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The genus Ceryx Wallengren is a large genus, with representatives in south and west Africa, through Asia, to Australia. Hampson (1892) reported C. hyalina Moore, C. diptera Fabricius (as Syntomoides incipiens Walker and Syntomoides brachypecten Hampson) and C. cherra Moore (under Syntomis Ochsenheimer) from the Indian subregion. None of the above mentioned species were reported from the western Himalaya. The following is a description of a new species recorded in the western Himalaya, which bears the characteristic hindwing venation lacking veins 3, 5 and 6 (Fig. 1) that distinguishes the monobasic Syntomoides Hampson, Ceryx and Auriculoceryx Holloway from other genera of the sub-family Syntominae. Syntomoides is monobasic, differing from Ceryx in certain features of the male genitalia. Males of the genus Auriculoceryx have filiform antennae. From the illustration of the hindwing venation of S. imaon in Hampson (1892) and Holloway (1988), the present species differs in having vein 4 straight rather than arched. The type material of this and other taxa described by the author (Neptis miah varshneyi; Neptis clinia praedicta; Comostola hauensteini; Dysaethria himalayica, etc.) are in the author’s personal collection at the Butterfly Research Centre, The Retreat, Jones Estate, Bhimtal, Uttarakhand. This collection is the only Indian insect collection on open public display. Some types, eg. of Neptis miah varshneyi (paratype) and Neptis clinia praedicta (holotype) have been deposited in the Indian National Forest Insect Collection at the Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun, Uttarakhand. Other type material may be deposited in that depository in future, pending a change in chemical preservatives used in that institution.

A new species of Ceryx Wallengren (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae: Syntominae) from the Kumaon Himalaya, India