. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. ISO XOtTUlD^. with a slif^ht j)Urj)lish tiiij^e and largely suffused with black ; a broad diftused black fascia below tho coll, some black suftusion beyond the cell, i)Ostmedial line entire, subterminal oblique fascia and line prominent and diffused, the latter angled outwards at vein 4 ; hind wing tinged with ])rown, the terminal area strongly suffused with black. Il'il). Caim: Colony, Calvinia Dislr. (AlMon), 1 cf, Uitenhage {Baiuslow),l J, Grahamstown {Misx G. White), 1 $. Exp.^,£ 38, 9 44 millira. Genus HOMONCOCNEMIS. nov.


. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. ISO XOtTUlD^. with a slif^ht j)Urj)lish tiiij^e and largely suffused with black ; a broad diftused black fascia below tho coll, some black suftusion beyond the cell, i)Ostmedial line entire, subterminal oblique fascia and line prominent and diffused, the latter angled outwards at vein 4 ; hind wing tinged with ])rown, the terminal area strongly suffused with black. Il'il). Caim: Colony, Calvinia Dislr. (AlMon), 1 cf, Uitenhage {Baiuslow),l J, Grahamstown {Misx G. White), 1 $. Exp.^,£ 38, 9 44 millira. Genus HOMONCOCNEMIS. nov. Type, //. fort is. Proboscis fully develoiwd ; jialpi i)l)liquely upturned, fiinged with lonp linir in front : frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; anteiinir of female almost simple; head and thorax clothed with hair and hair-like scales and without erestn; fore tibia' with curved claw on outer side ; abdomen witli some rout;h hair at base but without erects. Fore wing with the a|>ex somewhat rounded, tiie terniea nearly evenly curved ; veins '6 and T) from near angle of cell ; G from upper angle; 0 from lOanastomosinsj witli .S to form the areole; 11 from cell. Hing wing with '6. 4 from angle of cell; o obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with cell near base only. 2310. Homoncocnemis fortis. Homohaxlcna fortis, Grote, Can. Ent. xii. p. 257 (1880); Smith, Cat. Noct. p.'161. Homohadcna picina, Grote, Can. Ent. xii. p. 257 (1.*^). Aqrotis vora,i; Bchr. Papilio, iv. p. 21 (1884) (larva); Smith, Papilio, iv, â p. 114. 2 â Head and thorax dark brown with a golden gloss; abdomen pale golden brown. Fore wing dark brown with a purplish gloss ; subbasal line represented by faint dark points below costa and cell; antemedial line represented by slight black points on the veins ; stigmata absent; postmedial line represented by a series of black. Fig. 49.âJlomonroi-iirmis furtis, ^ points on tho veins, bent outwards below c


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