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Genus ACANTHONYX, nov. 



Type A. marginalis. 



Proboscis fully developed; palpi short, oblique, the third joint 

 porrect ; frons rounded ; antennae of male bipectinate with moderate 

 branches, simple towards apex ; fore tibiae with long curved spine on 

 inner side at extremity ; mid and hind tibiae spined. Fore wing with 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 

 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hindwing 

 with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 from just above angle ; 6, 7 

 from upper angle. 



AcANTHONYX MAEGINALIS, Wlk. XV. 1700 (1858). 



Agrotis varians, WUgrn. Wien. Ent. Mon. vii. p. 147 (1863). 



,, marginifera, Wlk. xxxii. 706 (1865). 

 Hab. N'Gamiland (Lugard) ; Cape Colony (Dr. A. Smith). 

 Exp. $ 44, ? 48 mill. 



Genus HOMOPTEEA. 



Type. 

 Homoptera, Boisd. Icon. E. Anim. p. 522 



(1829) lunata. 



Cortyta, Wlk. xiii. 1076 (1857) ... canescens. 



A. Forewing with the reniform large, diamond-shaped comiMcata. 



B. Forewing with the reniform small, indistinct. 



a. Hindwing with the subterminal line arising from the apex and oblique, 

 a'. Forewing with the postmedial line angled outwards below eosta. 



a'. Ground colour reddish brown glaucinans. 



h-. Ground colour grey canescens. 



y. Forewing with the postmedial line inwardly oblique to 



costa atrifusa. 



b. Hindwing with the subterminal line curved and waved . . . • vetusta. 



(1) HOMOPTERA COMPLICATA, Butl. A.M.N.H. (5) V. p. 386 (1880). 

 Hab. Cape Colony, Knysna (Newdigate) ; Madagascar. Ex2J. 



66 mill. 



(2) HoMOPTERA GLAUCINANS, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 6 (1852). Hmpsn. 



111. Het. B.M. ix. pi. 165, £f. 1, 7, 15. Larva Fawcett. Trans. 



Z.S. XV. vi. p. 318, pi. 49, ff. 22, 23 (1901). 

 Alamis mendax, Wlk. xiii. 1047 (1857). 

 Dugaria cilipes, Wlk. xiii. 1076 (1857). 



