar dark brown ; abdomen pale brown. 

 Under surface sericeous white; primaries sordid towards the costa, with indications of two 

 parallel discal greyish lines ; costa near apex marked with three black dots • all the wings with 

 a submarginal series of black dots and grey fringe : body below creamy white. Expanse of 

 wings 8 lines. 



Yokohama {Jonas). 



CAPNODES, GuenSe. 



Capnodes cinerea. (Plate XXXIV. fig. 9.) 



Capnodes cinerea, Butler, Ann. <Sf Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 294 (1878). 



$ . Apparently slaty grey, striated with blackish ; primaries with the basal two thirds of 

 costa creamy whitish, interrupted by blackish spots and (opposite to the end of the cell) by a 

 ferruginous spot ; a similar spot close to the base ; a small fulvous spot in the cell ; reniform 

 spot fulvous internally, white externally, divided by a black line ; apical border pale tawny ; 

 fringe alternately sordid white and grey : secondaries with pale costa ; fringe as in primaries : 

 body blackish, collar black ; prothorax and base of abdomen crossed by white belts. Under 

 surface ferruginous ; costa of primaries streaked and spotted with ochreous ; a black oval spot in 

 the cell, and a fusiform spot closing it, both bordered with creamy white ; fringe as above. 

 Expanse of wings 1 inch 4 lines. 

 Yokohama {Jonas). 



Capnodes cremata. (Plate XXXIV. fig. 10.) 



Capnodes cremata, Butler, Ann. Sf Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 295 (1878). 



? . Shining slaty grey, brown towards the borders, crossed by two central parallel lines of 

 black spots ; a discal series of white dots parallel to the outer line, and terminating near the 

 anal angle of secondaries in a white TF-shaped character ; outer margin undulated, black, spotted 

 with white ; a continuous series of black crescents on the fringe, which is also blackish exter- 

 nally ; costa of primaries irrorated with testaceous, and crossed by four or five angular spots of 

 the same colour ; from the outermost spot a zigzag pale greyish black-edged line runs across the 

 disk : secondaries with a discal black-edged macular testaceous line : body greyish brown : 



