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ing into a spot at apex, then dentate inwards to vein 5 and outwards on veins 
5 and 4; a fine lunulate terminal line ; hind-wing white ; the veins and 
termen often tinged with fuscous. 
9. Fore-wing sometimes suffused with fuscous. 
Exp. 6, 32-38; 9, 40 mm. 
Halitat. Sokotra (Adho Dimellus, 3500 ft., 1d, 189; Jena-agahan, 1140 
ft.. 1 9; Hadibu Plain, 5 2). 
Extremely like A. corticea, Schiff., but with very much shorter branches 
to the antenne. 
Acontiane. 
(2) Tarache melzna. 
¢@. Head and abdomen fuscous ; thorax black ; fore-wing glossy black- 
brown ; a white antemedial band, with nearly straight almost erect edges 
bounded by black lines, the band sometimes narrower, or not extending 
below vein 1, or in one specimen reduced to a grey spot on costa ; a triangular 
postmedial white spot on costa, with the minutely dentate postmedial black 
line arising from it strongly incurved below vein 3; a terminal series of 
white points usually present and sometimes some slight subterminal marks 
towards tornus. Hind-wing dark fuscous. Zzp. 20 mm. 
Habitat. Sokotra (Hadibu Plain, 9 @ ). 
(3) Metachrostis terminipuncta. 
6. Head and thorax red brown ; abdomen fuscous ; fore-wing with the 
basal half pale red-brown ; two sub-basal black points on costa with short 
obscure lines from them ; two antemedial waved red-brown lines arising from 
black points on costa ; a waved medial line with the area beyond it deep red- 
brown with some pale patches ; an oblique discoidal lunule with some black on 
its inner edge ; a blackish mark in submedian fold before the double minutely 
dentate postmedial line, which is bent outwards between veins 6 and 3 ; a sinu- 
ous subterminal line, with a prominent black spot beyond it on termen above 
vein 5; some slight terminal black Iunules. Hind-wing dark fuscous, the 
underside brown irrorated with fuscous, with dark discoidal point and curved 
postmedial line. _ Lzp. 28 mm. 
Halitat. Sokotra (Adho Dimellus, 3500 ft., 1 3). 
Noctuine. 
(4) Cerocala sokotrensis. 
Head and thorax clothed with grey, fuscous, and brown scales; palpi 
white except at tips; the vertex of head and front of tegule brownish white ; 
abdomen brownish white, irrorated with fuscous ; pectus and ventral surface 
white. Fore-wing with the base, costal area, and termen grey, irrorated 
with fuscous and brown, the rest of wing fuscous and brown with leaden 
suffusion in parts; a fine black line from subcostal nervure before middle 
curved to above middle of inner margin, defined on outer side by grey and 
followed by a broad rufous band; the orbicular small, black-edged with 
brownish centre, and elliptical; the reniform grey, black-edged, somewhat 
quadrate ; the postmedial black line oblique from below costa to vein 2, 
recurved to the inner edge of reniform, then excurved and bounding the 
rufous band, a large bar-shaped brown-irrorated white patch on its inner side 
beyond the cell ; a sub-terminal brown line defined by whitish on inner side, 
strongly angled inwards in discal fold and slightly in submedian fold, with 
two black marks on its inner side below the upper angle, and slight marks 
