202 XOCTCIDiE. 



sulitorniiiial liiK- while, clciitatc. (Ufiiu-d on inner sick' I'V small 

 (lontati- black marks and by a black bar from costa, angled out- 

 wards at vein 7 and incurved below vein 3, a reddish-brown patch 

 from it to termen above tornus; cilia checiucred whitish and dark 

 reddish brown. Hind wing white tinged with green towards 

 termen, a tew dark scales at tornus : cilia che(]uercd white and 

 ])alc green, with some brown points at tips and elongate mark below 

 vein 1 ; the underside with brown spot on middle of costa and 

 faint traces of postmedial line. 



Uah. U.S.A., Arizona, Huachuca Mts., 1 $ . Exp. 44 millim. 



Genus BRACHIONYCHA. 



Brachiont/cha, l\\\hn.yerz.\». 144 (ISliT) nuhccuhsa. 



Pctania, isteph. 111. Uril. Eiit., Haiist. ii. p. 31 (ISl'O) gphhur. 



Aftcroxopm, lioisd. Dup. Cat. Meth. p. 81t (1844) fphiux. 



Proboscis absent or aborted and small ; palpi jron-ect to just beyond frons 

 and clothed with long hair; frons siiiootli, rounded; eyes large, rounded ; 

 antenna: of male bipectinate and with a large tuft of hair on basal joint ; bead 

 and thorax clothed with long thick hair ; the teguhu produced to a sligiit dorsjd 

 ridge, the thorax without distinct crests; fore tibia with long curved claw at 

 extremity; abdomen clothed with long rough hair and without crests. Fore 

 w ing rather long and narrow ; veins 3 and o from near angle of cell ; 6 from 

 ujiper angle ; 'J from lU anastomosing with 8 to forn» the areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with Aeins '6, 4 from angle of cell; T) obsolescent from middle of 

 discocellulars ; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near buso only. 



Sect. I. IPetasia). Antenna of male bipectinate to base ; proboscis absent. 

 2342. Brachiouycha sphinx. 



I'haltma sphinx, Hiifn. Berl. Mag. iii. p. 400 (1767); Esp. Schmett. iii. 



pl.4i). «■. 1-3; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. ISl. 

 Bvml>i/x cu»fiiiia, ^^chill'. Wicn. Verz. ]). (U (1776); Fabr. Mnnt. Ins. ii. 



p. il-'C) (1787); Hiibn. Bomb. i. ff. .'.. 15; Don. Nat. Hist. Brit. Ins. xii. 



p. 4, pi. 3'.>7. f. 2 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. liKl, pi. 1 14. f. Ii ; ."^tepli. 111. Brit. 



Ent., Haust. ii. p. 32. 



Head and thorax grey-white mixed with dark brown ; sides of 

 j.alpi and frons reddish brown, dark streaks on vertex of head and 

 upper edge of teguljc and patagia ; tarsi ringed with brown : 

 abdomen ochreous or dark brown. Fore wing grey-whito more 



Fig. r)7. — llrachionycha sphinx, cT. 1- 



or less strongly suft'used and irrorated witli dark brown, a sinuous 

 black streak below base of cell, with a short streak above its 

 extremity ; a slight subbasal streak below costa ; antemodial lino 



