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black spot before it in submedian interval; small black terminal dots; hind wing whitish, almost entirely 
suffused and irrorated with fiery red; two black cell dots; an indistinct maculate outer line excurved to vein 3, 
then incurved; a curved series of subterminal blackish spots. From the Aroa River, British New Guinea; the 
albilauta. Angabunga River, and the Mambare River ab. albilauta ab. nov. (24 f) instead of the black blotch in sub¬ 
median interval has a much larger blotch of white scales reaching from outer line to subterminal; the lunules 
of outer line filled in with white, and those of the inner line less prominently; the orbicular dot white centred, 
and those on the discocellular also with some whitish scales; white dots on costa at the origin of the lines; 
hindwing with the lunules of outer line white; the type from near the Oetakwa River, Snow Mts., Dutch New 
flavipennis. Guinea, (A. S. Meek) ; a second aberration flavipennis ab. nov. (24 f) has both wings dull yellowish with the 
lines dull red and distinct, there being no dark shading, and instead of the diffuse black blotch a quadrate 
white one with a whitish lunule above and below it; the centres of the stigmata white; head, thorax, and abdomen 
yellow; the palpi red brown; the type, also a from Kumasi River, British New Guinea, June 1907 (A. S. Meek). 
The types of both aberrations in the Tring Museum. 
usiula. C. ustula Hmps. (23 b). Forewing yellowish suffused with rufous, sprinkled with a few black scales; 
the costal edge fuscous; lines rufous; inner line indistinct, sinuous; two black cellspots; a diffuse 
median shade, angled on median vein; outer line pale, indistinct, with rufous on each side, bent outwards 
below costa, then incurved below vein 4, with a blackish spot beyond it on inner margin; a dentate yellow 
subterminal line, inangled and followed by fuscous suffusion at cell fold; hindwing yellowish suffused with red 
and sprinkled with black; a double dark cellspot; a brownish median shade; a faint crenulate yellow¬ 
ish outer line with black striae on each side at inner margin; a dentate yellowish subterminal line. Found 
in the Palni Hills, Madras, Ceylon, the Andaman Islands. 
Subsect. B. Wings of <J without rough hair at base. 
argentes- C. argentescens Hmps. (23b). $ Forewing pale olive brown irrorated with silvery scales; the basal 
cens ■ area with a slight rufous tinge; a black dot in middle of cell and two at end connected by a curved 
striga; outer line ill-defined, dark, very oblique from costa to vein 6, then inwardly oblique and denticulate; 
a faint pale subterminal line; hindwing similar; the outer line whitish with traces of black dots on its inner 
edge; the $ has the fore wing rufous to outer line and the terminal area browner; the hindwing rufous along 
inner marginal area nearly to termen. Ihilo Laut; Solomon Ids.; New Guinea. 
disjunctaria. C. disjunctaria Walk. ( = mundicolaria Walk.) (23b). Forewing pale ochreous tinged with rufous; 
inner line marked only on inner margin near base, above denoted by black spots on costa and in each fold; a 
double black cellspot, preceded by a black dot; median line brownish, ill-defined, excurved beyond cell; outer 
line finely dark, externally whitish edged, inangled on cellfold and incurved below vein 4, followed on inner 
margin by a black patch; a pale waved subterminal line, outwardly shaded with blackish, inangled on cell 
fold; fringe fuscous; hindwing similar. Sarawak, Borneo; also in New Guinea. 
omphisalis. C. omphisalis Walk. (23 b). Forewing ochreous white, tinged with rufous and dusted with fuscous; 
inner line marked by black dots on costa and submedian fold; two black cell dots; outer line from black costal 
dot, pale and ill-defined, beyond cell defined by black scales on each side, oblique inwards below vein 4; sub¬ 
terminal line pale, indistinct; an irregular diffuse oblique black mark from just below apex to cell fold; 
hindwing similar, but the terminal area beyond subterminal line browner. Sarawak, Borneo. 
ochreana. C. ochreana Beth.-Baker (23 b). Forewing ochreous with a rufous tinge and sprinkled with blackish; 
a subbasal black dot and striga on costa; inner line marked only by black dots on costa and in cell; a black 
and white point at lower angle of cell with a dark shade above it on discocellular; a black spot at 
middle of costa; outer line formed of fuscous dots and striae, slightly defined externally by whitish, 
oblique from costa to vein 3, then slightly inbent; an oblique black bar from apex; subterminal line 
indistinct, pale and waved, with some fuscous before it towards inner margin; hindwing similar. Dinawa, Bri¬ 
tish New Guinea. 
41. Genus; Obana Walk. 
Differs from Cerynea in the absence of the prolonged tuft of hair on the patagia, and in the simple 
structure of the fore tibiae of the J. Type 0. vagipennata Walk. 
