224 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. vol. xxxv. 



PH^OCYMA VIRIDANS (Guenee). 



1852. Homoptera viridans Guenee, Spec. Gen., Noct., Ill, p. 13. 



Yellow brown, ranging to smoky in the female. Primaries, in the 

 male, the basal area a little darker, outwardly limited by the very 

 oblique, geminate, brown t. a. line. There is a narrow shade band of 

 bine in which the brown, pnnctiform orbicular is visible; there are 

 two incomplete transverse dusky lines and the reniform is obscurely 

 indicated by a few pale scales and a slightly darker shading. T. p. 

 line slender, black, single, outwardly denticulate in the interspaces. 

 S. t. line broken, obscure, brown, on the whole almost parallel with 

 the outer margin, emphasized on the costa by an apical smoky shade 

 and below the middle by a blackish brown fascia from the middle of 

 outer margin, curved to the inner margin just within anal angle. 

 There is a yellowish, broken terminal line, preceded by dark inter- 

 spaceal blackish marks which are most conspicuous just above the 

 anal angle. Secondaries with obscure discal lines to the double extra- 

 median black lines which tend to form a band, outwardly margined 

 by yellow and followed by a shading of blue. In the female the pri- 

 maries are so crossed by brown strigillations, more or less mixed with 

 mossy green scales and shades, that no other maculation is recog- 

 nizable except the characteristic t. p. line, which is brown rather than 

 black and not conspicuous. The marking of the outer portion of the 

 wing is barely indicated. On the secondaries the transverse striations 

 are equally abundant, but the double outer black line is distinct, and 

 there is more or less green or blue in the dusky shading beyond it. 

 Beneath, both sexes are yellowish with numerous transverse brown 

 striations. 



Expands, 2-2.20 inches = 50-55 mm. 



Habitat. — Miami and Marco, Florida. 



I have only two males and three females, none of them perfect and 

 all of them with thoracic vestiture defective. I have cited only the 

 original description of the species because I am not at all sure that 

 the species has been correctly referred to later and still less certain that 

 some other names should not be referred here. The species that I 

 have agrees fairly well with Guenee's characterization and is the same 

 as that in the Schaus collection, U. S. National Museum, marked as 

 compared with the type in Paris. 



The species differs from all others of those in our fauna by having 

 on the underside of the male secondaries a large area of fine long hair 

 which covers a large part of the disc, and on the cell of the primaries 

 a less conspicuous clothing of similar hair. The tuftings of the 

 middle femora of male are also large and similar to that in fictilis. 



The male genitalia are symmetrical or nearly so. The harpes are 

 moderate in size, but stout and with obliquely spatulate tips; the 



