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Show 276 LORD WALSINGHAM AND MR. G. F. HAMPSON O N [Feb. 18, veins 5 and 2, then recurved almost to lower angle of cell, grey in the sinus. Hind wing fuscous, with rufous marginal band defined by a black line and narrowing to anal angle. Hab. Aden (Yerbury, Nurse). Exp. 12-18 mm. EURYCREON NUDALIS, Hiibn. Samml. eur. Schmett., Pyr. f. 90. Aden; Shaik Othman and Huswah, Arabia. EURYCREON ALBIFASCIALIS, n. sp. (Plate X. fig. 29.) 2. Head and thorax dark brown and grey with a cupreous tinge; abdomen white suffused with fuscous. Fore wing cupreous brown, irrorated with grey ; a white fascia from base below median nervure and vein 2 to end of cell; a quadrate white spot in end of cell, with a series of three streaks beyond it, running obliquely to costa near apex; the outer margin pale. Hind wing white, suffused with pale fuscous and brown; a dark marginal line. Hab. Aden (Nurse). Exp. 22 mm. DOSARA PALMALIS, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1884, p. 525, pi. 48. f. 11. Aden. METASIA PROFANALIS, Wlk. xxxiv. 1403. Aden. LlMACODIDJE. PARASA FULVI-CORPUS, n. sp. (Plate X. fig. 12.) 3 • Head pale yellow ; collar, patagia, and metathorax fringed with deep fulvous; thorax blue-green ; abdomen pale yellow, dorsum deep fulvous. Fore wing blue-green, the costa pale yellow. Hind wing pale yellow. Hab. Aden (Nurse). Exp. 22 mm. LASIOCAMPIDH. TARAGAMA ACACIJE, Klug, Ehren. Symb. Phys. pi. ix. Shaik Othman, Arabia. COSSIDA EREMOCOSSUS PROLEUCA, n. sp. (Plate X. fig. 24.) Head, thorax, and abdomen white with slight fuscous tinge. Fore wing brown, with broad white costal fascia hardly reaching apex; a white fascia from base of inner margin to middle of vein 1; an oblique white band from outer margin below apex, expanding into a large patch on disc, reaching middle of median nervure. Hind wing white. Hab. Aden (Yerbury, Nurse). Exp. 22-32 mm. The larva feeds on Acacia. |