258 LORD WALSINGHAM AND MR. G. F. HAMPSON ON [Feb. 18, 
and Tineide is by Lord Walsingham, the remainder by myself, in 
which part only such synonymy is given as is necessary to 
elucidate Mr. Butler’s previous paper. The types of the new 
species have been presented to the collections of the British 
Museum and Lord Walsingham by Col. Yerbury and Capt. Nurse. 
—G. F. H. 
ARCTIIDA. 
LitHosiinz. 
Sxecusio srricata, WIk. ii. 559. 
Zaila, Somaliland. 
DEIOPIA PULCHELLA, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 2, 884. 
Aden ; Zaila, Somaliland. 
NYCTEOLIN#. 
EaRIAs INSULANA, Boisd. Faun. Madag. p. 121, pl. 16. f. 9. 
Aden ; Lahej; Zaila, Somaliland. 
ARCTIINA. 
SPILOSOMA ARABICUM, n. sp. (Plate X. fig. 25.) 
Dull greyish white; legs crimson, grey, and black ; palpi black 
above ; antenne black, the basal joint crimson; a crimson line 
behind the head and streak on shoulders; patagia with paired 
black spots; abdomen crimson, with dorsal black spots; anal tuft 
in female grey. Fore wing with more or less black on base of 
costa ; an antemedial series of five black spots bent inwards below 
median nervure ; a black discocellular patch divided into a cluster 
of spots by the veins; a curved postmedial series of spots, com- 
mencing with an elongate spot below costa, and with black specks 
and spots beyond it below costa and near veins 5 and 2. Hind 
wing with discocellular spot, and sometimes with two or three 
submarginal spots. 
Hab. Aden (Yerbury). Exp. $ 32, 2 38 mm. 
NoLinz. 
Genus ARCHINOLA, nov. 
Palpi porrect, extending about the length of head and thickly 
scaled, the 3rd joint concealed; maxillary palpi large and tri- 
angularly dilated with scales; proboscis small; antenne of male 
minutely ciliated, the basal joints dilated with scales; legs and 
tibial spurs moderate. Fore wing with a few scattered raised 
scales; vein 3 from before angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle; 6 from 
upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10, 11 free. Hind wing with vein 3 
from before angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle; 6, 7 on a long stalk ; 
8,anastomosing with the cell to near end. 
