178 PROF, E. B. POULTON OX 



yellowish discoidal spot defined by brown and with brown line 

 from it to above inner margin ; a brown postmedial line from 

 costa to vein 5 and elliptical white spot defined by brown between 

 vein 5 and submedian fold ; a dark brown terminal line ; cilia 

 with series of brown striae near base and brownish tips. 

 1908 : Oct. 29,— 1 cJ (type), ^i^^. 18 millim. 



TINEINA. 

 By Jno. Hartley Durrant, F.E.S. 



L E T H R E U T I D .E. 



EucosMA Hb. 



EUCOSMA SOMALICA, Sp. n. 



Antennce fuscous. Palpi whitish ochreous, more or less mixed 

 with fuscous on the outer side of the median joint. Head 

 -and thorax whitish ochreous, slightly tinged with pink ; tegulaj 

 bi'ownish fuscous, mixed with reddish. Fore wings elongate, 

 slightly dilated posteriorly, male without costal fold, apex obtuse, 

 termen nearly sti-aight, slightly oblique ; whitish ochreous, striate 

 with fuscous and pinkish, with fuscous markings outlined by 

 shining pearly scales ; the mai-kings, which appear more or less 

 irrorate with whitish owing to some of the scales being tipped 

 with white, consist of a basal patch, obtusely angled on the cell, 

 and an irregular central fascia becoming attenuate, or even 

 obsolete, toward the tonius, this fascia is outwardly connected 

 with a subapical quadrate spot ; the costa is strigulate with 

 fuscous, there is also a fuscous apical spot and an interrupted 

 terminal line ; cilia whitish ochreous, with a pinkish gloss, tra- 

 versed by two pale fuscous shade-lines. Exp. al. <S 18-27 $ mm. 

 Hind ivings with 3-4 stalked ; fuscous ; cilia whitish ochreous, 

 traversed by two greyish fuscous shade-lines. Abdomen fuscous 

 with paler transverse lines. Legs whitish ochreous ; tarsi spotted 

 with blackish. 



Type S (7248) ; $ (7249), Drnt. Det. 



1908: Sept. 19,— 1 (^ ; Sept. 20,-1 $ (type); Oct. 24,-1 S 

 (type). 1909 : Jan. 20,-1 $ . 1910 : Mar. 6,-1 5 . 



The female is a little darker than the male, the pearly scaling 

 tending to become leaden, especially toward the tornus. 



T I N E I D vE. 



NoMiMA, gen. n. 



(rofjujuos, 71, ov = conventional.) 



Type : Xomima prophanes Drnt. 



Antenna} g-, with projecting scales on each joint, giving a 

 serrate appearance, and bipectinate 3, eacli pectination ciliate ; 

 basal joint without pecten. Labial palpi porrect, clothed beneath 



