1896.] - MOTHS rEOm ADEN AND BOMAIiILAND. 2^9 



The large maxillai-y palpi are a. most remarkable feature in this 

 genus, which is otherwise near Pisara, Wlk., and tends to prove 

 the derivation of the Nolince group of the Arctiida from the 

 Tineidw, in close relationship with the ancestor of the ScojiariitKB, 

 Schoenobiince, a,ni lower PyralidcE. 



Abohinola PTBiLiDiA, n. sp. (Plate X. fig. 23.) 

 cJ . Brownish grey. Fore wing slightly irrorated with fuscous ; 

 an antemedial erect fuscous , line ; a postmedial line curved from 

 costa to vein 3, then incurved to below end of cell. Hind wing 

 pale fuscous. 



Hab. Aden (Murse). Exjy. li mm. 



AGAEISTIDjE. ... 



EusEMiA THRUPPi, Butl. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 775. , . . . -. 



S. of Berbera, Somaliland. , 



nootuidvb. !:. . 



Teifin^e. 

 GiiOTTTJLA OEIHNTAIJS, ttmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 168. 

 Aden. 



Larva. Head reddish; somites French grey, the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 

 terminal two light red ; each somite with a black ring, the medial 

 ones broadest. Food-plant Pancratium tortuosum. 



Heliothis nubigeba, H.-S. Eur. Schmett. ii. p. 366. 

 Helioilds peltigera, Butl. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 776 (nee SchifEerm.). 

 Aden; Somaliland. 



ILbliothis aemigeea, Hiibn. Samml. eur. Schmett., Noct^ ii. 

 pl.79. . •. . . ' 



Aden. , , 



Heliothis PiOTiFASciA, n. sp. (Plate X. fig. 8.) 

 5 . Grey ; thorax variegated with ochreous, the patagia with 

 black and white streak ; tarsi ringed with black ; abdomen pale 

 grey. Fore wing with ochreous .spot at base; some ochreous 

 specks on costa ; an ochreous fascia below median nervure from 

 base to outer margin irrorated- with black, and with three blackish 

 marks on it ; a similar fascia from middle of cell to outer, margin, 

 with the elongate ochreous orbicular and rounded reniform stigmata 

 on it ; a submarginal series of black and ochreous lunules ; a marginal 

 series of black spots; cilia ochreous at. base, pale at tips, with 

 series of fuscous spots. Hind wing pure white. 

 Hab. Zaila, Somaliland {Nurse)^ Exp. 38 mm. 



EuPLBXiA opposiTA, Wlk. xxxil. 667. • : : ' - - - • ' "■ 



Aden. 



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