HOMONCOCNEMIS. — CERAPODA. 



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Larva. Bebrens, Papilio, iv. p. 21. 



Light brown or grey, emaciated, thin, ventral surface pale 

 metallic greenish ; two longitudinal series of black points. Food- 

 plant, Ash. — H. G. D. 



Genus CERAPODA. 

 Cerapoda, Smith, Trans. Am. Ent, Soc. xxi. p. 68 (1894) 



Type. 



stylata. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi oblique fringed with long hair in front ; 

 frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; antenna of male serrate and fasciculate or 

 monihform ; head and th irax clothed chiefly with scales, the pro- and nieta- 

 thorax with slight speading crests ; tarsi with long cui'ved claw-like spines on 

 outerside of 1st two joints ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore 

 wing rather narrow,' the apex somewhat produced, the termen obliquely curved; 

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

 anastomosing witli 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 

 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulai's ; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Antennae of male serrate and fasciculate ; fore tibia with minute 

 spine at extremity and evenly disposed claw-like spines on outer side 

 of 1st joint of tarsus. 



2311. Cerapoda oWita 



Oncocnemis oblita, Grote, Bull. Geol. Geog. Surv. Terr. iii. p. 117 (1877) ; 

 Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 162. 



Head and thorax grey-white mixed with fuscous brown ; frons 

 with blackish bar ; teguloe with slight blackish medial line ; patagia 

 with black line near upper edge ; tarsi ringed with black towards 

 extremity ; abdomen pale brownish ochreous slightly irrorated with 

 fuscous, the crest at base blackish. Fore wing grey-white tinged 

 with ochreous and irrorated with fuscous, the veins with slight 

 blackish streaks ; a short white fascia in base of cell with fine dark 



Fig. 50. — Ccrufodo obi if a, cJ. 



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streak through it ; a fine black streak below the cell continuous 

 with the lower edge of claviform, which is slightly defined by black, 

 elongate and acute at extremity ; ante- and postmedial line absent ; 

 orbicular with brownish centre and white annulus defined by black, 

 elongate and acute at extremities, nearly confluent with ashort curved 

 white streak on extremity of median nervure, emitting from middle a 

 slight upward tooth on discoceUulars forming part of the small very 

 indistinct reniform and defined by black ; the postmedial area 



