CERATONEMA. By Dr. M. Hering. 
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C. albifusum Hmps. Body pale ochre. Fore wing ochre, inner margin and distal margin dusted with 
whitish, with a broken median band of black scales, especially distinct on the costal margin, the posterior 
angle of the cell and on the inner margin, a submarginal row of dark dots. Hindwing whitish. Expanse of 
wings: 23 mm. North India, at an altitude of 2000 m. 
C. ferrugimeum Hmps. Reddish, head yellowish-brown. Forewing lustrous, with an indistinct curved 
postmedian band of grey scales extending very indistinctly to the distal margin below the apex. Hindwing 
dark brown with a grey gloss. Expanse of wings: 24 mm. India. 
C. rubifasale Hmps. (87 d). Head ochreous, thorax and abdomen light reddish-brown. Basal half of 
forewing light brownish reddish, distal half brown, paler at the margin, both separated between the cell and 
inner margin by a silvery white line. Hindwing brown with a yellow gloss. Expanse of wings: 20 mm. North 
India, South China, Formosa, May till June and August till September. 
C. fuscum Swh. Body ochreous, with a reddish tinge. Fore wing reddish-yellow, costal-marginal half 
dusted with purple blackish as far as the post-median line. Marginal area pale ochreous with a reddish tinge, 
dusted somewhat blackish. Postmedian line incurved at the median fold and below the cell. Hindwing pale 
ochreous. Expanse of wings: 22—26 mm. North India. 
C. caustiplaga Hmps. Body brown, with silvery scales, abdomen light brown. Eorewing red-brown, 
strewn with purple silvery scales, a light brownish-red spot between veins 2 and 5, with an oblique band from 
its inner side to the inner margin. A brownish-red spot at the apex. Hindwing red-brown. Expanse of wings: 
28—34 mm. — Larva pale yellowish-green, with yellow oblique streaks and a bluish-white dorsal line edged 
with orange, with yellow, black-spined appendages. Assam. 
C. fasciatum Hmps. Body purple brown, abdomen and hindwing paler. Forewing purple brown, with 
a large pile spot beyond the upper cell-angle and a reddish spot on the distal half of the inner margin. Expanse 
of wings: 22 mm. Sikkim. 
C. pallidimotum Hmps. Body purple brown, abdomen and hindwing paler. Forewing purple brown, 
with a large purple spot beyond the upper cell-angle and a reddish spot on the distal half of the inner margin. 
Expanse of wings: 22 mm. Sikkim. 
C. albidivisum Hmps. (87 d). Head and thorax pale rusty brown, abdomen brown. Forewing with a 
pale reddish basal area, extending at the costal margin to %, at the inner margin to %, at the distal edge of 
it there is a white dot at the upper cell-angle, and a white line from the lower cell-angle to the inner margin, 
marginal area dark brown. Expanse of wings: 24 mm. Sikkim. 
Note: C. roseum cle Joann, is probably better ranged under Birthama. 
C. imitatrix sp. n. (87 d). Forewing olive brown; the whole basal part as far as the centre of the inner 
margin as far as obliquely to the cell-end below the cell is greyish black, besides a small interior and large exterior 
blackish spot above it. A light distally curved subapical line bordered with more or less dark on both sides 
extends from 3 / 4 of the costal margin to the tornus. Base with a characteristic silvery white dot. Hindwing 
blackish; all the fringes brownish olive. Expanse of wings: 25 mm. North India, China. Jf type from Kwangsien 
in the British Museum. — The species strikingly resembles Heterogenea dentata Obth. (Vol. II. pi. 49 k), especially 
owing to the silvery basal dot. But vein 7 of the fore wing arises in the latter species distally to 10. Vein 11 
is straight in both species. 
C. nigribasale sp. n. (87 d). Body greyish-brown, blackish beneath. Forewing with a blackish median 
line from the costal margin beyond the centre over the cross-vein to the centre of the inner margin, incurvate 
at the cross-vein and below the cell. The whole area basad to it is blackish-violet, warming into brown below 
the cell, distal half brown, parted by a uniformly slightly bent postmedian line. Hindwing and under surface 
blackish-grey. Fringe with a light basal line and a light line of partition. Expanse of wings: 25 mm. Burma. 
$ type from Fort Hpimaw (British Museum). 
C. palpiferum sp. n. (90 e). Palpus of more than double the diameter of the eye, projecting far beyond 
the head. Forewing similar to that of bilineata (87 d), but with a more oblique margin and a more rounded 
tornus, both the transverse lines brown, much more slanting, but little divergent towards the inner margin; 
ground-colour metallic golden yellow. Hindwing pale yellow, with a golden yellow fringe. Expanse of wings: 
16 mm. Khasis, in October. Jf type in the Tring Museum. 
C. concavum sp. n. (88 a). Forewing feebly concave at the margin below the apex, 7 separated from 
8—10. Forewing as well as body reddish-grey, coarsely dusted, with a purple brown cross-vein spot and a 
similar indistinct postmedian line; opposite to either of them at the costal margin there is a small yellow spot. 
Hindwing pale yellow, purple brown at the tornus, where we notice a tuft of thick sp itulate brownish-red fringe- 
scales. Expanse of wings: 18 mm. Burma, q type from Fort Hpimaw (British Museum). 
albifusum. 
ferrugine- 
um. 
rubifasale. 
fuscum. 
caustiplaga. 
fasciatum. 
pallidi- 
nolum. 
albi¬ 
divisum. 
imitatrix. 
nigribasale. 
'palpiferum. 
concavum. 
