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Show 258 LORD WALSINGHAM AND MR. G. F. HAMPSON ON [Feb. 18, and Tineidce is by Lord "Walsingham, the remainder by myself, in which part only such synonymy is given as is necessary to elucidate Mr. Butler's previous paper. The types of the new species have been presented to the collections of the British Museum and Lord Walsingham by Col. Terbury and Capt. Nurse. -G. F. H. AECTIIDJ:. LlTHOSIIN-E. SECUSIO STRIGATA, Wlk. ii. 559. Zaila, Somaliland. DEIOPIA PULCHELLA, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. 2, 884. Aden; Zaila, Somaliland. NYCTEOLINJB. EARIAS INSULANA, Boisd. Faun. Madag. p. 121, pi. 16. f. 9. Aden ; Lahej; Zaila, Somaliland. AROTIIN-E. SPILOSOMA ARABICUM, n. sp. (Plate X. fig. 25.) Dull greyish white; legs crimson, grey, and black ; palpi black above ; antenna? black, the basal joint crimson; a crimson line behind the head and streak on shoulders; patagia with paired black spots; abdomen crimson, with dorsal black spots; anal tuft in female grey. Fore wing with more or less black on base of costa ; an antemedial series of five black spots bent inwards below median nervure ; a black discocellular patch divided into a cluster of spots by the veins; a curved postmedial series of spots, commencing with an elongate spot below costa, and with black specks and spots beyond it below costa and near veins 5 and 2. Hind wing with discocellular spot, and sometimes with two or three submarginal spots. Hab. Aden (Yerbury). Exp. 3 32, $ 38 mm. NOLIN^!. Genus ARCHINOLA, nov. Palpi porrect, extending about the length of head and thickly scaled, the 3rd joint concealed; maxillary palpi large and triangularly dilated with scales; proboscis small; antenna? of male minutely ciliated, the basal joints dilated with scales; legs and tibial spurs moderate. Fore wing with a few scattered raised scales ; vein 3 from before angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from upper angle ; 7, 8, 9 stalked ; 10, 11 free. Hind wing with vein 3 from before angle of cell; 4, 5 from angle; 6, 7 on a long stalk ; 8 anastomosing with the cell to near end. |
