502 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON LEPIDOPTERA FROM ADEN, [NoV. 4, 



SCOPARIID^. 



88. SCOPARIA VINCTALIS. 



Scapula vinctalis, Walker, Lep. Het. Suppl, iv. p. 1476 (1865). 



Aden. 



This has hitherto been known only as an Indo-Australian species. 



Macariid^. 



89. Tephrina sublimbata, sp. n. 



Upper surface pale sandy brownish, with the external third of 

 the wings greyish, bounded internally by a nearly straight indistinct 

 testaceous line ; fringe whitish, striped with grey ; remainder of the 

 wing-surface transversely speckled with fine brown linear markings ; 

 a subcostal brown dash before the middle on all the wings ; primaries 

 with a marginal series of black dots : head brownish ; collar bounded 

 at the back by a dark red-brown stripe ; external border of wings 

 below dark smoky grey -brown ; remainder of the wings much 

 clearer and whiter than above : body below slightly yellowish, 

 especially at the sides. Expanse of wings 29 millim. 



Aden. 



Though an ordinary-looking insect, there appears to be no de- 

 scribed species nearly allied to this Tephrina. 



Phycid^. 



90. MeLLA YERBURII, sp. n. 



Palpi short, compared with M. zinckenella ; size, form, and neura- 

 tion similar : primaries dark leaden-grey ; a narrow pure white sub- 

 costal stripe from base to costa near the apex ; costal area also 

 irrorated with white ; fringe whitish, traversed by two grey stripes, 

 the inner one broad and dark ; secondaries semitransparent pearl- 

 white ; the veins, a narrow diffused external border, and a stripe 

 near the base of the fringe brownish : head and collar brown, edged 

 with pure white, thorax dark leaden-grey, tegulse white-edged; 

 abdomen pure white, anal tuft tipped with ochreous : primaries and 

 costa of secondaries below silvery brownish white, remainder of 

 secondaries pearly ; fringes silky whitish ; body below pearl white ; 

 anus ochreous. Expanse of wings 26 miUira. 



Aden. 



TiNEIDiE. 



91. Tinea swinhoei, sp. u. 



Nearest to T. tapetzella, but differing in the external border to 

 the primaries and the less acute form of these wings. Primaries with 

 the basal two fifths reddish "wood-brown," mottled with grey striae, 

 and speckled with black near the costal and dorsal margins ; 

 external border similarly coloured, partly bounded internally by an 

 interrupted blackish streak and interrupted by four white sub- 

 marginal spots ; remainder of wing-surface white, transversely 

 mottled, and beyond the cell banded with asli-grey ; a black spot 



