1896.] ow MOTHS fbom: aben and bomaliland. 257 



Beleiwis lordaca feeds at Huswah on Oaparis galeata, that is, 

 if this plant be consjiecific with the Aden plant, bearing the same 

 name (to the uninitiated the plants look allied, but decidedly 

 distinct from each other). I suspect that T. vi also feeds on this 

 plant, though I have never yet found a larva in spite of careful 

 search. 



Catopsilia larvse feed on Oassia, sp., but I have been unable to 

 correctly obtain the specific name of this plant ; it is, however, 

 allied to adenensis, and may be that species. 



Zesius livia. — Specimens bred from the pods of Acacia edgeworthii 

 collected in Gold Mohur Valley. At Haithalhim a number of 

 pupse were found under a large stone ; from these, too, a species 

 of Zesius emerged. 



Limnas. — The larvse feed on Galotropis gigantea. 



Seasonal dimorphism does not seem to occur to any extent in 

 the neighbourhood ; though it may possibly do so in the case of 

 Teracolus Calais and dynamene. 



The year 1883 was very wet, heavy rain having fallen in Ma_v, 

 consequently in July a large number of Butterflies appeared — 

 among others, a very brightly-coloured form of T. Calais (all, I be- 

 lieve, females however) : this may point to T. Calais being the rainy- 

 season form and T, dynamene the dry. I never met with this 

 unusually brightly-coloured form in after years. — J. W. Ybebuex. 



2. On Moths collected at Aden and in Soraaliland. By 

 Lord Walsingham, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., and G. F. 

 Hampson, B.A., &c. 



[ReceJTed January 29, 1896.] 

 (Plate X.) 



The following paper contains a record of the collections made 

 at Aden and its neighbourhood in the year 1895 by Col. J. W. 

 Yerbury and Capt. C. Q-. Nurse, and of a small Somaliland 

 collection made at Zaila by Capt. Nurse. It also includes the 

 Heterocera recorded from Aden in a paper by Mr. A. G. Butler 

 in the Society's ' Proceedings ' for 1884 (collected by Cols. Yerbury 

 and Swinhoe), and the few Moths recorded from Somaliland by 

 Mr. Butler in his paper oa the Lepidoptera of Somaliland in the 

 Society's ' Proceedings ' for 1885, nearly all these species, how- 

 ever, being again represented in the collections now worked out. 



The Aden forms show, as might be expected, a mingling of 

 the European, N. African, and Western Indian species, the latter 

 decidedly predominating. The number of species is very large for 

 such a barren locality, especially auiong the Pyralidce, the number 

 of Phycitinm being a marked feature of the fauna, -whilst the 

 most interesting new form is the archaic genus of the Nola 

 group. The portion of the paper on the Pterophoridce, Toi-tricidai, 



Pkoo. Zool. Soo.— 1896, No. XVH. 17 



