4 BULLETIN OF THE LIVERPOOL MUSEUMS. 
Hyponomeutide. 
Batrachedra, Stn. 
(6) Batrachedra atomosella. 
Antenne with the basal joint long, slightly thickened with appressed 
scales above; white, with minute blackish dots above.  Pulpi recurved, 
terminal and median joints of about equal length, the latter clothed with a ~ 
rather long tuft of projecting scales ; white, speckled with black ; the ter- 
minal joint smooth, with three blackish annulations, the apex blackish. 
Head white, profusely speckled with black at the ends of the broad flattened 
scales. Thorax white, speckled with black, assuming the form of minute 
strigze on the tegule. /ore-wings white, speckled with black, assuming the 
form of minute strigze in a short series at the base of the costa ; a second 
series from the base along the cell to about one-sixth, thence the remainder 
of the wing, nearly to the apex, is more or less profusely speckled with greyish 
fuscous having a tendency to run in transverse strigule ; a slight shade on 
the middle of the costa is succeeded by a transverse shade-band at three- 
fourths, beyond which the acute apex of the wing is narrowly outlined with 
brownish ochreous bearing a reduplicated minute brownish ochreous oblique 
streaklet at the commencement of the costal cilia and another beyond it on 
the dorsum, a slender blackish line points to the apex in the intermediate 
space ; cilia at the apex white, freely speckled with minute black scale-points, 
the cilia about the tornus greyish cinereous. Ezp. al. 10 mm. Hind-wings 
and cilia greyish cinereous ; the wings rather shining. Abdomen with an 
ochreous tinge on the basal half, whitish posteriorly ; with an expansible 
hair-pencil posteriorly. Legs smooth, whitish, speckled with black externally. 
Type 3 (13376) Mus. W1sm. 
Habitat. Sokotra: Hadibu Plain (21. II. 99). 
Scythris, Ho. 
(7) Scythris denticolor. 
Antenne dirty brownish white. Palpi whitish, with a slight brownish 
tint externally. Head and Thorax brownish white. Fore-wings whitish, with 
a faint brownish tinge except about the apex ; a small fuscous spot lies in the 
fold a little before the middle of the wing and another at the end of the cell ; 
cilia white at the apex, suffused with brownish ochreous towards the tornus. 
Exp. al. 16 mm. Hind-wings whitish grey, with some faint brown scaling 
towards the apex ; cilia light brownish ochreous. Abdomen whitish, shining 
silvery white beneath. Legs whitish. 
Type 2 (13377) Mus. W1sm. 
Halitat. Sokotra: Hadibu Plain (11-12. XII. 98). 
(8) Scythris neurogramma. 
Antenne greyish brown. Palpi smooth, recurved ; dirty whitish, shaded 
with greyish brown externally. Head and Thorax pale greyish brown, mixed 
with dirty whitish. Fore-wings dirty whitish, with greyish brown shading, 
usually broken into length-streaks corresponding to the spaces between the 
veins, separated by lines of the white ground-colour of variable width ; a 
narrow greyish brown line along the upper edge of the cell is recurved 
around the outer end of the cell, while above and beyond it is a series of 
very short greyish brown oblique streaks not reaching the costa, and more 
distinctly separated in the direction of the costa than towards the apex and 

