MOTH& FROM SOMALILAND. 157 



The' ni'ale' froan Hargaisa may perhaps be referred tc ab. cali- 

 data Warr. (IS^ov.. Zool. iv. p, 78), though the ground-colour 

 remains pale ; all three lines are strongly developed ; possibly a 

 distinct species, as the palpus looks a little stronger and the 

 antennje (unfortunately damaged) may have less long ciliation. 



Described from Abyssinia, but extendS' through eastern Africa 

 to the Oape, 



Zamaeada secutaria (Guen..). 



Stegania secutaria Guen, Spec. Gen. Lep.. x, p. 45 (1858). 



Zamarada pidverosa Warr. Nov. Zool. ii. p. 158 (1895). 



Maiidera.— 19Q8 : Sept. 23,-1 S . 



Hargaisa.— 1908 : Oct.,— 1 J . 



Both are small, the Hai-gaisa example rather worn, but 

 apparently more weakly dusted than usual. 



This specieS' is likewise distributed from Abys&inia to the 

 Cape, 



OSTEODES PROCIDATA Guen., Subsp. ERITREENSIS Prout. 



Osteodes prooidata Guen.. Spec. Gen.. Lep. x. p. 177 (1858). 



Osteodes tihrhidentata Guen. ibid. (1858). 



Aspdates semispurcata Walk. List Lep. Ins. Brit. Mus. xxvi. 

 p. 1679 (1862). 



Gan Libbah.— 1908 : June 24,-1 S . 1909 : Nov. 4,-1 $ . 



Both with the dark borders strong (subsp. eritreensis Prout, 

 Nov. Zool. xxii. p. 348,. described from Eritrea). 



Distribution as in the two preceding. Warren (Nov. Zool. ix. 

 p. 529) apparently regarded Guenee's two forms (from Abyssinia 

 and the Cape) as separate species, but Guenee's descrijjtions and 

 the material before me- suggest that Swinhoe (Tr. Ent. iSoc. Lond. 

 1904, p. 504) is correct in uniting them. 



D^SCALMA SUBCURVARIA (Mab.). 



Tephrina siobcurvcD-ia Mab. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. Ixvi. p. 278 

 (1897). 



Hargaisa.— 1908 : Oct.,—! d • 



This species, apparently common throughout East Africa from 

 Abyssinia to Natal, and originally described as from West Africa, 

 has been mixed in our Biitish collections with ohservata Walk. 

 (List Lep. Ins. xxiii. p. 963) from the Cape, but I doubt the 

 correctness of this ; the latter, apart from its much darker and 

 rather more reddish colour, has the median shade of the fore 

 wing more oblique and the postmedian line rather further froin 

 the termen. 



D.ISCALMA PUERILIS,. sp.. n. (PL II. fig. 15, c? .) 



cJ , 16 mm. Face apparently without projecting cone of scales. 

 Antennal joints scarcely projecting, the cilia scarcely as long as 

 diameter of shaft. Head, body, and legs concolorous with wings ; 

 hind tibia dilated, with long hair-pencil, tarsus rather short. 



