1884.] LEPIDOPTERA FROM ADEN. 497 



EuRHIPID/E. 



58. EUTELIA DISCISTRIGA. 



Eutelia discitriga (sic), Walker, Lep. Het. Suppl. iii. p. 823 

 (1865). 



Aden {Yerbury and Swinhoe). 



Peusiid^;. 



59. Plxjsia limbirena. 



Plusia limbirena, Guenee, Noct. ii. p. 350, n. 1179. 

 Aden {Swinhoe). 

 Occurs also in Abyssinia. 



Gonopterid^e. 



60. cosmophila xanthindyma. 



Cosmophila xanthindyma, Boisduval, Faune Ent. Madag. p. 94, 

 pi. 13. fig. 7. 



Covnophila indica, Guenee, Noct. ii. p. 396, n. 1256. 



Cosmophila auragoides, Guenee, /. c. p. 397, n. 1258. 



Cirrcedia edentata and variolosa, Walker, Lep. Het. xi. p. 750 

 (1857). 



S 2 , Aden. 



We have this species from Madagascar, Natal, West Africa, 

 Ceylon, and various parts of India and Australia. It is probably 

 identical with Walker's Cirrcedia edentata from Tasmania, but, in 

 my opinion, does not quite agree with Cosmophila erosa of the New 

 World, a constant character for separating which appears to obtain 

 in the more deeply sinuous, more angular, and more narrowly 

 fringed outer border of the primaries; it is also as a rule of a more 

 lively colour, with the external half of the primaries of the male by 

 no means so dark. 



61. Gonitis stjbulifera. 



Gonitis subidifera, Gucne'e, Noct. ii. p. 404, n. 1272 (1852). 



Aden {Yerbury and Swinhoe). 



This species was originally described from an Abyssinian example. 



62. Gonitis propino.ua, sp. n. 



Closely allied to G. fractifera of St. Domingo, some varieties (the 

 greyer ones) of which it closely resembles in size, colour, and, pattern, 

 with the following exceptions : — It is usually greyer and darker; the 

 palpi are more slender, though not quite so long ; the reniform spot 

 on the primaries is more oblique, the block dots within it being 

 blurred ; the outer line of the central belt is much more irregular 

 and bends more strongly outwards towards the inner margin ; the 

 inner margin of the primaries is shorter, thus equalizing the divisions 

 from the angle of the outer margin ; the sinus above the angle is 

 also deeper. Expanse of wings 38 millim. 



Aden {Yerbury and Swinhoe). 



We have long had a worn example of this species from Abyssinia 



