1896.] MOTHS TEOM ADBW AND BOMALILAND. 261 



Tabachb NOTABiLis, "Wlk. 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. 



Tabaohb taeia, Wlk. xxxiii. 772. 



Aden. 



Taeaohb flavonigra, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1884, p. 522, pi. 47. f. 15. 



Aden. 



AcoNTiA GBiiELLSii, Feisth. Ann, Soc. Bnt. Fr. ri. p» 300, pi, 12. 

 f. 3. . • 



Zanilmdes innnce^is, Wlk. xv. 1752. 

 Aden ; Lahej, Arabia. 



AooNTiA iNsiGNis, Butl. P. Z. S. 1884, p. 500. 



Aden. 



Tjarva 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 joedi' 

 cellatum. 



Xanthosteea mbsozona, n. sp. (Plate X. fig. 9.) 



2 • Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous, the last sufEueed 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. 



Hai. Aden {Yerbury). Exp, 20 mm. 



Maeimatha sttbflatalis, Wlk. xxxiv. 1205. 



Aden. 



Mbxacheostis quinaeia, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 371. 



Shaik Othman, Arabia. 



Metaoheostis atribasalis, n. sp. (Plate X. fig. 11.) 



cJ . 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 facias resembles Acontia insignis and XantTio- 

 ptera mesozona, having the same black and yellow coloration. 



