MOTHS FROM SOMALILAXD. 175 



Pachyzancla ph^opteralis Guen. 

 1908 : Sept. 20,-1 $ . 



Pachyzancla basalts Wlk, 



1908: Feb. 24,-1 $. 1909: Apr. 10,-1 $. 



Pachyzancla bipunctalis F, 



1908: Sept. 30,-2 $; Nov. 24,-1 ?. 



Phlyct^nodes nudalis Hiibn. 



1908 : Sept. 26,-1 $ ; Sept. 29,-1 $ . 



Antigastea catalaunalis Dup. 

 1908: Sept. 18,-1 ?. 



ISTOORDA blitealis Wlk. 



1909 : May 10,-2 ? . 



Mecyna gilvata F. 



Handera.— 1908 : Sept. 3,-1 J : Sept. 11,-1 J ; Nov, 13, 

 —2 5; Nov. 14,-1 $; Nov. 18,-1 J. 1909: Jan. 14,-1 $; 

 May 9,-1 2; Oct. 19,-1 (^ ; Oct. 22,-2 d ; Nov. 10,-1 ?. 



Gan Libbah.— 1908 : June 25, — 1 <S . 



Pionea melanostictalis, sp. n. (PI. II. fig. 46, d" •) 



' (^ 2 • Head and thorax grey tinged with brown, the vertex of 

 head white ; palpi red-brown, white at base; pectus and legs mostly 

 white, the fore tibiae and tarsi brown ringed with white ; abdomen 

 grey-brown with white segmental rings, the ventral surface white. 

 Fore wing whitish tinged and irrorated with brown, the costal 

 area browner; small antemedial black spots on subcostal and 

 median nervures, vein 1, and above inner margin ; a black point 

 in the cell towards extremity and discoidal bar : postmedial line 

 black, dentate to vein 4, then with oblique bar to vein 2, then 

 retracted to below end of cell and excurved at submedian fold 

 and slightly above inner margin ; a curved series of blackish 

 points just before termen and a terminal series. Hind wing 

 whitish suffused with red-brown ; traces of a curved brown post- 

 medial line; a terminal series of slight brown points; cilia white 

 with a faint brown line near base. 



1908: Sept. 23,-1 ? ; Sept. 27,-1 2,1 ^ (type); Oct. 11, 

 —1 2 (B.M.); Nov. 24,-1 §. Bxp. 16 millim. 



Pionea rubritinctalis, sp. n. (PI, II. fig. 45, $ .) 



2 . Head and thorax ochreous yellow tinged with rufous ; frons 

 with white lines at sides ; palpi white in front at base ; pectus 

 and legs white ; abdomen reddish ocbreous, the ventral surface 

 white. Fore wing ochreous yellow tinged with rufous ; traces of 

 an oblique rather diffused rufous antemedial line ; a more distinct 



