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Show 1896.] MOTHS FROM ADEN AND SOMALILAND. 275 N O O R D A FESSALIS, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1886, p. 459, pi. 41. f. 13. Aden. NOORDA BLITEALIS, Wlk. xix. 979. Aden. ANTIGASTRA CATALAUNALIS, Dup. Le'p. Fr. viii. p. 330, pi. 232. f. 8. Aden; Lahej, Arabia. NOMOPHILA NOOTUELLA, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 136. Aden. PACHYZANCLA MUTUALIS, Zell. Lep. Caffr. p. 40. Zaila, Somaliland. PYRAUSTA ARABICA, Butl. P. Z. S. 1884, p. 500. Aden. PYRAUSTA PHCSNICEALIS, Hiibn. Verz. p. 348. Lahej, Arabia; Zaila, Somaliland. PYRAUSTA INOOLORALIS, Guen. Delt. & Pyr. p. 333. Spilodes nitetisalis, Wlk. xviii. 773. Aden; Shaik Othman, Arabia ; Zaila, Somaliland. PYRAUSTA POSDIUSALIS, Wlk. xviii. 788. Aden. PYRAUSTA INGLORIALIS, Zell., ? MS. Shaik Othman, Arabia. Gen. APLECTROPUS, nov. Palpi porrect, triangularly scaled, the 3rd joint hidden by maxillary palpi filiform; frons rounded ; antenna? of male ciliated; mid and hind tibia? with the terminal spurs minute, the medial spurs absent. Fore wing short and broad, the apex rounded; veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell; 7 straight and well separated from 8, 9. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 5 from above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle, 7 anastomosing with 8 almost to apex. APLECTROPUS LEUCOPIS, n. sp. (Plate X. fig. 10.) Head, thorax, and abdomen black-brown, irrorated with grey ; tarsi pure white. Fore wing reddish brown, irrorated and suffused with fuscous ; a curved dark antemedial hne; a prominent round white discocellular spot; a black line from costa near apex with white beyond it below apex, running out to the margin between 18* |