.^SO Mr. G. T. Betliuue-Baker on LXTII, — Descriptions of new African lleterocera. By G. T. Bethune-Baker, F.L.S., F.Z.S. Syntomidae. Ceryx flava, sp. n. ^ . Antennre dark brown. Head, tliovax, and abdomen uniform chrome-yellow. Legs dark brown. Primaries brown where not hyaline ; all the cell and nearly all below the cell to vein 1 a hyaline, angle of veins 7 and 8 hyaline, internervular area between 6 and 7 hyaline for two-thirds, area between 5 and 6 nearly filled in with brown but not quite, a hyaline ovate spot on each side of vein 4, angle of vein 2 hyaline. Secondaries with basal area yellow, outer half greyish brown, no hyaline spots at all. Expanse 29 mm. Hab. N'Dalla Tando, N. Angola, 2700 feet ; November {Ansorge). Type in my collection. Syntomis tripunctata, sp. n. Antennse with white tips. Head, thorax, and abdomen uniform greenish black. Primaries greenish black, with a small hyaline spot in the cell, one above vein 6, and one below it, below vein 4. Secondaries, a minute dot beyond the cell. Expanse 23 mm. Hah, N'Dallo Tando, N.Angola, 2700 feet; December [Ansorge). Type in my collection. Syntomis diss'wiilis, sp. n. Antennae all black. Head, thorax, and abdomen blue-black, the latter with the two middle segments dull red, with a similar coloured fine lateral line from them to the thorax. Both wings bluish black. Primaries with a Iiyaline quad-rate spot below the cell, a large spot filling the apical half of the cell, below which is a large subquadrate spot, a spot above vein 6, two ovate spots, one on each side of vein 4. Secondaries : a large basal spot extending into the cell, another beyond the cell divided by vein 3. Fringes to both wings brown. Expanse 33 mm. Hab. Laikipia, East Equatorial Africa ; June [Jackson). Type in my collection. Allied to 8. consimiliSy Hmpsn. I
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