MOTHS FROM SOMALILAND. 153 



extends from Greece and Noi'thern Egypt to Zerafslian and 

 N. W. India, and the British Museum has an example from 

 Yemen, Arabia, but the present specimens extend its known 

 range in Africa. 



ACIDALIA SAGITTILINEA (Warr.), 



Craspedia sagittilinea Warr. Nov. Zool. iv. p. 219 (1897). 

 1909 : Feb. 15,-1 S ; Feb. 16,-1 J ; Feb. 17,-1 d • 

 Described from Mombasa, and I have seen a few from other 

 localities in British East Africa. Both these Somaliland ex- 

 amples ar-e rather less strongly marked (especially beneath), 

 the median shade faint, placed midway between discal dot and 

 post-median line. 



Glossotrophia disparata somaliata, subsp. n. 



2 1 17-19 mm. Name-typical disparata Hmpsn. (Nat. Hist. 

 Socotra, p. 332, Craspiedia) has never been described, its recog- 

 nition hitherto depending on a good, though uncoloured figure 

 (ibid. t. 20. fig. 18), and a note by Rebel (Denks. Akad. Wien. 

 Math.-nat. Kl. Ixxi. 2, Sep. p. 69) to the efi'ect that it belongs to 

 the confinaria grow^ of Acidalia (i.e. Glossotrophia Prout), and 

 that the male antenna might almost be called shortly pectinate 

 {i. e. subdentate with fascicles of cilia). It is the smallest of the 

 genus ; male hind tibia with one spur, hind wing slightly less 

 regularly rounded than in the typical species (slightly bent at 

 R^) ; sand-colour with dense dark irroration, not " fiuted " as in 

 romanaria Mill., terminal line (except towards apex) broken into 

 very short, strong dashes, at and round apex fine and less pro- 

 nounced tha,n in most of the species. Face concolorous. Palpus 

 dark-mixed on outer side. Tongue moderately long. Subsp. 

 somaliata (bon. sp. ?) is rather larger, fore wing slightly longer, 

 irroration much lighter, showing a feeble tendency towards the 

 " fluting " ; terminal dashes more slender and less black, apical 

 line somewhat more pronounced. Palpus with less darjv spotting 

 on outer side. 



1908 : Sept. 14,-1 $ . 1909 : Jan. 11,-1 $ (type). 



Zygophyxia tornisecta, sp. n, 



S , 14 mm.; $ , 16-19 mm. Face and palpus fuscous. Tongue 

 slender, rather short. Antennal ciliation in male moderately 

 long. Vertex white. Collar white, with a slight ochreous tinge. 

 Thorax, abdomen, and legs concolorous with wings. Hind tibia 

 in both sexes with terminal spurs. Wings less narrow than in 

 relictata Walk, (the type of the genus); fore wing only slightly, 

 hind wing decidedly, narrower than in elongaria Rbr., which in 

 some respects it rather recalls ; hind wing with shallow, rounded 

 excision from M~ to tornus, inner mai'gin consequently shortened. 

 Dirty white with a tinge of brownish, and with moderately 

 strong fine brown-grey irroration ; discal dots small, black ; lines 

 generally not sharply defined (in the male particularly weak), 



