1896.] MOTHS FBOM ADBN AIJD SOMALILAND. 277 



SBSIIDy-E. 



Genus Cbinipus, nov. 



Palpi upturned aud reaching vertex of head, the 2nd joint 

 moderately fringed in front, the 3rd short ; proboscis present ; 

 nntennsB of male with minute fascicles of cilia ; mid and hind 

 tibiae with medial and terminal tufts of hair ; hind tarsi with the 

 1st joint tufted. Fore wing with veins 2 and 3 closely approxi- 

 mated from angle of cell ; 4, 5, 6 at intervals ; 7, 8 stalked. Hind 

 wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of coll or shortly stallced ; 5 absent; 

 6 from below upper angle. 



Allied to AschistojMcps and OlufojMebta, Hmpsn. 



Cbiniptts leucozoniptjs, n. sp. (Plate X. fig. 21.) 

 Head, thorax, and abdomen black ; palpi in front, frons, and a 

 line behind the eyes white; tibiae, tarsi, and 4th segment of abdo- 

 men banded vtdth white ; some grey scales on 1st and last abdominal 

 segments. Wings hyaline, the veins black ; fore wing with black 

 margins and discocellular band ; both wings with the cilia brown. 

 Hab. Aden (Yerhury, Nurse). Exp. 14 mm. 



Pteeophorid^. 

 Teichoptilus, Wlsm. 

 Teichoptilus oxtdacttlus, "Wkr. 



PteropJiorus o.vydactylus, Wkr. Cat. Lep. Ins. B. M. xxx. 944 

 (1864)'. 



Adptilia oxydactyla, Wlsm. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 885 (1880)'. 



Pterophorus oxydactylus, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 528-9, pi. 209. 

 16 (1887)'; Swinh. & Cotes, Cat. Moths Ind. p. 669. no. 4549 

 (1889)*. 



[l = Tric7ioptilus centetes, Meyr.Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1886, p. 16- 

 17'; 1887, p. 266°; Wlsm. P. Z. S. 1891, p. 494-5 (1892)'.] 



Iviago. 15 II.— 9 III. (Yerbury, Nurse), IX.,' [?XI.'J, XII." 



Hab. Ceylon '•'; India — Poona^ Bombay"; S.W. Arabia — Aden 

 (^Yerbury, Nurse); Lahej (Yerbury, Nurse) ; [?New Guinea — Port 

 Moresby "; ? Queensland «; ? West Indies— St. Vincent ']. 



toeteicid^. 

 Oletheeutin^. 

 Pammene, Hb. 

 Pammene phaeaonana, Kllr. 



Orapliolitha pharaonana, Kllr. Wien. ent. Monats. ii. p. 164-8, 

 pi. V. 1-5 (1858) \ 



Orapholitha, sp., Frfld. Ver. z.-b. Ges. Wien, ix. Abh. p. 321-3, 

 pl.vi.1, pi. vu. 2(1859)'. 



