40 Mr. A. G. Butler on the 



sandv-brown, with bluck collar ; wings below sandj- 

 whitish, with discal blackish stripe and black marginal 

 spots ; primaries clouded with grey ; secondaries with 

 black discocellular spot : expanse of wings 1 inch 5 lines. 

 Manaos, 29th August, 1874. 



Allied to P. delinquens. 



Family HOMOPTEEIDiE. 

 HOMOPTERA, Boisduval. 



52. Homoptera (?) zonata. 



Homoptera zonata, Walker, Lep. Het. Suppl. iii. 

 p. 878 (1865). 

 Mouth of Rio Jutahi, 18th January, 1875. 



This species seems more like a Stimmia than a 

 Homoptera. 



53. Homoptera (?) gyrochila, n. sp. 

 Fuliginous-brown ; primaries tinted to the middle with 



lilacine ; crossed by three very irregular dusky Hues, the 

 first near the base, the second almost central, interrupted 

 by a large quadrate blackish spot at the end of the cell, 

 the third hmulate, interrupted (with pale outer margin), 

 limiting the external border ; two black dots in the cell 

 and a marginal series ; fi-inge dark grey ; primaries below 

 greyish-brown, the costal and outer borders irrorated with 

 sandy-yellowish ; two blackish costal dashes succeeded by 

 sandy-yellow spots ; secondaries whitish, densely speckled 

 with greyish-brown, the disc crossed by two nearly parallel 

 dusky irregular sti'ipes; a blackish discocellular spot; body 

 sandy-yellowish : expanse of wings 1 1 lines. 



Rio Javary, 7th December, 1874. 



Allied to " Homoptera''^ quadrisignata, but I do not 

 feel quite satisfied that this species is rightly located in 

 Homoptera. 



54. Homoptera Trailii, n. sp. 



Fuliginous - brown ; wings with paler outer border 

 traversed by a submarginal series of black-edged Avhite 

 dots, and limited internally by a black undulated line, 

 which is also triundate on each wing : fringe dark grey, 

 ■\\'\i\\ a pale basal line ; primaries clouded and spotted with 

 pale brown and blackish ; the central area limited on 



