1898.] OF THE SUBFAMILY PYRAUSTINjE. 607 



Genus 5. Homophysa. 



Homo])hysa Guen, Delt. & P_yr. p. 364 (1854). 



Palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching vertex of head, tufts 

 of hair at extremity of 1st and 2nd joints ; the 3rd well developed 

 and acuminate ; njaxillary palpi long and filiform ; antennae 

 of male thickened and flattened ; tibiae with the outer spurs two- 

 thirds length of inner. Eore wiug with vein 3 from near angle 

 of cell; 7 straight and well separated from 8 and 9; 10, 11 

 stalked. Hiud wing with the median nervure slightly pectinated 

 above ; veins 4, 5 approximated for a short distance ; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle, 7 anastomosing with 8. 



Fig. 5. 



Homophysa glaphyralis, (^ . f. 



Type. (1) Homophysa glaphyralis Guen. Delt. & Pyr. p. 366 ; Led. 

 Wien. Ent. Mon. 1863, pi. 18. f. 14. U.S.A. 



fScojiula stipataJis Wlk. xxxiv. 1460. 

 Homophysa albolineata Grote, Can. Ent. x. p. 28. 



(2) Homophysa sesquisteialis Hiihn. Zutr. ii. 29, 185. ff. 369, 

 370. U.S.A. ; Honduras. 



fZebronia dimotalis Wlk. xxxiv. 1346. 



(3)tHoMorHYSA EENiouLALis Zell. Verh. z.-b. Ver. Wien, 1872, 

 p. 526. U.S.A. 



(4) Homophysa ikvisalis Guen. Delt. & Pyr. p. 361. 



U.S.A. ; Cayenne, 

 t „ lentiflualis Zell. Verh. z.-b.Ver. Wien, 1872, p. 525. 



(5)+HOMOPHYSA DECISA Wlk. XXXV. 1963. 



Jamaica ; Brazil ; Argentina. 



(6) Homophysa pulminalis Led. Wien. Ent. Mon. 1863, p. 455, 

 pi. 18. f. 13. U.S.A. 



(7)tHoMOPHYSA polycyma, n. sp. (Plate XLIX. fig. 4.) 



d . Head and thorax bright yellow, mixed with white ; abdomen 

 ochreous, with fine white segmental lines. Fore wing orange- 

 yellow, with six strongly dentate white transverse lines ; the area 

 from middle to near termen white suffused with brown, except 

 towards costa ; a terminal white line. Hind wiug whita, with 

 indistinct curved postmedial line. 



