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Show 272 LORD WALSINGHAM AND MR. G. F. H A M P S O N O N [Feb. 18, ochreous band on its inner edge, inside which is sometimes black spot below median nervure ; the two discocellular black specks sometimes conjoined into a lunule and with an ochreous and black mark on costa above them; a submarginal sinuous black line, with ochreous band on its outer edge and diffused black patch beyond it on costa. Hind wing white ; both wings with fine black and ochreous marginal line, most prominent on fore wing, which has two fine dark lines through the cilia. Underside of male with a jet-black spot at base of costa of hind wing. Hab. Aden (Nurse). Exp. 20 mm. NEPHOPTERYX (SALEBRIA) NIGRISTRIATA, n. sp. (Plate X. fig. 22.) o*. Head and thorax white, irrorated with black; abdomen brownish. Fore wing white irrorated with black, the inner area tinged with ochreous; a short black streak below the base of costa ; a long streak below median nervure and a short streak on median nervure; an antemedial black line running out to an acute angle to lower angle of cell, then interrupted; postmedial black streaks on subcostals and veins 6, 5, and 1; a double submarginal black line slightly excurved at middle. Hind wing ochreous white. Underside with a jet-black spot on base of costa of fore wing. Hab. Aden (Nurse). Exp. 14 mm. PHYCITA PH03NICOCRASPIS, 11. Sp. 3. Palpi wdth the second joint hollowed out to receive the maxillary palpi, which are triangular aud flattened against the frons ; antenna? with a sinus at base of shaft containing a ridge of large scales. Head and thorax grey, irrorated with a few pink scales ; abdomen white. Fore wing fuscous, thickly irrorated with white and pink scales ; a white costal fascia thickly irrorated with pink from before middle to near apex; an ill-defined brown antemedial band; an indistinct medial line excurved at middle ; a brown patch at lower angle of cell; a submarginal sinuous line with a brown patch on its inner side. Hind wing iridescent hyaline white, with fuscous marginal line and line through the cilia. Hab. Aden (Yerbury). Exp. 20mm. Larva gregarious ; yellow with black bands; much infested by Ichneumons; feeds on a prickly shrub. PHYCITA POTERIELLA, Zell. Isis, 1846, p. 743. Aden. EPICROCIS (CANDIOPE) JOANNISELLA, Eag. Nouv. Gen. Phyc. p. 14; Mon. Phyc. pi. 10. f. 12. Aden. EPICROCIS (CANDIOPE) ERUBESCENS, n. sp. (Plate X. fig. 30.) 3. Differs from E. joannisella in being suffused with pink. Pore wing with the first line more medial and with a dark patch before |
