272 PROCEEDINCS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxxv. 



I have not been able to apply this description satisfactorily, but 

 suspect that it refers to benesignata Harvey. There is no other that 

 has the same contrasting- gray and black maculation; but, on the other 

 hand, I could not call the primaries " Shining, cinereous, on a black 

 ground." I am compelled, therefore, much to my regret, to leave 

 this name without definite application. 



Among the material sent me by Doctor Dyar for examination was 

 a single example from the Schaus collection, labeled Miami, Florida, 

 j« nd without much doubt actually taken there. It was associated in 

 the collection with South American examples marked Homoptera 

 sexplagiata Walker, and is apparently the same species. 



This form is utterly unlike any other of our American species and 

 is tropical in t}^pe. It is an example of that element that extends 

 into our political boundaries at certain points, but is not a part of 

 the faunal region to which all but a very small area of North 

 America north of the Mexican boundary line naturally belongs. 



Had the species fitted naturally into any of the groups of our spe- 

 cies I would have included and called attention to it there. As it 

 does not, I present a copy of Walker's original description : a 



HOMOPTERA SEXPLAGIATA. 



Mas. Cervma, subtus cinerea; thorax r punctis albis subfascial us; pectus 

 fuscum; abdomen cinereum; alee lineis plurimis transversis undulatis aiyris; 

 anticw fascia incompleta basali, lituris costalibus plagisque duubus magnis sub- 

 marginalibus subviridiscentibus albis; posticw basi testacew, fascia abbreviata 

 subfusiformi submarginali alba. 



Male. — Fawn colour, cinereous beneath. Thorax with some white speckles, 

 which form incomplete bands. Pectus brown. Abdomen cinereous. Wings 

 with numerous transverse undulating black lines. Fore wings with an incom- 

 plete white band near the base, with white marks along the costa, and with 

 two large submarginal white indistinctly iridescent patches, forming a broad 

 interrupted band. Hind wings with a subfusiform submarginal band like that 

 of the fore wing in colour, shortened in front ; base testaceous. Length of 

 the body 7* lines; of the wings 20 lines. 



a. Brazil. From Mr. Stevens' collection. 



LIST OF THE SFECIES OF ITLEOCYMA Hiibner. 



Subgenus Ph.eocyma vera — Cont'd. 



/'. edusina Harvey. 



atritincta Harvey. 

 /'. undularis Drury. 



nigricans Bethune. 

 var. umbripennis Grote. 

 /'. aeruginosa Guenee. 



plenipennis Walker. 

 /'. insuda Smith. 

 /'. norda Smith. 

 /'. minerea Guenee. 



obliqua t Walker. 



aUmfasciata Bethune. 



Subgenus Ph.-eocyma vera. 

 I', (.r ha nst a (iuenee. 

 P. flctilis Guenee. 



guadulpensis (iuenee. 

 /'. viridans (iuenee. 

 /'. Iiuiata Drury. 



edusa Drury. 

 putrescens ( iuerin. 

 involuta Walker. 

 saundersii Bethune. 

 salicis I'.ehr. 

 roste Behr. 



Catalogue of Heterocera, etc., XI 1 1, 1857, p. 1064 



