MOTHS FROM SOMALILAXU. 10^? 



former with black spot at side ; abdomen brownish ochreous 

 with dorsal and sublateral series of black spots, the ventral 

 surface whitish tinged with brown. Fore wing pale reddish 

 brown ; a subbasal black point on costa ringed with white ; 

 obliquely placed antemedial black spots on and below costa and 

 in cell and spots nearer the base below median nervure and 

 above vein 1, all ringed with white; two diffused waved white 

 medial lines, rather oblique to below the cell, then incurved ; 

 obliquely placed postmedial black spots ringed with white below 

 veins 8 and 7, then a series of diffused white spots with minute 

 black points on the spots below veins 5 and 4 ; a subterrainal 

 series of diffused white spots in the interspaces. Hind wing 

 pale grey-brown. Underside of both wings uniform pale grey- 

 brown. 



1908: Nov. 13,-1 $ (type). Exp, 36 millim. 



2098. Secusio strigata Wlk. 



Mandera. — 1908 : Sept. 25,-1 $ . 



GanLibbah.— 1908: June 25,-1 6 ; Nov. 6,-1 $. 1909: 

 Nov. 4,— 2 5. 



Fam. Agaristid^. 



84. RoTHiA AiSHA Kirby. 

 1909: Apr. 8,-1 cf . 



122. uSCgocera BREVivrrrA Hmpsn. 



1909: May 6,-1 $; May 10,-9 $. 1 $ specimen without 

 data. 



162. TUERTA TRIMENI Feld. 



1909: Apr. 5,-1 S\ Apr. 14,-1 6,1%; Apr. 20 or 21.— 



1 2. 



Fam. N o c T u I D ^. 

 Subfam. Agrotin^e. 

 47 a. Chloridea albivbnata, sp. n. (PI. I. fig. 3, $ .) 



2 . Head and thorax rufous mixed with ochreous ; antennae 

 brownish, white towards base ; palpi, pectus, legs, and abdomen 

 ochreous irrorated with brown, the dorsum of abdomen thickly 

 irrorated. Fore wing ochreous tinged with rufous and slightly 

 im'orated with blackish, a stronger rufous shade along miedian 

 nervure expanding towards the postmedial line; a diffused blackish 

 streak below base of cell ; a faint diffused oblique blackish ante- 

 medial line from costa to median nervure ; reniform a diffused 

 blackish spot ; the veins beyond the cell slightly streaked with 

 white to tlie postmedial line, which is whitish slightly defined 

 on each side by blackish, bent outwards below costa, then 

 minutely dentate, excurved to vein 5, then oblique, a fuscous 



