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CELAMA. By Dr. A. Seitz. 
sokotrensis. 
flaviciliata. 
megasema. 
/ urvitincia. 
phaeocras- 
pis. 
squalida. 
pumila. 
melalopha. 
concinna. 
internella. 
melanosce- 
lis. 
argyropasth 
mesonephe- 
Ic. 
melaleuca. 
niphostena. 
mcridiona- 
lis. 
C. sokotrensis Hmps. (8 cl), from the Island of Sokotra, in front of Cape Guardafui, is extraordinarily 
small; on the forewing which is very feebly darkened by brownish, the antemedian line is almost rectangularly 
broken and the postmedian line is notched. 
C. flaviciliata Hmps. (8e) is not larger, but browner than sokotrensis. The broken antemedian line 
is only indicated, the sinuate postmedian line is composed of punctiform shadows. Besides the margin is 
brown and a brown punctiform is in the cell. Hindwing brownish. Sierra Leone. 
C. megasema Hmps. (8 e). Similar to the preceding, only a broad distinct median shadow before 
which in the cell-end there is a thick brown punctiform spot in a white halo. Gold Coast. 
C. furvitincta Hmps. (8 s) is somewhat larger, the cellular dot is finer, but still very distinct. Between 
the cell-end and the margin the forewing is crossed by 2 chains of dots, the proximal one of which is irregular 
and interrupted. Sierra Leone. 
C. phaeocraspis Hmps. (8e) is much more intensely marked than the preceding; at the base of the 
costa and along the margin blackish shadows; on the forewing an antemedian and a postmedian curved transverse 
line, in the cell-end and above it one brown dot each. West Africa (Nigeria) and East Africa. 
C. squalida Stgr. (= musculalis Saalm., fraterna Mr., ceylonica Hmps., vanhasseltii Heyl., desmotes 
Trnr.) This form being more individually than geographically variable has already been figured in Yol. II, 
pi. 10 g and dealt with at large (p. 48). Almost in every country where it was found it has been differently 
named. It is one of the smallest species. In the forewing the 3 transverse stripes are mostly broad and distinct, 
the proximal one below the cell distally angular, the median one being traversed by light, the distal one generally 
composed of punctiform shadows. One of the more common species, distributed over the tropics and the warmer 
temperate districts of the Old World. From Southern Spain and Madagascar through India and Australia 
to the Pacific Ocean. 
C. pumila Snell. (= spreta Btlr., tetrophthalma Meyr., minuta Hmps., hampsoni Ky.) (Yol. X, 
pi. 13 g) is allied to squalida, likewise widely distributed in the Indo-Australian Region, touching the Ethiopian 
Region in Sokotra. Chiefly distinguished from squalida by the brownish cover on the light places of the fore wing. 
C. melalopha Hmps. (Se). Here the forewing is so completely covered by brownish, that an antemedian 
and a postmedian curved chain of dots is but feebly discernible; between them there are very dull, hardly 
darker nebulous stripes. West Africa (Accra). 
C. concinna Hmps. is somewhat larger, the whitish forewing tinted with a reddish brown, the costa 
towards the base darker. The transverse lines are undulate, the cellular dot is small. Before the apex a small 
costal spot, before the white subterminal line there is a brownish tinge. Otherwise very similar to melalopha. 
British Central Africa. 
C. internella Wkr. (= pascua Swh., quadrimaculata Heyl.) (Vol. X, pi. 13 b) is more intensely marked 
than the preceding; at the costal margin large brown spots from which the transverse stripes proceed. The 
white ground-colour only shows through in the basal and central areas above the hind-margin. Hindwing 
brown. — The larva is yellow, in front and behind of a bright red, on the centre of the dorsum and on the 
sides marked black; it lives in the stalks of Rubus and Duria. Widely distributed from South Africa to South 
India and Australia, frequently not rare. 
C. melanoscelis Hmps. (8 e), from West and South Africa, only exhibits yet the two large dark brown 
costal spots, a small cellular dot and dull antemarginal darker portions. 
C. argyropasta Hmps. (8 e). The white forewing is only yet crossed by the median transverse stripe 
from before the centre of the costal margin to behind the centre of the hind-margin. A white undulate stripe 
extends through the brown marginal band. Hindwing brownish. From the Gold Coast (Bibionaha). 
C. mesonephele Hmps. (8 e) is similar to argyropasta and from the same patria, but the median transverse 
stripe extends from before the centre of the costal margin through the cell and then proximad, thus contrary 
to the preceding. Instead of the postmedian line a row of dots. Larger than argyropasta. Bibionaha. 
C. melaleuca Hmps. (8f). Forewing chalky white, very feebly irrorated with grey; the antemedian 
line is angular, the median line undulate, and the postmeclian line interrupted; hindwing tinted with a dull 
brownish; dark marginal dots. Uganda. — The habitus and colouring is somewhat similar to that of Nola 
fovifera (8 a), but the transverse lines of the forewing run differently. 
C. niphostena Hmps. (8 f). Thick dark brown dentate lines through the entirely white forewing proceed 
from brown costal-marginal spots. The distal margin and a costal basal spot are likewise dark brown. Natal. 
C. meridionals Wallgr. (8f). Forewing uni-coloured chestnut-brown; the distally convex antemedian 
line, the slightly curved postmedian line, and an undulate antemarginal nebulous stripe are darker. Hindwing 
whitish. Transvaal. 
