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Show 1896.] MOTHS FROM ADEN AND SOMALILAND. . . 277 S B S 11 D M. Genus CRINIPUS, nov. Palpi upturned and reaching vertex of head, the 2nd joint moderately fringed in front, the 3rd short; proboscis present; antenna? of male with minute fascicles of cilia; mid and hind tibia? with medial and terminal tufts of hair; hind tarsi with the 1st joint tufted. Fore wing with veins 2 and 3 closely approximated from angle of cell; 4,5, 6 at intervals ; 7, 8 stalked. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell or shortly stalked ; 5 absent; 6 from below upper angle. Allied to Aschistophleps and Oligophlebia, Hmpsn. CRINIPUS LEUCOZONIPUS, n. sp. (Plate X. fig. 21.) Head, thorax, and abdomen black ; palpi in front, frons, and a line behind the eyes white; tibia?, tarsi,and 4th segment of abdomen banded with white ; some grey scales on 1st and last abdominal segments. Wings hyaline, the veins black; fore wing with black margins and discocellular band; both wings with the cilia brown. Hab. Aden (Yerbury, Nurse). Exp. 14 mm. PTEROPHORIDJE. TRICHOPTILUS, Wlsm. TRICHOPTILUS OXYDACTYLUS, Wkr. Pterophorus oxydactylus, Wkr. Cat. Lep. Ins. B. M. xxx. 944 (1864)K Aciptilia oxydactyla, Wlsm. P. Z. S. 1885, p. 885 (1886) 2. Pterophorus oxydactylus, Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 528-9, pi. 209. 16 (1887)3; Swinh. & Cotes, Cat. Moths Ind. p. 669. no. 4549 (1889)4. [? = Trichoptilus centetes, Meyr. Tr. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1886, p. 16- 175; 1887, p. 2666; Wlsm. P. Z. S. 1891, p. 494-5 (1892)7.] Imago. 15 II.-9 III. (Yerbury, Nurse), IX.,2 [?XI.5], XII.2 Hab. Ceylon1,3; India-Poona2,Bombay4; S.W. Arabia-Aden (Yerbury, Nurse); Lahej (Yerbury, Nurse) ; [?New Guinea-Port Moresby5; ?Queensland6; ? West Indies-St. Vincent7]. ToETEICIDiE. OLETHREUTIN^;. PAMMENE, Hb. PAMMENE PHARAONANA, Kllr. Grapholitha pharaonana, Kllr. Wien. ent. Monats. ii. p. 154-8, pi. v. 1-5 (1858)l. ' Grapholitha, sp., Frfld. Ver. z.-b. Ges. Wien, ix. Abh. p. 321-3, pi. vi. 1, pi. vh. 2 (1859)a. |