MOTHS FROM SOMALILAND. 105 



3786. Cbtola pulchra B.-Baker. 



1909: Apr. 6,-1 ?; Apr. 9,-1 $; Apr. 14,-1 6. 



3792 a. Matopo heterochroa, sp. n, (PI. I. fig. 5, S ■) 



Antennae of male bipectinate with rather long branches to 

 apex, ol" female ciliated. 



(S . Head and tegulfe ochreous white, the latter with slight 

 brown lines at middle and tips ; thorax bluish white slightly 

 mixed with pale brown ; palpi with the 2nd joint, except at tip, 

 and the 3vd joint brown ; frons with lateral brown bars ; pectus, 

 legs, and abdomen creamy white, the fore tibise and the tarsi 

 banded with blackish. Foi^e wing bluish white tinged in parts 

 with brown, especially on costal and terminal areas, the veins of 

 terminal half with slight dark streaks ; a subbasal brown point 

 below costa ; antemedial line slight, dark brown, angled outwards 

 below costa and strongly in submedian fold and above inner 

 margin; claviform defined by dark brown, minute; reniform faint, 

 yellowish with slight brown centre; postmedial line slight, dark 

 brown, defined on outer side by yellowish except towards costa, 

 strongly bent outwards below costa, then waved, incurved below 

 vein 4, and with a slight brown shade before it towards inner 

 margin, some white points beyond it on costa, and slight black- 

 brown streaks above and below vein 6 and between veins 4 and 2 ; 

 cilia intersected by slight white streaks. Hind wing pure white, 

 the terminal area slightly tinged with brown. Underside white. 



5 . More strongly tinged with reddish brown ; fore wing with 

 round whitish orbicular stigma and some fiery red on outer edge 

 of reniform and on the yellowish beyond the postmedial line ; 

 hind wing sufii'used with reddish brown ; underside tinged with 

 red-brown^ 



1908 : 0-et. 13,-1 $ (type) ; Nov. 24,-1 6 (type). 1909 : 

 Mar. 12,-1 $; Apr. 14,-1 $; Apr. 20,-1 $; Apr. 22,-1 $; 

 Apr. 26,-1 ?; Sept, 30,-1 ?; Oct. 22,— 1 ?; Nov. 6— 1 §. 

 I^xp. 32-36 millim. 



3878, Laphygma exigua Hiibn. 



1909 : Jan. 15,-1 c? , 1 $ . 



Genus Odontoretha, nov. 



Type, 0, feaiheri. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi porrect, short, slender ; frons 

 with large, conical, truncate prominence with raised edges pro- 

 duced to two minute teeth below and two at each side ; eyes large, 

 round ; antennae of male almost simple ; thorax clothed almost 

 entirely with scales, the metathorax with depressed crest ; build 

 slender; tibiae slightly fringed with hair ; abdomen clothed with 

 rather rough hair, but without crests. Fore wing long and very 

 narrow ; the apex rectangular, the termen evenly curved and 

 not crenulate; veins 3, 4 stalke<i; 5 from just above angle; 



