1896.] MOTHS FROM ADEN AND SOMALILAND, 261 
TARACHE NOLABILIS, WIk. xi. 669, 
Lahej, Arabia. A pale, slightly-marked specimen ; fore wing 
with the costal marks reduced to specks; hind wing with slight 
trace of fuscous at apex only. 
TARACHE VARIA, WIE. xxxiii. 772. 
Aden. 
TARACHE FLAVONIGRA, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1884, p. 522, pl. 47. £.15, 
Aden. 
ACONTIA GRELLSII, Feisth. Ann, Soc. Ent. Fr. vi. p, 300, pl, 12. 
Zanthodes innocens, Wik. xv. 1752. 
Aden ; Lahej, Arabia. 
AcONTIA INsIGNIs, Butl. P. Z.S, 1884, p. 500. 
Aden. 
Larva with three pairs of prolegs; dull orange with interrupted 
brownish bands between the somites, the four medial bands darker 
and more prominent; each somite with paired lateral spots; warty 
and clothed with short bristles. Food-plant Anarrhinum pedi- 
cellatum. 
XANTHOPTERA MESOZONA, n. sp. (Plate X. fig. 9.) 
9. Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous, the last suffused with 
fuscous. Fore wing ochreous, a black spot at base of costa and 
two specks beyond it; a broad medial black band; a black disco- 
cellular speck; a faint postmedial line arising from a black spot 
on costa and excurved below costa; a slightly sinuous silvery 
submarginal line with black spot inside it on costa; a marginal 
black line widening at apex. Hind wing fuscous. 
Hab. Aden (Yerbury). Exp. 20 mm. 
MaARIMATHA SUBFLAVALIS, WIk. xxxiv. 1205. 
Aden. 
Meracurostis quinaria, Moore, P. Z.S. 1881, p. 371. 
Shaik Othman, Arabia. 
METACHROSTIS ATRIBASALIS, n. sp. (Plate X. fig. 11.) 
¢. Head and thorax black ; abdomen fuscous, ochreous towards 
base. Fore wing bright ochreous; the basal area black with erect 
outer edge; a medial triangular black patch on costa extending 
almost to lower angle of cell; outer area black with a grey 
tinge, its inner edge indented at veins 6 and 3. Hind wing pale 
fuscous. 
Hab. Aden (Nurse). Exp. 12 mm. 
This species in facies resembles Acontia insiynis and Xantho- 
ptera mesozona, haying the same black and yellow coloration, ~ 
