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Show 1896.] MOTHS FROM ADEN AND SOMALILAND. 279 one at the base of the fold and one along the upper edge of the outer half of the fold, another at the lower edge of the discal cell beyond the middle, almost joining a more slender one beyond it, which nearly attains the termen; on the middle of the costa is a short oblique greyish-fuscous shade ; cilia greyish, tending to ochreous along their base at the tornus, with slender darker lines running through them. Underside shining pale greyish; 3 with a conspicuous tuft of jet-black hairs arising near the base of the dorsum. Exp. cd. 13 m m . Hind wings shining, somewhat iridescent, bluish grey: cilia greyish ochreous. Underside shining pale greyish. Abdomen greyish, inclining to ochreous at the base. Legs pale greyish ochreous, with faintly spotted hind tarsi. Type, 3 2 • Hab. S.W. Arabia-Aden (8 specimens, Yerbury, Nurse) ; Africa -Algeria (one specimen, Coll. Ragonot). Larva in seed-pods of Acacia edgworthii-excl. 7-23. III. (Yerbury); Acacia famesiana (Ragonot "No. 1137, Wlsm. 1894"). I first received an example of this species for examination from my late friend Monsieur E. Eagonot, who called m y attention to the peculiar tuft of black hair-scales on the underside of the fore wing of the 3 • H e had received it from Algeria bred from Acacia famesiana, but I am not aware that he had published any description of it before his death, although I told him that I quite agreed with him in regarding it as a new species. ELACHISTIDI. LAVERNA, Crt. LAYERNA GAMBIELLA, Wlsm. Laverna gambiella, Wlsm. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1891, p. 117, pi. v. 54 (1891) \ Hab. W . Africa-Gambia»; S.W. Arabia-Aden, 12 IV. 1895 (Nurse). SCYTHRIS, Hb. = § BUTALIS, Tr. SCYTHRIS OCHREA, Wlsm., Sp. n. Antennae pale ochreous. Palpi pale brownish ochreous. Head and thorax pale brownish ochreous. Fore wings and cilia unicolorous pale brownish ochreous, the latter becoming slightly paler at the tornus. Hind wings cinereous; cilia brownish ochreous. Exp. al. 13 m m . Abdomen greyish. Legs pale greyish ochreous. Type, $. Hab. Aden, 21 III. 1895 (two specimens, Nurse). AUied to Butalis subeburnea, Wlsm. |
