EOMOPTEBIDjE. 97 



Genus HOMOPTERA? 



Homoptera, Boisd. Guerin's Icon. Rug. Auim. p. 522, pi. 89 (1829). 



HOMOPTERA COSTIFERA. 



Homoptera costifera. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiii. p. 886 (1865). 



" Male. Reddish fawn colour, cinereous fawn colour beneath. Wings with the 

 usual pale denticulated lines almost obsolete ; marginal points white ; lines more 

 distinct beneath : forewings with submarginal white points ; the third from the costa 

 much larger than the others, and accompanied by a more exterior testaceous dot ; 

 a white apical spot containing a black point ; three white costal subapical points ; 

 orbicular and reniform marks nearly obsolete : hindwings with an irregular testaceous 

 mark in the disc. Third joint of the palpi about one-third as long as the second ; 

 thorax with a whitish cinereous band, which is continued along the costa of the 

 forewings. 



" Expanse 8 lines." 



Described by Mr. Walker from specimens in Mr. E. L. Layard's Collection. 



HOMOPTERA PROCUMBENS. 



Homoptera prociimhens. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiii. p. 886 (1865). 



" Female. Brown, slightly tinged with cinereous ; cinereous beneath. Wings 

 with five blackish pale-bordered undulating lines ; marginal lunules black, cinereous- 

 bordered : forewings with some white points along the costa ; orbicular and reniform 

 marks small, black, pale-bordered. 



" Expanse 9 lines." 



Described by Mr. Walker from specimens in Mr. E. L. Layard's Collection. 



HOMOPTERA RETRAHENS. 



Homoptera retrahens, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiii. p. 887 (1865). 



"Male and female. Cinereous fawn colour, more cinereous beneath. Wings 

 with several pale indistinct denticulated lines ; interior and exterior lines blackish, 

 denticulated, the former incomplete ; submarginal points black ; marginal festoon 

 blackish : forewings with blackish marks along the costa ; a blackish spot in the disc 

 beyond the exterior line ; orbicular and reniform marks almost obsolete : hindwings 

 with the interior border fringed. Palpi short ; third joint less than half length of 

 the second ; antenn;© hardly more than half length of the body. 



"Expanse 10 lines." 



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Described by Mr. Walker from specimens in Mr. E. L. Layard's Collection. 



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