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golden-olive suffused with black, with a large white patch on the 

 basal area and white postmedial band ; indistinct subbasal and 

 antemedial waved black lines, interrupted by the white patch ; the 

 reniform ill-defined and blackish ; a series of blackish lunules, 

 irrorated with white beyond the postmedial white band ; a submar- 

 ginal series of black and white lunules. Hind wing orange-yellow ; 

 a sinuous postmedial black line ; the outer area black, with a white 

 streak at anal angle. 



Hab. Sikhim. Exp. 56 millim. 



B. (Coptoplax).' Male with the apex of fore wing truncate, the trun- 

 cate margin being bent over on the upper surface of tJie wing ; 

 the veins towards apex distorted. 



2442. Polydesma lindsayi, Hmpsn. III. Het. viii, p. 127, pi. 154, fig. 17. 



c? . Differs from commutanda in being much darker ; the abdomen 

 dark brown. Fore wing without white markings ; the area between 

 the subbasal and antemedial lines blackish, irrorated with white. 

 Hab. Mlgiris. Exp. 54 millim. 



Genus HOMOPTERA. 



Homoptera, Boisd. Icon. Reg. Anim. p. 522 (1829). 

 Alarms, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 3 (1852). 

 Dugaria, Wlk. Cat. xiii, p. 1075 (1857). 

 Mcepa, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 915 (1865). 



Type, H. lunata, Drury, from N. America. 



Eange. Nearctic, Neotropical, Ethiopian, Oriental, and Australian 

 regions. 



Palpi with the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head, the 3rd rather 

 short ; antennae of male with short fasciculate cilia ; metathorax 

 with a slight tuft ; abdomen with prominent dorsal tufts ; tibia of 

 male heavily clothed with hair ; the mid tibia3 spined. 



La-rvce with four pairs of abdominal prolegs, the first two pairs 

 aborted or rudimentary. 



SECT. I. (Alamis). Male with the greater part of the underside 

 of fore and hind wings clothed with silky hair. 



2443. Homoptera umbrina, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 4; C. fy S. no. 2455. 

 Alamis albicincta, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 4. 



Alamis hypophsea, Guen. Noct. iii, p. 4 ; C. 8f S. no. 2453. 

 Alamis continua, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 877 ; Forsayeth, Trans. Ent. 



Soc. 1884, p. 412, pi. 15, fig. 9 (larva) ; C. $ & no. 2451. 

 Homoptera detersa, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 888 ; C. fy S. no. 2461. 

 Homoptera plumipes, Wlk. Cat. xxxiii, p. 888 ; C. fy S. no. 2463. 

 Alamis yendola, Sivinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1891, p. 150. 



Dark red-brown. Fore wing with sinuous subbasal and ante- 

 medial black lines and numerous indistinct waved reddish lines on 

 basal half of wing ; a sinuous postmedial black line, excurved beyond 

 cell and slightly angled at veins 4 and 6, with an irregular fuscous 

 black band beyond it; an indistinct irregular fuscous submarginal 



