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Show 1896.] MOTHS FROM ADEN AND SOMALILAND. 263 EUTELIINiE. EUTELIA DISCISTRIGA, Wlk. xxxiii. 823. Aden; Zaila, Somaliland. GONOPTERIN^. COSMOPHILA MESOGONA, Wlk. xiii. 1002. Aden; Zaila, Somalhand. COSMOPHILA SABULIFERA, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 404. Gonitis propinqua, Butl. P. Z. S. 1884, p. 497. Aden; Zaila, Somaliland. COSMOPHILA EROSA, Hiibn. Zutr. Samml. exot. Schmett. ii. 19, ft. 287, 288. Aden • Zaila, Somaliland. CHURIA ARCUATA, Wlk. xii. 779. Zaila, Somaliland. QUADRIFINjE. NYCTIPAO LATONA, Cram. Pap. Exot. i. p. 20, pi. 13. f. B. Aden. POLYDESMA QUENAYADI, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 438. Aden. POLYDESMA VETUSTA, Wlk. xxxiii. 875. Aden. MELIPOTIS ATROSIGNATA, Wlk. xv. 1770. Aden. MELIPOTIS YERBURYI, Butl. A. M. N. H. (6) x. p. 327. Aden. MELIPOTIS MELANODONTA, n. sp. Head and thorax grey, irrorated with brown and black; abdomen brownish ochreous. Fore wing whitish, suffused with pale reddish brown and irrorated with black ; an indistinct highly waved ante-medial black line; an ill-defined lunulate discocellular mark ; traces of two waved medial lines and of a minutely dentate postmedial line excurved beyond cell, then bent inwards to the medial lines ; a dentate submarginal line sending some dentate black marks inwards; the marginal area rufous; a marginal series of black stria?; cilia whitish, with three dark patches. Hind wing ochreous, the outer area browner; indistinct sinuous postmedial and curved submarginal lines; cilia white. Hab. Aden (Yerbury). Exp. 24 mm. |