. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. large patches in submedian interspace and above vein 2 extending nearly to termen. Hah. Philipphtes, Luzon, Benguet, Prov. Irisan {McGregor), 1 J type. Exp. 30 millim. 13 a. Ceryx bifasciata. Pseudonaclia bifasciata, Auriv. Sjostedt'a Kilima'njaro-Meru Exp. 9, p. 24, pi. 1. f. 10 (1910). Antennae of male with short branches, of female ciliated. d1. Head orange with dark brown bars on frons and between antenna? which are dark brown, orange towards base and white at tips ; thorax dark brown, the teguke orange at tips, the pat
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. large patches in submedian interspace and above vein 2 extending nearly to termen. Hah. Philipphtes, Luzon, Benguet, Prov. Irisan {McGregor), 1 J type. Exp. 30 millim. 13 a. Ceryx bifasciata. Pseudonaclia bifasciata, Auriv. Sjostedt'a Kilima'njaro-Meru Exp. 9, p. 24, pi. 1. f. 10 (1910). Antennae of male with short branches, of female ciliated. d1. Head orange with dark brown bars on frons and between antenna? which are dark brown, orange towards base and white at tips ; thorax dark brown, the teguke orange at tips, the patagia with short orange streaks, the metathorax with lateral orange streaks ; tibiae and tarsi orange, brown at extremities; abdomen brown with orange bands on each segment, the anal tuft orange and brown. Fore wing dark brown ; an oblique orange antemedial. Fig-. 2.âCeryx bifasciata, rf. \. band from below costa to inner margin towards which it narrows ; a quadrate orange spot in the cell connected with an oblique triangular orange patch from below middle of cell to tornus ; an oblique orange band from just below costa beyond middle to near termen at vein 3, its inner edge slightly incurved at veins 5 and 3. Hind wing dark brown with orange basal patch and discoidal striga connected with a spot from lower angle of cell to tornus. 5 . Fore wing with the triangular patch below the cell connected Avith the antemedial band by a streak in submedian fold, the post- medial band broader and bent outwards to termen above vein 3. Hab. Br. E. Africa, Mt. Kenia, 5,000 ft. (Weave), 1 tf , 4 ? ; Germ. E. Africa, Kilimanjaro. Exp. 22 millim. 13 b. Ceryx nacliodes, n. sp. (Plate I. fig. 4.) 6 â Head and thorax orange mixed with some dark brown ; antennas dark brown beyond middle and white at tips; tibia? and tarsi brown at extremities; abdomen orange with narrow brown segmental bands. Fore wing dark-brown ; a broad oblique orange antemedial band from just below costa to inner margin, con
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