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Apparently nearest to H. wetan Diakonoff and also to H. intermedia 

 Diakonoff both from Java. 



Homona bakeri, new species 



Figures 30-31, 37-38, 497-498 



Male, 18.5-22 mm. Head pale ochreous; palpus brighter ochreoiis, 

 frontally touched ^^dth fuscous. Thorax pale ochreous slightly 

 touched with gre3^ Abdomen pale ochreous. 



Forewing elongate, truncate, costa sinuate, A\dth a large semicircular 

 or semioval fold, sometimes exceeding middle of Anng breadth, apex 

 obtuse-rectangular, termen gently sinuate above, rounded beneath. 

 Pale ochreous, sparsely streA\Ti Avith grey-purple scales, markings light 

 ta^^^ly mixed mth purplish broA\Ti. Costal fold pale tawny, darker 

 than ground color, Anth some five very narrow dark transverse marks, 

 edge of fold roughly ciliated and mixed with dark piu-plish; transverse 

 fascia indicated by a rhomboidal, lilac-grey spot on costa before 

 middle, finely edged Anth blackish piu-ple, and by a fasciate, very 

 oblique streak from upper edge of cell below costal spot, to dorsum 

 before tornus, ta"\\Tiy olive, on dorsmn suffused vdih. grey or piuplish, 

 this suffusion sometimes extending along dorsiun basad; costal 

 patch narrow, fasciate-semioval, from beyond middle of costa to before 

 apex, ta\\Tiy olive, stre\\Ti Avith blackish-purple dots and small lines 

 along costal edge; a small vertical purple line before apex and upper 

 part of termen, preceded by some brownish suffusion. Cilia glossy 

 pale ochreous, slightly mixed -^-ith lilac grey opposite apex. 



HindAnng yelloAnsh ochreous, sometimes suffused on dorsal half 

 with broAMiish, cilia pale ochreous. 



Male genitalia resembling those of Homona intermedia Diakonoff. 

 Tegiunen and uncus very similar. Socius semiparietal (as in inter- 

 media), transtilla also similar. Valva higher than broad, shorter and 

 more triangidar than in that species. Sacculus differently shaped, 

 strongly sclerotized, upper edge with a large triangular dilatation in 

 middle, lower edge with a free, ciu-ved submedian thorn, and an 

 oblique apical shorter one. Aedeagus sclerotized, entirely different 

 from that in intermedia: it is rather straight in lateral aspect, but 

 with top ciu-ved to the left in dorsal aspect, \nth a bifid apex (seen 

 laterally). Cornuti, a few narrow spines. 



Female, 24-30 mm. Head and thorax pale ochreous taAATiy, 

 touched -with grey. Abdomen orange ochreous. 



Fore wing elongate truncate, broadest at 1/3, costa strongly arched 

 anteriorly, sinuate posteriorly, apex produced and somewhat falcate, 

 termen strongly sinuate above, obliquely roimded beneath. Pale 

 ochreous Avith a lilac gloss, with numerous fine transverse ferruginous 

 strigulae, curved and tending to form transverse lines. Basal patch 



