1896.] MOTHS TBOM ADEN AND SOMALILAND. 269 



LoPHTOA NANA, Wlk. viii. 107. 



Aden. _ ■ _ 



Larva various shades of green or pinkish ; a prominent white 

 lateral stripe with a yellowish stripe above it, and some of the 

 ground-colour between the two ; some specimens with chocolate- 

 coloured dorsal snake-like markings. Food-plant Oldenlandia 

 schhnpferi. 



Cephonodes htlas, Linn. Mant. p. 539. 

 Zaila, Somaliiand. 



P T 11 A L I D jE. 



GaI/BRIIN^. 



AcHBCEA SEiSBiiLA, Fabr, Ent. Syst. p. 289. 

 Aden. 



CEAMBIN.E. 



Eeombnb oobllba, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 486, 



Aden. 



Ebomenb PATONIAI.IS, n. sp. (Plate X. flg. 28.) 



Head grey ; thorax white, finely mottled with black scales ; 

 abdomen pale, sufBused with fuscous. Fore wing white, finely and 

 thickly mottled with black scales ; traces of an erect antemedial 

 yellow line ; a yellow baud from lower angle of cell to inner margin, 

 with four black marks on it ; a yellow spot with some black scales 

 on it beyond the cell ; a postmedial whitish line excurved between 

 veins 6 and 4. Hind wing white, sufEused with fuscous towards 

 outer margin ; a fuscous marginal line and a dark line through 

 the cilia. 



Hah. Aden {Nurse). Exp. 22 mm. 



Platttes lOTERiOALis, Swiuh. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 876, pi. 57. f. 16. 

 Lahej, Arabia. 



Ceambus lhuoozonellus, n. sp. (Plate X. fig. 5.) 



5 . Head white ; thorax white and grey ; abdomen white. 

 Fore wing grey ; the costa white, broadening to the subapical line ; 

 a white fascia from base along median nervure dividing into three 

 branches towards outer margin, the lowest branch not reaching 

 the margin, a black marginal speck below each branch ; the inner 

 margin with diffused white on it ; a rufous postmedial line angled 

 outwards on vein 6 and inwards on vein 2, then bent inwards 

 to inner margin ; two ferruginous lines across apex, the inner 

 becoming a sinuous submarginal line. Hind wing white. 



Another specimen has the costa of fore wing grey ; the medial 

 fascia much more diffused and its branches ill-defined. 



Hob. Aden. Bxp. 22 mm. 



