408 On Lepido^tera from Rodnguez. 



extremity straight, followed by a series of black points ; an 

 ii-regular dusky discal band, zigzag externally ; a marginal 

 series of black dots ; the margin indicated by a clay-colom*ed 

 line ; fringe shining brown, darker at base : secondaries 

 shining pale brown, with deeper-colom-ed outer border ; mar- 

 ginal characters and fringe as in primaries : body pale olive- 

 brown, abdomen greyish ; palpi black, with whity-brown 

 tips : wings below shining brownish, a dusky spot on the 

 discocellulars ; an oblique black costal litura in primaries, fol- 

 lowed by a continuous discal series of black dots upon the 

 nervures ; an ochraceous marginal line and a marginal series 

 of black dots ; secondaries paler than primaries : body shining 

 whitish. Expanse of wings 1 inch. 

 (Coll. by Gulliver.) 



Allied to C. conformis. 



Genus DiOMEA. 

 Diomea hryopMloideSj n. sp. 



Primaries rounded at apex, smoky brown ; external area 

 darker, crossed by a blackish tapering band bounded externally 

 by whitish dots ; several costal sjDOts of the same colour : 

 secondaries pale brown ; margin, veins, and a spot on the 

 discocellulars dusky : body smoky brown, abdomen pale; palpi 

 whitish above, blackish below ; primaries below paler than 

 above, markings indistinct, a marginal series of black dots ; 

 secondaries sordid white ; costal area irrorated with brown ; 

 basal area ochraceous ; a black discocellular spot ; two irre- 

 gular discal brown lines ; outer border grey ; a marginal series 

 of black dots ; legs spotted with ochraceous ; coxse tufted : 

 body below whitisli varied with brown, sides of pectus ochra- 

 ceous. Expanse of wings 11 lines. 



(Coll. by GulHver.) 



Genus HOMOPTERA. 

 Homopteva turhida^ n. sp. 



Primaries cinereous, crossed by undulating brown lines ; 

 a blackish line at the base, followed by a dark oblique brown 

 band, the outer edge of which is straight, and bounded towards 

 costa by a white streak ; reniform spot ill-defined, confounded 

 with a brown costal patch crossed by pale lines ; the latter 

 bounded externally by an abbreviated narrow white streak ; 

 postmedian line slender, black, sinuated at its upper end, 

 regularly undulated from the first median to the inner margin ; 

 outer border broadly grey ; a submarginal black line, a mar- 

 ginal series of yellowish spots ; margin indicated by a reddish 



