210 REVISION OF AUSTRALIAN TORTKICINA, 



24. HOMONA Walk. 



Homona Walk., Cat. xxviii., 424(1863)... ... type coffearia. 



Ericia Walk., Cat. xxxv., 1802(1866) ... ... type cestivana. 



Anisogona Meyr., Proc. Linn. See N. S. Wales, 



1881, 464 ... ... ... ... ... type siinilana. 



Antennae in ^ ciliated. Palpi rather short, ascending, with 

 appressed scales, terminal joint short. Thorax without crest. 

 Forewings with 3 from angle, 7 and 8 stalked, 7 to ternien. 

 Hindwings with 3 and 4 connate, 5 approximated to 4 at base, 

 6 and 7 stalked. 



A development of Caccecia, to which it closely approaches. 

 Besides the following, there are a few closely allied Indo-Malayan 

 species. The typical JI. coffearia is a highly prolific and injurious 

 pest of tea-plantations in Ceylon, 



137. H. mediana Walk. 



(Pandemis mediana Walk., Cat. xxviii, 311.) 



^^. 18-20 mm. Head and thorax reddish-fuscous or reddish- 

 grey, sides of crown tinged with whitish. Antennal ciliations in 

 ^ 1. Abdomen grey. Forewings elongate, posteriorly dilated, 

 costa anterior!}' moderately arched, in ^ without fold, posteriorly 

 in (J almost straight, in ^ slightly sinuate, apex obtuse, termen 

 sinuate, rather oblique; brownish, reddish-fuscous, or reddish- 

 grey, with transverse series of darker strigulse except in darkest 

 specimens; basal patch and central fascia sometimes obscurely 

 darker but usually obsolete; costal patch darker, triangular, 

 sometimes obsolete; sometimes a semioval blotch of dark fuscous 

 suffusion extending over posterior § of dorsum : cilia rather dark 

 fuscous, with a whitish tornal patch. Hindwings grey; costal 

 half whitish, with some small scattered grey spots, towards apex 

 tinged with ochreous; apex itself sometimes suffused with grey; 

 cilia grey-whitish, with grey subbasal line. 



N.S.W. : Blackheath, 3500 feet — Vie. : Beaconsfield, Lome 

 (Lyell), Healesville — Tasm.: Deloraine, Hobart — S. AusT.: Mount 

 Lofty; from October to December, and in March. Forewiugs 



