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Show 1896.] MOTHS F R O M ADEN A N D SOMALILAND. 261 TARACHE NOTABILIS, Wlk. xi. 669. Lahej, Arabia. A pale, slightly-marked specimen; fore wing with the costal marks reduced to specks ; hind wing with slight trace of fuscous at apex only. TARACHE YARIA, Wlk. xxxiii. 772. Aden. TARACHE FLAVONIGRA, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1884, p. 522, pi. 47. f. 15. Aden. ACONTIA GRJELLSII, Feisth. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. vi. p. 300, pi. f. 3. Zanthodes innocens, Wlk. xv. 1752. Aden; Lahej, Arabia. ACONTIA INSIGNIS, Butl. P. Z. S. 1884, p. 500. Aden. Larva with three pairs of prolegs; dull orange with interrupted brownish bands between the somites, the four medial bands darker and more prominent; each somite with paired lateral spots ; warty and clothed with short bristles. Food-plant Anarrhinum pedi-cellatum. XANTHOPTERA MESOZONA, n. sp. (Plate X. fig. 9.) 2 . Head, thorax, and abdomen ochreous, the last suffused with fuscous. Fore wing ochreous, a black spot at base of costa and two specks beyond it; a broad medial black band; a black discocellular speck; a faint postmedial line arising from a black spot on costa and excurved below costa; a slightly sinuous silvery submarginal line with black spot inside it on costa; a marginal black line widening at apex. Hind wing fuscous. Hab. Aden (Yerbury). Exp. 20 mm. MARIMATHA SUBFLAVALIS, Wlk. xxxiv. 1205. Aden. * METACHROSTIS QUINARIA, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 371. Shaik Othman, Arabia. METACHROSTIS ATRIBASALIS, n. sp. (Plate X. fig. 11.) 3 . Head and thorax black; abdomen fuscous, ochreous towards base. Fore wing bright ochreous ; the basal area black with erect outer edge; a medial triangular black patch on costa extending almost to lower angle of cell; outer area black with a grey tinge, its inner edge indented at veins 6 and 3. Hind wing pale fuscous. Hab. Aden (Nurse). Exp. 12 mm. This species in facies resembles Acontia insignis and Xanthoptera mesozona, having the same black and yellow coloration. |