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Show 1896.] MOTHS F R O M ADEN A N D SOMALILAND. 259 The large maxillary palpi are a most remarkable feature in genus, which is otherwise near Pisara, Wlk., and tends to prove the derivation of the Nolinae group of the Arctiidce from the Tineidce, in close relationship with the ancestor of the Scopariince, Schcenobiinae, and lower Pgralidae. ARCHINOLA PYRALIDIA, n. sp. (Plate X. fig. 23.) 3 . Brownish grey. Fore wing slightly irrorated with fuscous ; an antemedial erect fuscous line; a postmedial line curved from costa to vein 3, then incurved to below end of cell. Hind wing pale fuscous. Hab. Aden (Nurse). Exp. 14 mm. AGARISTID^E. EUSEMIA THRUPPI, Butl. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 775. S. of Berbera, Somaliland. NoCTUIDiE. TRIFIN.ffi. GLOTTULA ORIENTALIS, Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 168. Aden. Larva. Head reddish; somites French grey, the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and terminal two light red; each somite with a black ring, the medial ones broadest. Food-plant Pancratium tortuosum. HELIOTHIS NUBIGERA, H.-S. Eur. Schmett. ii. p. 366. Heliothis peltigera, Butl. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 776 (nee Schifferm.). Aden ; Somaliland. HELIOTHIS ARMIGERA, Hiibn. Samml. eur. Schmett., Noct. ii. pi. 79. Aden. HELIOTHIS PICTIFASCIA, n. sp. (Plate X. fig. 8.) 2 • Grey; thorax variegated with ochreous, the patagia with black and white streak; tarsi ringed with black; abdomen pale grey. Fore wing with ochreous spot at base; some ochreous specks on costa; an ochreous fascia below median nervure from base to outer margin irrorated with black, and with three blackish marks on it; a similar fascia from middle of cell to outer margin, with the elongate ochreous orbicular and rounded reniform stigmata on it; a submarginal series of black and ochreous lunules ; a marginal series of black spots ; cilia ochreous at base, pale at tips, with series of fuscous spots. Hind wing pure white. Hab. Zaila, Somaliland (Nurse). Exp. 38 mm. EUPLEXIA OPPOSITA, Wlk. xxxii. 667. Aden. 17* |
