MOTUS FROM SOMALTLAND. 151 



half, termen of fore wing slightly more curved, of hind wing 

 not subcrenulate ; terminal line accompanied proximally by a fine 

 whitish line (as in pulchellata), and on the fore wing expanded 

 into a large triangular dot anteriorly to SC", fringe more strongly 

 dark-dotted than in submutata ; under surface glossy, that of 

 hind wing scarcely paler than that of fore wing, discal dots 

 rarely quite obsolete, fore wing generally with noticeably dark- 

 ened border distally. 



1908: Feb. 13,-1 ?; Sept. 15,-1 d; Sept, 22,-1 $ ; Nov. 

 13,-1 2 ■ 1909 : Jan. 12,-1 $ ; Jan. 20,-1 $ ; Feb. 18,-1 d ; 

 Mar. 24,-1 J (type) ; Apr. 14,-1 $ . 



There is also a male from Port Sudan (Mrs. E. N. Waterjield) 

 in coll. Brit. Mus., and a larger one from Bhuj Kutch {Lt.- 

 Colonel C. G. Nurse). 



Rather variable in colour and in the strength of the markings. 

 Related to Acidalia [Pylarge) ocellicincta Warr. (Nov. Zool. viii. 

 p. 9), from British East Africa. 



Acidalia pulchellata Fab. 



Phalena pulchellata Fab. Ent. Syst. iii. (2) p. 171 (1794). 



Acidalia addictaria Walk. List Lep. Ins. Brit. Mus. xxii. 

 p. 749 (1861). 



Craspedia addictaria Hmpsn. Faun. Ind., Moths, iii. p. 429 

 (1895). 



"? Craspedia rufinuhes Warr. Nov. Zool. vii. p. 91 (1900). 



1908 : May 4,-1 S ■ 1909 : Mar. 24,-1 $ ; Apr. 24,-1 $ ; 

 May 6,-1 $ . 1910 : Mar. 18,-1 $ . 



Mostly of a more ruddy form than the Indian. The British 

 Museum collection has one quite similar from Aden. 



Acidalia timia, sp. n, (PL II, fig. 19, $,) 



5 , 21-26 mm. Face blackish fuscous, veiy nai-rowly pale- 

 edged beneath. Palpus fuscous above, pale beneath. Antenna 

 (as in nepheloperas) unusually strongly ciliated for a female, the 

 cilia fully one-half as long as diameter of shaft. Vertex, thorax, 

 and abdomen concolorous with wings ; collar ochreous. Fore 

 femur darkened on upper side. Fore wing with apex not very 

 sharp, termen straight anteriorly, gently curved posteriorly, not 

 extremely oblique ; palest fleshy ochreous, rather glossy (similar 

 to heckeraria Led., but still paler), without dark irroration, but 

 in places slightly clouded with less whitish fleshy-ochreous ; 

 antemedian and median lines (or nari-ow shades) ochreous, very 

 feeble, sometimes almost entirely obsolete, the former sometimes 

 marked with darker dots on SC, M, and SM^ ; discal dot usually 

 distinct, sometimes elongate, placed on the median shade ; post- 

 median line fine and faint, but marked with fuscous dots on the 

 veins (a larger one at costa), shaped about as in heckeraria ; 

 darker ochreous, fuscous-dotted spots or patches commonly follow 

 the postmedian between the radials and at po»sterior margin ; 

 terminal line ochreous, very feeble, especially posteriorly ; fringe 



