IIOTHS FROM SOMALir^AND. 155 



1909 : Mar. 24,-1 2 (type). 



Near torrida Warr. (iSTov. Zool. xi. p. 468), termen of bind 

 wing less protuberant, antemedian line more acutely angled, not 

 connected with median by dark shading, under surface more 

 strongly marked. 



Ptychopoda kighosticta Warr. (?). 



Ptycliopoda nigrosticta Warr. Nov. Zool. iv. p. 61 (1897). 



1908 : Feb. 24,-1 $ (rather worn). 



The large discal dots and the markings, so far as they can be 

 made out, suggest the more mottled foims of this species, but the 

 former are perhaps somewhat exaggerated, the wings are rather 

 more coarsely dusted, with stronger dark markings near the 

 termen, the underside with the cell less infuscated and with the 

 spot near the tornus apparently wanting. Described from Natal 

 and occurs in the Transvaal and, perhaps, British East Africa, 

 but it is b}^ no means certain that these more northerly speci- 

 mens belong here ; they may be slightly narrower winged. Good 

 specimens, and especially the male, must be awaited. 



Ptychopoda sp. 



1908 : Aug. 26,-1 $ . Rather rubbed. 



Probably new, unless it be a foim of suhpurpurata Stgr. (from 

 Syria, etc.). Rather uniform reddish sand-colour, very weakly 

 marked : fore wing with traces of a strongly sinuous darker 

 median line, hind wing with fine, strongly sinuous postmedian 

 line ; both these lines marked with some fuscous dusting. 



Ptychopoda aperta, sp. n. (PI. II. fig. 16, S .) 

 cJ, 17 mm. Face dark fuscous. Palpus short and slender, 

 dark fuscous. Tongue slight. Antennal ciliation scarcely longer 

 than diameter of shaft. Head, boily, and legs about concolorous 

 with wings ; fore leg fuscous above ; abdomen dorsally belted 

 with fuscous. Fore wing with all the subcostals on a common 

 stalk, through suppression of distal wall of areole (base of 

 SC^~^) ; brown with a tinge of reddish and with rather coai'se 

 blackish-fuscous irroration, mainly longitudinal in direction ; 

 base more strongly irrorated costally ; first line ill-defined, bent, 

 becoming oblique inwards, with some black marking near costa ; 

 median shade also ill-defined (especially in anterior half), strongly 

 sinuous, the proximal curve in submedian area being rather deep; 

 postmedian line well expressed, from a black spot at two-thirds 

 costa to one at about three-fourths hind margin, forming a slight 

 outward curve from SC^ to M"* and a stronger submedian inward 

 curve, marked throughout with small dark dashes on the veins ; 

 some broad, vague, irregular dark shading between this and 

 termen ; fringe with large black spots opposite the veins. Hind 

 wing with termen somewhat sinuate towards tornus : M' separate 

 at its origin from R'' ; concolorous with fore wing, the median 



