MOTHS FROM SOMALILAND. 181 



MeLASINA RECONDITA, sp. 11. 



Antennce pale fuscous ; male pectinate 5. Palpi moderate, 

 densely scaled ; pale fuscous. Head pale fuscous. Thorax whitish 

 cinereous mixed with dark fuscous ; with a dark fuscous tuft 

 posteriorly. Fore loings elongate, rather narrow, termen oblique ; 

 whitish cinereous, strigulate with blackish, and with pale fuscous 

 markings more or less continuously edged with blackish ; a basal 

 patch is indicated by fuscous sufiusion ; on the costa at one-third 

 commences an irregular pale fuscous fascia, contracted (sometimes 

 interi'upted) on the cell, thence widening, but becoming narrow 

 from the fold to the dorsum ; this fascia is connected to a 

 pyriform costal patch of the same colour by a larger pyriform 

 patch on the disc with some extension toward the tornus — these 

 markings usually reach to the costa before the apex, but are some- 

 times disconnected ; a rather conspicuous discal spot, irregular in 

 outline, occurs at the end of the cell on the fuscous patch, below 

 a small, oblong, dai-k-margined fuscous patch ; cilia whitish cine- 

 reous, with seven or eight broad fuscous bars beyond a narrow 

 fuscous dividing line. Exp. al. d" 22-27 mm. ; $ 33-39 mm. 

 Hind wings fuscous ; cilia whitish, with a fuscous line along their 

 base. Abdomen fuscous; female with long exserted ovipositor. 

 Legs cinereous : tarsi barred with fuscous. 



Tyjye 6 (7275) ; $ (7276), Drnt. Det. 



1909 : Mar. 9,-1 6 ; Mar. 10,-2 (^ (including type); Mar. 11, 

 —1 6 ; Mar. 12,-2 J ; Mar. 13,-5 J ; Mar. 15,-1 J ; Mar. 17, 

 —1 S ; Mar. 18,-1 6 ; Mar. 19,— 1 c?, 1 ? (type); Mar. 21,— 

 1 S ; Mar. 26,-2 $ . 1910 : Mar. 16,-1 d . 



EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 



Plate I. 

 Fig. : Fig. 



1. JEstigmene griseata ?. ; 26. Ozarba semitorrida c?. 



2. Secuslo somaliensis 9. ; 27. „ endoscota ^. 



3. Chlor idea (lib iveiiata ..-. ?. 28. „ hemipyra $. 



4. TJialatha melanostrota S. 29. ,, hemisarca $. 



o. llatopo heterochroa <? . j 30. „ exolivacea $. 



6. Acroriesis iguiftisa $. ' 31. „ viesozonata (? . 



7. Odontoretlia featheri <?. '■ 32. „ endoplaga ^, 



8. Athetis discupuiicta $. 33. JSulocastra argyrostrota $. 



9. „ ectomelana (J. . 34. Aulotarache plumheogrisea i^ . 



10. Ethiopica ignecolora $. 35. Constaiitiodes pyraliiia ^. 



11. „ pheeocausta $. 36. Hoplotarache ectorrida $. 



12. FacJiycoa oliuacea 9- . 37. „ ccerideopicta <? . 



13. Mahila albiviridis (J. , 38. Tarache mesoleuca ^. 



14. Acrapcv albicostata (J. 39. ,, miogona $. 



15. JEuterpiodes pictlmargo ^. ; 40. Eutelia grisesoens (j. 



16. „ croceisticta $. I 41. Acanthonyx seriopmicta $. 



17. Faratuerta nana tj. i 42. Cerocala albimacida $. 



1|8. JSiilspa flaoipars (J. 43. Auchenisa cei'urodes ^. 



19. Eublemma eremochroa $. ' 44. Authadistis camptogramma ... $. 



20. ,, oehricosta $. i 45. Catephia pyramidal is (?. 



21. „ arenostrota <?, ; 46. „ pericyma $. 



22. Toana nigrUineata ^. \ 47. „ poliochroa $. 



23. C/iioiio.raittliia leiicopheea (?. , 48. ,, mesonephele ^. 



24. QHdicodia iitrigipennis ^. \ 49. „ eurymelas $. 



25. „ melanographa $. \ 50. Lyncestis diascota $. 



