. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. CERYNEA. 213 below lower angle of cell; postmedial line blackish, minutely dentate, angled slightly inwards at discal fold and below vein 3, some brownish suffusion beyond it and some pale points on costa with minute whitish streaks between them ; subterminal line pale, excurved at middle and angled inwards at discal and submedian folds ; a series of blackish points just before termen ; a fine waved dark terminal line and tine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing yellowish suffused with rufous and irrorated with blackish, th
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. CERYNEA. 213 below lower angle of cell; postmedial line blackish, minutely dentate, angled slightly inwards at discal fold and below vein 3, some brownish suffusion beyond it and some pale points on costa with minute whitish streaks between them ; subterminal line pale, excurved at middle and angled inwards at discal and submedian folds ; a series of blackish points just before termen ; a fine waved dark terminal line and tine pale line at base of cilia. Hind wing yellowish suffused with rufous and irrorated with blackish, the terminal area tinged with brown ; two black diseoidal points; postmedial line blackish, minutely waved ; a series of blackish. Fig. 53.— Ceri/nea thcrtnc&ialis, ^. |. points just before termen; a fine waved dark terminal line and pale line at base of cilia ; the underside whitish, irrorated with brown especially on terminal area, a black diseoidal striga, two minutely waved postmedial lines and a series of points before termen. Hah. Be. E. Africa, Kikuyu (Craivshay), 1 c?; Mashonaland, Salisbury {Marshall), 1 § ; Gazaland, Chirinda Forest {Marshall), 1 2 ; Transvaal, White R. {Cooke), 1 5 ; Natal, Malvern {Marshall), 1 $, Durban {Gueinzius, Lelc/h), 1 c^, 1 $ tj^pe. i'liy. 20-24 millim. b. Male without tuft of hair between antennas recurved over vertex of head. «'. Ei)th wings of male with some rough hair on basal inner area. 5327. Cerynea trichobasis, n. sp. Head, thorax, and abdomen pale ochreous tinged with rufous ; fore tibiae fuscous. Fore wing pale ochreous tinged with rufous in parts, especially on basal and terminal areas, the inner area slightly irrorated with black ; the male with tuft of brownish hair at base of inner margin ; an indistinct sinuous dark antemedial line with black point at costa and black point just beyond it in cell; two black diseoidal points with a black point just before them in diacal fold ; a rufous medial line, bent outwards below c
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