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Show 1896.] MOTHS FROM ADEN AND SOMALILAND. 271 HETEROGRAPHIS CARNIBASALIS, n. sp. o*. Maxillary palpi thickly scaled ; frons with a rounded prominence ; antenna? laminate. Head and thorax rufous and grey ; abdomen whitish. Fore wing with the basal area rufous, deepening to the antemedial line, which is straight, oblique, white, irrorated with black and inwardly edged with black; the medial, costal, and outer areas irrorated with pink-brown scales, the rest of the medial area diffused with olive-brown ; an oblique white postmedial line irrorated with black scales. Hind wing whitish, suffused towards margin with pale brown. Hab. Aden (Nurse). Exp. 12 mm. HETEROGRAPHIS PRONIPHEA, n. sp. 3 . Maxillary palpi minute ; frons rounded; antenna? ciliated. Head grey ; thorax and abdomen pale rufous. Fore wing pale rufous, suffused with vinous purple ; the costal area white, irrorated with purple, and tapering to base and apex ; a white spot on vein 1 before middle; an indistinct straight whitish submarginal line. Hind wing pale brown ; the cilia white. Hab. Aden (Nurse). Exp. 16 mm. ANCYLOSIS NIGRITARSEA, n. sp. 3. Antenna? with slight sinus and roughened scales on base of shaft. Grey ; palpi white, the extremity of 2nd and the 3rd joint black ; legs white, the tarsi and extremity of hind tibia? black; abdomen with pale rings. Fore wing suffused and irrorated with fuscous; the costal area white, irrorated with red scales, and tapering to base and apex. Hind wing white, with pale brown marginal line. Hab. Shaik Othman, Arabia (Nurse). Exp. 18 mm. ANCYLOSIS FUSCOSPARSELLA, Zell. Aden. Most of the specimens have vein 4 of the hind wing given off just before the margin. NEPHOPTERYX DIVISELLA, Dup. Lep. Fr., Suppl. iv. p. 126, pi. 60. f. ix. Aden. NEPHOPTERYX (THYLOCOPTILA) PAUROSEMA, Meyr. Ent. Mo. Mag. 1885, p. 106. Lahej and Shaik Othman, Arabia. NEPHOPTERYX (SALEBRIA) METAMELANA, n. sp. (Plate X. fig. 7.) Head, thorax, and abdomen grey, the last with the terminal segments blackish in male. Fore wing grey, diffused and irrorated with black ; the costal area whiter to the postmedial line ; a black basal speck; an obliquely sinuous black antemedial hne, with |