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Show 268 LORD WALSINGHAM AND MR. G. F. HAMPSON ON [Feb. 18, black cell-specks and pale waved postmedial and submarginal both wings with fine black marginal line. Hab. Aden (Yerbury, Nurse). Exp. 18 mm. Allied to E. (Fidonia) megiaria, Oberth., and its Egyptian race obscuraria, Beth.-Baker. GEOMETRIN^E. N E M O R I A SOLID ARIA, Guen. Phal. i. p. 348. Shaik Othman and Lahej, Arabia. N E M O R I A PULYEREISPARSA, U. sp. (Plate X. fig. 27.) 2 • Whitish, thickly irrorated and mottled with fuscous brown; both wings with indistinct discocellular spot and waved ante- and postmedial lines. Underside whiter. Hab. Aden. Exp. 22 mm. N E M O R I A DIRECTA, Wlk. xxii. 535. Aden. EUCROSTIS DISPARATA, Wlk. xxii. 567. Aden. SPHINGID^E. ACHERONTIA STYX, Westw. Cab. Or. Ent. p. 88, pi. 42. f. 3. Aden; rare. PROTOPARCE CONYOLVULI, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 798. Protoparce orientalis, Butl. Trans. Z. S. ix. p. 609. Aden. BASIOTHIA MEDEA, Fabr. Spec. Ins. ii. p. 143. Sphinx idricus, Drury, 111. Exot. Ins. iii. pi. 2. f. 2. Aden. DAPHNIS NERII, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 798. Aden. Larva green or orange. Food-plant Adenum obesum. DILEPHILA LIYORNICA, Esp. Schmett. ii. pp. 87, 196, pi. 8. f. 4. Aden. Larva on Bcerhavia elegans. CHJEROCAMPA ALECTO, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 802. Aden ; May, at flowers of Poinciana elata. CHJEROCAMPA CELERIO, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 800. Aden. Larva black or green. Food-plant Boerhavia elegans. MACROGLOSSA TROCHILUS, Hiibn. Samml. exot. Schmett. ii. Shaik Othman, Arabia. |