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Show 1896.] MOTHS FROM ADEN AND SOMALILAND. 269 LOPHURA NANA, Wlk. viii. 107. Aden. Larva various shades of green or pinkish ; a prominent white lateral stripe with a yellowish stripe above it, and some of the ground-colour between the two ; some specimens with chocolate-coloured dorsal snake-like markings. Food-plant Oldenlandia schimpferi. CEPHONODES HYLAS, Linn. Mant. p. 539. Zaila, Somaliland. PYRALIDJE. GALERIIN^E. AcHRtEA GRISELLA, Fabr. Ent. Syst. p. 289. Aden. CRAMBIN.E. EROMENE OCELLEA, Haw. Lep. Brit. p. 486. Aden. EROMENE PAYONIALIS, n. sp. (Plate X. fig. 28.) Head grey ; thorax white, finely mottled with black scales ; abdomen pale, suffused with fuscous. Fore wing white, finely and thickly mottled with black scales ; traces of an erect antemedial yellow hue; a yellow band from lower angle of cell to inner margin, with four black marks on it; a yellow spot with some black scales on it beyond the cell; a postmedial whitish line excurved between veins 6 and 4. Hind wing white, suffused with fuscous towards outer margin; a fuscous marginal line and a dark line through the cilia. Hab. Aden (Nurse). Exp. 22 mm. PLATYTES ICTERICALIS, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 876, pi. 57. f. Lahej, Arabia. CRAMBUS LEUCOZONELLUS, n. sp. (Plate X. fig. 5.) 2. Head white; thorax white and grey; abdomen white. Fore wing grey ; the costa white, broadening to the subapical line; a white fascia from base along median nervure dividing into three branches towards outer margin, the lowest branch not reaching the margin, a black marginal speck below each branch ; the inner margin with diffused white on it; a rufous postmedial line angled outwards on vein 6 and inwards on vein 2, then bent inwards to inner margin; two ferruginous lines across apex, the inner becoming a sinuous submarginal line. Hind wing white. Another specimen has the costa of fore wing grey; the medial fascia much more diffused and its branches ill-defined. Hab. Aden. Exp. 22 mm. |