,1896.] MOTHS FBOM ABHIT AND SOMALILAITD. 267 



Obsonoba clblia, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. p. 172, pi. 288. S. B, C. 

 Shaik Othman, Arabia. 



LAKBN'rilNiE. 



Genus Acidaliastis, nov. 



Palpi minute and hardly reaching beyond the frons ; proboscis 

 absent ; antennse of male bipectiuated ; hind tibias with the medial 

 spurs absent. Pore wing ^^^th vein 2 from towards end of cell ; 

 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from above middle of discocellulars ; 7, 8, 9, 10 

 stalked, 7 being given off beyond 10, and 9 near the apex; 11 

 becoming coincident with 12. Hind wing with vein 2 from near 

 angle of cell ; 3, 4 from angle ; 5 from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 

 7 on a long stalk ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to near end of it. 



Acidaliastis micba, n. sp. (Plate X. fig. 20.) 

 Chalky white. Pore wing with oblique brown line from upper 

 angle of cell to inner margin ; a prominent black discocellular 

 spot ; an oblique slightly curved brown postmedial line. Hind 

 wing with postmedial black speck on inner margin ; both wings 

 with some marginal black speclfs. 

 Hab. Aden (Mirse). Exp. 10 mm. 



AciDAIinNJE. 



Ceaspbdia actuaeia, Wlk. xxii. 752. 



Aden ; Lahej and Shaik Othman, Arabia. 



Ceaspbdia jaota, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1884, p. 626, pi. 48, f. 12. 



Aden. 



Aoidalia testaoea, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 863, pi. 57. f. 15. 



Aden. 



Ephtba EUFisTEiHATA, H. sp. (Plate X. fig. 3.) . . 



Pale brownish ochreous ; antennae with the shaft whitish ; wings 

 thickly mai'ked with minute brown striae and irrorated with a few 

 dark scales ; a dark cell-speck and traces of postmedial and sub- 

 marginal lines. Underside thickly marked with pink striae and 

 with incomplete pink submarginal line. 



Hah. Aden; Shaik Othman, Arabia (iVwrse). Exp. 22 mm. 



Emmiltis nigebsobns, n. sp. (Plate X. fig. 2.) 

 {J . Dark brown, irrorated with grey, white, and ochreous. Fore 

 wing with sinuous black anteniedial line ; a blade discocellular spot 

 on an obscure line which is bent inwards below cell ; a postmedial 

 line slightly bent outwards between veins 6 and 3, the area between 

 it and the medial line suffused with brown ; a sinuous white sub- 

 marginal line with a more prominent and whiter sinus at middle 

 and dark suffusion on its inner edge. Hind wing browner, with 



