> dF A Se Vi eee 3 DE he ets ee IA 
ata #4: 
Si distingue dalle specie affini per la presenza all’ala ante- 
riore di una venula fra il radio e il primo settore dello stesso. 
Carposina chersodes Meyerick n. sp. 
14-15 mm. Head ochreous-white speckled with grey. Palpi 2 '/,, 
whitish, irrorated with dark grey except tip. Thorax ochreous-whitish 
irregularly irrorated with dark fuscous. Abdomen grey-whitish. Fore- 
wings elongate, rather narrow, costa anteriorly gently, posteriorly 
slightly arched, apex obtuse, termen straight, rather strongly oblique ; 
pale brownish-ochreous irregularly irrorated with grey and _ blackish, 
sometimes mixed with whitish in disc; basal patch blackish on costa 
and dorsum, edge raised, pale-margined, six blackisd spots on costa 
between this and apex, fourth longest, transverse ; three blackish tufts 
in a straight series between first of these and dorsum, a tuft beneath 
middle of disc, and two on end of cell, posterior portion of cell be- 
tween these occupited by a grey patch irrorated with blackish; a 
slightly curved shade irrorated with blackish from beneath fifth costal 
spot to tornus: cilia light grey, basal thirh somewhaf spinkled with 
blackish. Hindwings light bluish-grey ; cilia whitish ochreouse-grey. 
Habitat. — Eritrea: Nefasit. 
