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D. Disk of thorax, black. \ ^' f- 1'^^^*^' ^Z"^' 



(4. R. mvoluta. Walk. 



DD. Disk of thorax not black. 



E. Wings with a white or glaucous marginal fascia. 



F. Keniform spot distinct. 5. H. minerea, Brury. 

 FF. Reniform spot obsolete. 6. H. edusa, Drury. 



EE. Wings without a white marginal fascia. 



G. Anterior wings without white bands. 7. H. Saundersii, 



Bethune. 

 GG. Anterior wings with two white bands. 8. H. albo- 

 fasciata, Bethune. 

 BBB. Wings dark cinereous. 9. H. duplicata, Bethtme. 

 AA. Size small. 



H. Wings ferruginous. 10. H. contracta, Walker. 



HH. Wings whitish cinereous. 11, H. herminioides, Walker, 



1. HoMOPTERA CALYCANTHATA, Smith. Gueu. Noct. iii. 15. 

 Walk, a B. M. Noct. xiii. 1054. 



Glossy coal-black ; cinereous beneath. Antennae brown. Tegulse 

 tipped with brownish. Wings deep glossy black, with a broad whitish 

 border on the exterior margin, thickly speckled with black and brown 

 scales. Anterior wings with the ordinary lines, fine, undulating, deep 

 velvety-black. E,eniform spot indistinctly margined with the same. 

 A paler costal spot adjoining the exterior side of the extra-basal line, 

 and another just before the elbowed line. The pale border forms two 

 deep well-defined sinuses on these wings, but is not crossed by a 

 shade in the middle, as in most of the other species. Posterior 

 wings, with the costa as well as the exterior margin, broadly paler ; 

 the remainder of the wing deep black, without markings. Under 

 side, with obscure lines and streaks, and a darker shade corresponding 

 to the black part of the wineis above. Length of the body, 6 in. ; 

 alar expansion, I "6 in. 



Hab. Cobourg, captured at sugar, in June. London, C. W. (Mr. 

 Saunders). U. S, 



The larva is thus described by M. Guenee : — Cinereous-grey, 

 clouded with whitish and blackish, with the usual lines blackish; 

 the sub-dorsal doubled, continuous, but only on the first three and 

 last seven segments ; the stigmatal surmounted by very oblique black 

 marks. A small ochre-coloured spot between the fourth and fifth 

 segments; these two, . and - also the second, third, and sixth, are 



