HOMONCOCNEMIS. CEEA POBA . 



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Larva. Behi-ens, 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. 

 Carapoda, 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 ; antennas of male serrate and fasciculate or 

 moniliform ; head and thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the pro- and meta- 

 thorax with slight speading crests ; tarsi with long curved 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 with 8 to form the areole ; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 

 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from 

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



Sect. I. Antennte 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 oblita 



Oncocnemis ohlita, 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 ; tegulse 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-wliite 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. — Cercqjoda oUiia, S ■ \- . 



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 confluentwith ashort curved 

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

 slight upward tooth on cliscocellulars forming part of the small ver}- 

 indistinct reniform and defined by black ; the postmedial area 



