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Show 502 MR. A. G. BUTLER ON LEPIDOPTERA FROM ADEN. [Nov. 4, SCOPARIID.E. 88. SCOPARIA VINCTALIS. Scopula vinctalis, Walker, Lep. Het. Suppl. iv. p. 1476 (1865). Aden. This has hitherto been known only as an Indo-Australian species. MACARIID^E. 89. T E P H R I N A SUBLIMBATA, sp. n. Upper surface pale sandy brownish, with the external third of the wings greyish, bounded internally by a nearly straight indistinct testaceous line ; fringe whitish, striped with grey ; remainder of the wing-surface transversely speckled with fine brown linear markings ; a subcostal brown dash before the middle on all the wings ; primaries with a marginal series of black dots : head brownish ; collar bounded at tbe back by a dark red-brown stripe; external border of wings below dark smoky grey-brown ; remainder of the wings much clearer and whiter than above: body below slightly yellowish, especially at the sides. Expanse of wings 29 millim. Aden. Though an ordinary-looking insect, there appears to be no described species nearly allied to this Tephrina. PHYCID^E. 90. M E L L A YERBURII, sp. n. Palpi short, compared with M. zinckenella ; size, form, and neura-tion similar : primaries dark leaden-grey ; a narrow pure white subcostal stripe from base to costa near the apex ; costal area also irrorated with white ; fringe whitish, traversed by two grey stripes, the inner one broad and dark ; secondaries semitransparent pearl-white ; the veins, a narrow diffused external border, and a stripe near the base of the fringe brownish : head and collar brown, edged with pure white, thorax dark leaden-grey, tegulae white-edged; abdomen pure white, anal tuft tipped with ochreous : primaries and costa of secondaries below silvery brownish white, remainder of secondaries pearly ; fringes silky whitish ; body below pearl white ; anus ochreous. Expanse of wings 26 millim. Aden. TlNEIDiE. 91. TINEA SWINHOEI, sp. n. Nearest to T. tapetzella, but differing in the external border to the primaries and the less acute form of these wings. Primaries with the basal two fifths reddish "wood-brown," mottled with grey striae, and speckled with black near the costal and dorsal margins ; external border similarly coloured, partly bounded internally by an interrupted blackish streak and interrupted by four white sub-marginal spots ; remainder of wing-surface white, transversely mottled, and beyond the cell banded with ash-grey; a black spot |