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Show 264 LORD WALSINGHAM AND MR. G. F. HAMPSON ON [Feb. 18, GNAMPTONYX VILIS, Wlk. xxxiii. 889. Aden. PSEUDOPHIA BENENOTATA, Warr. P. Z. S. 1888, p. 313. Lahej and Shaik Othman, Arabia. PSEUDOPHIA DEYIA, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1884, p. 520, p. 48. f. 3. Aden; Lahej, Arabia. PSEUDOPHIA INDECISA, Wlk. xii. 829. Aden. PSEUDOPHIA OCHRIBASALIS, n. sp. (Plate X. fig. 31.) Head and thorax ochreous ; abdomen dirty white. Fore wing with the basal third ochreous, the outer two-thirds fuscous; a short waved subbasal line from costa with grey inside it; a post-medial line excurved and sinuous between ^eins 6 and 3, with ochreous on its outer edge and ochreous discocellular spot inside it; traces of a dentate grey submarginal line arising from an ochreous mark on costa; a marginal series of white specks; cilia grey at tips. Hind wing semihyaline white, with fuscous marginal band narrowing from costa to vein 2. Hab. Aden (Yerbury, Nurse). Exp. 3 22, $ 26 mm. SPHINGOMORPHA CHLOREA, Cram. Pap. Exot. ii. pi. 104. f. C. Sphingomorplia monteironis, Butl. A. M. N. H. (4) xvi. p. 406. Aden. OPHIUSA MELICERTE, Drury, Exot. Ins. i. p. 46, pi. 23. f. i. Achcea catella, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 247. Aden; Zaila, Somaliland. Larva a semilooper with broad blue-black dorsal line and paired lateral creamy-white lines ; food-plant Euphorbia systyla, OPHIUSA ALGIRA, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 836. Aden. HYP^ETRA LEUCOPTERA, n. sp. (Plate X. fig. 1.) White, very slightly suffused with brown and irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing with slightly sinuous curved antemedial black line, with fuscous suffusion on its inner edge; a postmedial black line slightly sinuous from costa to vein 4, then bent inwards to below end of cell, and outwardly oblique to inner margin, its outer edge with fuscous suffusion, broad in the sinus below middle; a subapical black spot and marginal series of specks. Hind wing with slight postmedial and marginal fuscous suffusion. Hab. Aden (Nurse). Exp. 28 mm. PLECOPTERA REFLEXA, Guen. Noct. ii. p. 430. Zaila, Somaliland. One female. |