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ochreous line along their base. Abdomen brownish grey (varying to brownish 
testaceous). Legs pale brownish, with rather speckled fuscous shading on 
their outer sides, 
Type 3 (13363); 9 (13364) Mus. WIsm. 
Habitat. Sokotra: Adho Dimellus (3500 ft., 2. Il. 99); Hadibu Plain 
(19-21. IT. 99). 
(4) Hypsolophus thoracella. 
Antenne cinereous, dusted with blackish scales. Palpi with the usual 
projecting triangular tuft on the second joint, pale cinereous along its upper 
edge, dark greyish fuscous, minutely speckled with chestnut-brown about 
its base, and becoming chestnut-brown to the apex along its lower half; 
terminal joint pale cinereous, sprinkled with blackish scales. Head dark 
greyish fuscous, face pale chestnut-brown, Zhoraachestnut-brown. Fore-wings 
dark greyish fuscous, with a broad chestnut-brown streak from the base along 
the costa to a little beyond one-third ; mottled along the extreme costa with 
fuscous, a small pale cinereous spot on the costa at its outer extremity, a larger 
pale cinereous spot occurring at the commencement of the costal cilia from 
which a faintly indicated pale band crosses to the tornus; from the dorsum 
close to the base arises an oblique streak of slightly raised scales reaching to 
the upper edge of the cell; at the end of the cell is a minute blackish spot, 
its inner and lower edge narrowly outlined with whitish scales ; cilia greyish 
fuscous, with numerous pale brownish cinereous dentate points along their 
basal third, these extending around the apex and termen. zp. al. 16 mm. 
Hind-wings trapezoidal ; somewhat iridescent, brownish grey, the costa and 
limbus tending more to brown, the central portion of the wing tending to 
grey with bluish iridescence ; cilia pale brownish grey. Abdomen and Legs 
greyish brown, the latter thickly sprinkled with fuscous externally ; the under- 
side of the abdomen whitish peppered laterally with fuscous scales. 
Type 2 (13362) Mus. Wlsm. 
Halitat. Sokotra : Homhil (1500 ft., 26. IT. 99). 
Gelechia, Ho. 
(5) Gelechia sarcochroma. 
Antenne pale cinereous, with fuscous bars across the upper side. Palpi 
with the median joint thickened with rough scales beneath ; fleshy white, 
with two fuscous annulations on the terminal joint, a fuscous band on the outer 
side of the median joint at the base and some spots also near its apex. Head 
fleshy whitish. Thorax whitish flesh-colour, with slight fuscous shading. 
Fore-wings whitish flesh-colour, with slight fuscous shading ; with four fuscous 
costal spots, the first at the base, the second at about one-sixth, the third at 
about the middle, the fourth at the commencement of the costal cilia ; a 
broad dorsal streak, arising at one-fifth from the base, terminates at the upper 
edge of the cell a little beyond the second costal spot, some of the flesh- 
coloured scales between this and the base are distinctly raised ; there are a 
few fuscous scales beyond the middle of the cell and one or two in the fold 
beneath them ; cilia dull greyish ochreous, faintly speckled with fuscous and 
tinted with flesh-colour about the apex. Ezp. al. 16mm. Hind-wings shining 
pale bluish grey ; cilia very long, pale brownish ochreous. Abdomen pale 
brownish ochreous. Legs somewhat hairy above ; whitish ochreous, with two 
fuscous spots externally at the base of the hind tibiae. 
Type 3 (13360) Mus. Wlsm. 
Habitat. Sokotra : Adho Dimellus (3500 ft., 2. II. 99). 
