48 THE ENTOMOLOGIST* 



round. Marginal line acutely undulated." If this be considered 

 a sufficient description to supersede Guenee's proper characteriza- 

 tion of the genus, Hiibner's " Verzeichniss " genera have a better 

 claim to stand, inasmuch as the characters given by him are 

 frequently less general. Most moths have a more or less rounded 

 outer margin to the wings. 



Guenee's Alamis contains several genera, and it is evident, in 

 the absence of any distinct specification, that the species figured 

 by him {A. alhicincta) must be his type. The character given by 

 him — " AntennEe hardly pubescent, even in the males " — will 

 not apply to P. alhidentaria or to "Alamis " j^olioides, which have 

 fasciculate-ciliated antennae in the males ; the latter species also 

 differs from the European insect in having the antennae of this 

 sex denticulate-serrated, the little group of fine bristles being 

 emitted from the serrations ; its palpi also have the second 

 article broader and more densely scaled, and the third article 

 porrected and shorter than in P. albidentaria. This will, there- 

 fore, form the type of a new genus, which may be called 

 Synalamis. 



Alainis umbrina. 



Ala7nis umbrina, Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 4, n. 1321 (1852). 

 A. continua, Walker, Lep. Het. Suppl. 3, p. 877 (1865). 

 Var. A. albicincta, Guenee, Noct., I.e., n. 1322 (1852). 



India generally. In Coll. B. M. 



DuGAKiA, Walk. 



Alamis, Guen. Alamis d Homoptera, Walk. 



Dugajia glaucinans. 



? ? Alamis glaucinans $ , Guenee, Noct. iii. p. 6, n. 1326 (1852). 



3" ,2 A. ligilla, Guenee, I. c, n. 1327 (1852). 



3 A. mendax, Walker, Lep. Het. xiii. p. 1047, n. 3 (1857). 



? Homoptera infligens, Walker, /. c, p. 1063, n. 35 (1857). 



H. solita, Walker, I.e., n. 36 (1857). 



Dugaria eilipes. Walker, I.e., p. 1076, n. 1 (1857). 



Homoptera delineosa. Walker, I. e., xv. p. 1798 (1858). 



H. disjuncta, Walker, I. c, Suppl. 3, p. 885 (1865). 



Asia and Africa. In Coll. B. M. 



The genus Dugaria is distinguished by the woolly legs of the 

 male, and a thick silky patch on the under side of the secondaries 

 in that sex. A. glaucinans and disjuncta belong to the varietal 

 form of the typical species, having whitish bands on the primaries. 



(To be continued.) 



