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Genus HOM^A. 

 Homma, Giieii. Noct. iii. p. 206 (1852) 



Type. 



clathrum. 



Proboscis fully developecl ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint hardly reaching 

 to vertex of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd long and somewhat acuminate 

 at tip ; frons smooth, with tuft of hair above ; eyes large, round ; antennse of 

 male ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed and without crests ; 

 tibite of male and the hind tarsi above typically fringed with long hair, the 

 fore and hind tibire not spined ; abdomen smoothly scaled and without crests. 

 Fore wing with the apex rounded ; the termen evenly curved, crenulate ; 

 veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anasto- 

 mosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with the termen 

 crenulate ; the cell about one-thii'd length of wing ; veins 3, 4 from angle ; 

 6 fully developed from above angle ; 6, 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing 

 with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Tibiae of male, the basal joints of fore tarsi, and the hind tarsi above 

 fringed with long hair. 



7494. Hornsea clathrum. 



Homma clathrum, Guen. Noct. iii. p. 207 (1852); Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. 

 p. 551. 



Head and thorax blackish brown mixed with whit« ; palpi white, 

 the 3rd joint blackish except at extremity; frons with black bar, 

 and a black bar between antennfe ; tegulae with black bands near 

 base and at tips ; pectus and legs white tinged with brown ; 

 abdomen ochreous brown with white band at base and slight 

 whitish segmental lines, the ventral surface white tinged with 



Fig. 82. — Homaa clathrum, J 



brown. Fore wing ochreous brown largely suffused with black, 

 the veins streaked with white to the postmedial line ; subbasal 

 white striae from costa and cell defined on each side by black ; 

 antemedial line white defined on each side by black, inwardly 



