. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 384 :. Genus HOM^A. Homma, Giieii. Noct. iii. p. 206 (1852) Type. clathrum. Proboscis fully developecl ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint hardly reaching to vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd long and somewhat acuminate at tip ; frons smooth, with tuft of hair above; eyes large, round ; antennse of male ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed and without crests; tibite of male and the hind tarsi above typically fringed with long hair, the fore and hind tibire not spined ; abdomen smoothly scaled
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum. Moths. 384 :. Genus HOM^A. Homma, Giieii. Noct. iii. p. 206 (1852) Type. clathrum. Proboscis fully developecl ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint hardly reaching to vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd long and somewhat acuminate at tip ; frons smooth, with tuft of hair above; eyes large, round ; antennse of male ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed and without crests; tibite of male and the hind tarsi above typically fringed with long hair, the fore and hind tibire not spined ; abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests. Fore wing with the apex rounded ; the termen evenly curved, crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anasto- mosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the termen crenulate ; the cell about one-thii'd length of wing; veins 3, 4 from angle ; 6 fully developed from above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. Sect. I. Tibiae of male, the basal joints of fore tarsi, and the hind tarsi above fringed with long hair. 7494. Hornsea clathrum. Homma clathrum, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 207 (1852); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 551. Head and thorax blackish brown mixed with whit«; palpi white, the 3rd joint blackish except at extremity; frons with black bar, and a black bar between antennfe ; tegulae with black bands near base and at tips; pectus and legs white tinged with brown ; abdomen ochreous brown with white band at base and slight whitish segmental lines, the ventral surface white tinged with. Fig. 82.—Homaa clathrum, J brown. Fore wing ochreous brown largely suffused with black, the veins streaked with white to the postmedial line ; subbasal white striae from costa and cell defined on each side by black; antemedial line white defined on each side by black, inwardly. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhan
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