MOTHS FROM SOMALILAXD. 109 



4676 a. Rabila albiviridis, sp. n, (PL I. fig. 13, c?.) 



Antennae of male laminate and minutely ciliated. 



d , 2 ' Head, thorax, and abdomen white slightly mixed with 

 brownish ; antennae tinged with ochreons. Fore wing pale 

 yellow-green irrorated with white, the costal area whiter to 

 beyond middle. Hind wing white tinged with brown. Under- 

 side white ; fore wing suffused with brown, except the costa 

 and inner area which are irrorated with brown ; hind wing with 

 the costal and terminal areas irrorated with brown. 



Ab. 1. $. Fore wing with deeper green patch with a golden 

 tinge and defined by whitish on inner basal area, its outer edge 

 rounded and a similar small round spot distinctly defined by 

 white before tornus. 



1908: May 28,-1 $ ; June 2,-1 J ; June 21,-1 S (type). 

 1909: Apr. 6,-1 ?; Apr. 8,-1 d ; Apr. 22,— 1 J; Apr. 23, 

 —1 2 ; May 8,-1 $ (B.M.) ; May 10,-2 d ; Sept. 16,— 

 1 2 ab. (B.M.). Year ? : May,— 1 cT . Exp. 20-24 millim. 



4742 a, Acrapex albicostata, sp. n. (PI. I. fig. 14, ^ .) 



c? . Head whitish mixed with dark brown, the antennae 

 ringed with' brown towards base, thorax white tinged with 

 I'ed-brown, the tegulae with slight brown medial line ; pectus, 

 legs, and abdomen white, the fore legs brown in front. Fore 

 wing white tinged and irrorated with red-brown, the costal 

 edge brown, the inner half dark brown to the postmedial line, 

 extending except at base to discal fold and leaving some yellow 

 on inner margin, met at the postmedial line by an oblique 

 brown fascia from termen below apex ; subbasal and ante- 

 medial slight double oblique brown sti'iae from costa ; a black 

 point in middle of cell and slight striga on discocellulars with 

 point beyond it ; postmedial line slight, brown, strongly bent 

 outwards below costa, then slightly waved, excurved to vein 4, 

 then incurved and double towards inner margin, the area beyond 

 it with black streaks between veins 8 and 4 ; an oblique slightly 

 waved brown subterminal line below the oblique fascia ; a 

 terminal series of black points. Hind wing pure white. Under- 

 side white, the costal area of fore wing tinged with ochreous and 

 iri'orated with red-brown. 



1908 : Sept. 26,-1 d (type). Exp. 22 milliin. 



4755. Sesamia coniota Hmpsn. 

 1909: Jan. 12,-1 $. 



Genus Pachycoa. 



Type, P. olivacea. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, slender, 

 the 2nd joint reaching to about vertex of head and slightly 

 fringed with hair behind at extremity, the 3rd short and 

 thickly scaled ; frons with flattened corneous plate at middle 

 covered by a tuft of hair above and corneous plate below ; eyes 



