MOTHS FROM SOMALILAXD. 107 



with pale rings ; abdomen oclireous wliite with difiused fuscous 

 dorsal bands. Fore wing ochreons ; a minute black subbasal spot 

 on costa and slight point below the cell ; a small black ante- 

 medial spot on costa, and traces of a sinuous line with slight 

 black marks on it below the cell and above inner mai'gin ; two 

 small black spots at middle of costa ; a black subterminal band, 

 broad at costa and narrowing to a point at inner margin, ex- 

 tending, except towards apex and tornus, to beyond the slight 

 pale subterminal line, which is slightly angled outwards at vein 7 

 and excurved at middle ; the termen oclireous with a. series of 

 minute black lunules; cilia whitish, tinged with brown at base. 

 Hind wing white, with a slight brown tei-minal line except 

 towards tornus ; cilia ochreous n.t base, white at tips, and with a 

 brown line through them towards apex. Undersi<le white, the 

 fore wing and costa of hind wing tinged with ochreous ; fore 

 wing with the terminal area suffused with fuscous except towards 

 tornus; the cilia ochreous at liase followed by a l)rown shade and 

 the tips white ; hind wing with some bi'own on apical part of 

 termen. 



1908: Oct. 20,-1 6 (type). J'Jxp. .30millim. 



Genus Oonstantiodes, nov. 



Type, C. pyralina. 



Proboscis absent; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching to 

 vertex of head, slenderly scaled, the Sixl moderate, thickl}' scaled ; 

 frons smooth, with lidge of hair above ; eyes large, round ; 

 antennse of male bipectinate with moderate bi'aiiches, the apex 

 ciliated ; thorax clotlied almost entii-ely with scales, the meta- 

 thorax with depressed crest ; tibise slightly fringed with hair ; 

 abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing nari'ow, the 

 apex rectangular, the termeu evenly curved, crenulate ; veins 

 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from Vipper angle ; 9 from 

 10 anastomosing with 8 to form a narrow^ areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent 

 from below middle of discocellulai-s ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base onl3% 



In key differs from Phtsilla in the fore wing being narrow 

 with the termen crenulate. 



4030 a. CONSTANTIODES PYRALINA, sp. n. (PI. I. fig. 35, J.) 



S 2 . Head and thoi-ax white mixed with some I'ed-brown ; 

 palpi with some dark brown towards extremity of 2ud joint ; abdo- 

 men creamy white, dorsally tinged with brown. Fore wing creamy 

 white tinged in parts with brown and slightly irrorated with 

 black, the termen yellowish tinged with rvifous ; a slight curved 

 blackish subbasal line from costa to vein 4 ; antemedial line 

 reddish brown defined on inner side by white, oblique to sub- 

 median fold, then almost obsolete ; some white in end of cell ; 

 reniform slightly defined by red-brown, large, somewhat angled 



