﻿LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1061 



19. HOMOPTERA TERMINALIS. 



Mas. Obscure cinei'eo-fusca, nigro conspersa ; palporum articulus 

 2us So quadruplo lorigior ; abdomen apice fasciculatum ; 

 pedes sat graciles, vix pilosi ; alee purpurascentes, lineis trans- 

 versis obliquis widulatis, duabus aut tribus nigris magis con- 

 spicuis^ fascia submarginali fusca extus pallido marginata^ 

 tinea marginali nigra undulata; anticcs gutta apicali nigra, 

 lituris costalibus punctisque marginalibus pallidis. 



Male, Dark cinereuus-browD, speckled with black. Third 

 joint of the palpi not more than one-fourth of the length of the 

 second. Abdomen thickly tiified at the tip. Legs rather slender, 

 hardly pilose. Wings with a purplish tinge, and with the usual 

 transverse oblique undulating lines, among which two or three are 

 black and more conspicuous than the others ; subinarginal band 

 brown, beyond the outermost black band, and with a pale exterior 

 border; marginal line black, undulating, with two slight corres- 

 ponding brown lines between it and the ciliae. Fore wings with a 

 black apical dot, with pale marks along the costa, and with a minute 

 pale dot on each lunule of the marginal line. Length of the body 

 5 lines ; of the wings 12 lines. 



a. St. Domingo. From Mr. Tweedie's collection. 



20. HoMOPTERA DIRE OTA. 



Foem. Ferruginea ; caput nigrum; palporum articulus Sits '2i 

 dimidio multo longior ; aloe cupreo tinctce, ex parte ckalybeo' 

 nigrce, linea submarginali undulata cervina ; anticce ex parte 

 cervince^ litura discali pallide Jiava, linea exteriore nigra^ 

 lineis tribus interioribus liturisque costalibus nigricantibus ; 

 posticce lineis intenoribus subobsoletis, linea exteriore valde 

 undulata. 



Female. Ferruginous. Head and palpi black. Third joint 

 of the palpi much more than half the length of the second. Wings 

 with a cupreous tinge, partly chalybeous-black ; submarginal line 

 undulating, fawn-colour, incomplete in the fore wings. Fore wings 

 partly fawn-colour, and with a pale yellow discal mark between the 

 irregular black exterior line and the three interior blackish lines, of 

 which two are approximate and parallel and broader than the 

 third ; some costal blackish marks in the fawn-coloured part. Hind 

 wings with the interior lines almost obsolete; the exterior black 



