180 NOCTDIDi. 



with a sliRht purplish tiiiRC and largely suffused with black ; a 

 broad diffused black fascia below the cell, some black suffusion 

 beyond the coll, postincdiai line entire, subterminal oblique fascia 

 and line ])r(uninent .ind difltiscd, the latter angled outwards at 

 vein 4 ; hind wing tinged with ])rown, the terminal area strongly 

 suffused with black. 



f/'if>. Cati; Colony, Calvinii Distr. (Alslon), 1 J, Uitcnhage 

 {Ddinstow),! J , f'lah.'imstowii (Miss (J. ^y^liU), 1 J. Exp.^d 38, 

 9 44 millira. 



Genus HOMONCOCNEMIS. nov. 



Type, //./or/«. 



Proboscis fully devolojx'cl : jialpi obliquely upturned, finnged witli long hair 

 in front ; frons smoutb ; eyes lurjore. rounded ; iinteunie of female almost 

 simple; liead and tiiorax clothed with bair and bair-like scales and wilhont 

 crests; fore tibiie with curved claw on outer side ; abdomen witli some rough 

 hair at base but without crests. Fore wing with the apex somewhat rounded, 

 the ternien nearly evenly curved ; veins 3 and h from near angle of cell ; G 

 from upper angle; from 10 anastomosing with S to form the areole ; 11 from 

 cell. Iling wing with veins ','>. 4 from angle of cell ; o obsolescent from middle 

 of discocellulars ; G, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with cell near base 

 only. 



2310. Homoncocnemis fortis. 



Ho)nohadcna fortis, Grote, Can. Ent. xii. \^. 257 (1880) ; Smith, Cat. Noct. 



N.Am. p.l6I. 

 Hanwhadena piciva, Grote, Can. Ent. xii. p. 257 (1880). 

 Agro/is vorax, Behr. Papilio, iv. p. '21 (1884) (larva) ; Smith, Papilio, iv. 

 ■p. 114. 



2 . Head and thorax dark brown with a golden gloss ; abdomen 

 pale golden brown. Fore wing dark brown with a purplish gloss ; 

 subbasal line represented by faint dark points below costa and cell ; 

 antemedial line represented by slight black points on the veins ; 

 stigmata absent ; postmedial line represented by a series of black 



Fig. 49. — Jlomotirm-iiemis for/is, $. 



points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, incurved below vein 4 

 and angled outwards on vein 1 ; subterminal lino absent ; a tino 

 pale lino at base of cilia. Hind wing white, the veins and marginal 

 areas suffused M-ith golden brown ; cilia white, brown at base; the 

 underside with postmedial series of short black streaks on the veins 

 showing through to uj)i)erside. 



Hah. U.S.A., Nevada, California, Ilavilah, 1 $ type picina. 

 K.cp. 4(i inillim. 



