MOTHS FROM SOMALILAND. 149 



1909 : Apr. 7,-1 $ (type) ; Apr. 9,-1 $ : Apr. 23,-1 ? . _ 

 I suspect this may prove to belong to the less specialized 

 section Pylarge (male hind tibia with terminal spurs). 



ACIDALIA MINOEATA (Bsd,). 



Geometra [Idea) mhwrata Bsd, Nouv. Ann, Mxis, Hist, ISTat. ii. 

 p. 263 (1833). 



'? Acidalia remotata Guen, Spec, Gen, Lep. ix. p, 458 (1858). 



Acidalia consentanea Walk. List Lep. Ins, Brit. Mus. xxii. 

 p. 745 (1861). 



'^.Acidalia actuaria Walk. ibid, p, 752 (1861), 



'^.Acidalia derasata Walk, ibid, xxvi. p. 1604 (1862). 



1908; July 17,-1 $; Sept, 11,-2 5; Sept, 13,-1 $; Sept. 

 25,-1 2 ; Sept. 30,-1 $ ; Oct. 11,-1 ? ; Oct. 20,-1 2 ; Nov. 

 24,-1 $ , 1909 : Jan. 12,-2 $ ; Oct. 20,-2 $ ; Oct, 29,-1 $ ; 

 Nov. 16,-1$. 



All fifteen females referable, so far as pi-esent knowledge is 

 available, to this veiy common, very widely distributed, and 

 moderately variable species. On an average, the lines are less 

 crenulate and moi'e concise than in the most typical forms, and 

 as there is some slight variation in tlie breadth of the wings, as 

 well as in the tone of colour and strength of markings, I am not 

 prepared to say that there may not be two or three species mixed. 

 One or two examples, in the sparseness of their irroration, recall 

 lactaria Walk. (List Lep. Ins, xxii. p, 744), which, however, is 

 possibly also only an aberrant form of minorata. Distributed 

 throughout Africa,, except, perhaps, the extreme noi^th-west ; 

 also eastward to Aden and, if actuaria is really the same specie,s, 

 to India and Ceylon. 



Acidalia spoliata Walk. (?), 



Acidalia spoliata Walk. List Lep, Ins. Brit, Mus, xxii. p, 744 

 (1861). 



1908 : Nov. 22,-1 $ . 



The single example is of the Qiiiiwrata group, larger than that 

 species, somewhat less reddish and more marked than inter- 

 nataria Walk, (List Lep. Ins, xxii. p, 746), very likely a deeply 

 coloured form of spoliata Walk, (from S. Africa), or, perhaps, a 

 form of the widely distributed Oriental species, nesciaria Walk. 

 (List Lep. Ins. xxii, p. 750), 



Acidalia horiochr<ea, sp. n. 



5 , 20-23 mm. Face blackish. Palpus white beneath, dark- 

 mixed above. Vertex white. Collar pale ochreous. Thorax, 

 abdomen, and legs concolorous with wings, fore femur and fore 

 tibia inf uscated above. Foi'e wing of meditnn breadth, Avith apex 

 moderately pointed ; dirty white, irrorated (variably in strength 

 in the different individuals) with brown-grey ; lines moderately 



