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Show 1896.] MOTHS FROM ADEN AND SOMALILAND. 267 ORSONOBA CLELIA, Cram. Pap. Exot. iii. p. 172, pi. 288. ff. B, Shaik Othman, Arabia. LARENTIINjE. Genus ACIDALIASTIS, nov. Palpi minute and hardly reaching beyond the frons; proboscis absent; antenna? of male bipectinated ; hind tibia? with the medial spurs absent. Fore wing with vein 2 from towards end of cell; 4, 5 from angle ; 6 from above middle of discocellulars ; 7, 8, 9,10 stalked, 7 being given off beyond 10, and 9 near the apex; 11 becoming coincident with 12. Hind wing with vein 2 from near angle of cell; 3, 4 from angle ; 5 from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 on a long stalk; 8 anastomosing with the cell to near end of it. ACIDALIASTIS MICRA, n. sp. (Plate X. fig. 20.) Chalky white. Fore wing with oblique brown line from upper angle of cell to inner margin ; a prominent black discocellular spot; an oblique shghtly curved brown postmedial hne. Hind wing with postmedial black speck on inner margin ; both wings with some marginal black specks. Hab. Aden (Nurse). Exp. 10 mm. ACIDALIIN.E. CRASPEDIA ACTUARIA, Wlk. xxii. 752. Aden ; Lahej and Shaik Othman, Arabia. CRASPEDIA JACTA, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1884, p. 526, pi. 48. f. 12. Aden. ACIDALIA TESTACEA, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 863, pi. 57. f. 15. Aden. EPHYRA RUFISTRIGATA, n. sp. (Plate X. fig. 3.) Pale brownish ochreous ; antenna? with the shaft whitish ; wings thickly marked with minute brown stria? and irrorated with a few dark scales; a dark cell-speck and traces of postmedial and sub-marginal lines. Underside thickly marked with pink striae and with incomplete pink submarginal line. Hab. Aden; Shaik Othman, Arabia (Nurse). Exp. 22 mm. EMMILTIS NIGRESCENS, n. sp. (Plate X. fig. 2.) 3. Dark brown, irrorated with grey, white, and ochreous. Fore wing with sinuous black antemedial line; a black discocellular spot on an obscure line which is bent inwards below cell; a postmedial line slightly bent outwards between veins 6 and 3, the area between it and the medial line suffused with brown ; a sinuous white sub-marginal line with a more prominent and whiter sinus at middle and dark suffusion on its inner edge. Hind wing browner, with |