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NOCTXJID^. 



subterminal line white, dentate, defined on inner side by small 

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

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

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

 reddish brown. Hind wing white tinged with green towards 

 termen, a few dark scales at tornus ; cilia chequered white and 

 pale 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. 



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Genus BEACHIONYCHA. 



Type. 



5?-ac7jw?2_ycAa, Hiibn. Verz. p. 144 (1827) nuheculosa. 



Petasia, Stepb. 111. Brit,. Ent., Haust. ii. p. 31 (1829) sphinx. 



Asteroscopus, Boisd. Dup. Cat. Meth. p. 89 (1844) sphinx. 



Proboscis absent or aborted and small ; palpi porrect to just beyond frons 

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

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

 and thorax clothed with long thick hair ; the tegulte produced to a slight dorsal 

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

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

 wing rather long and narrow ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from 

 ujiper 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 stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. (Fetasia). Antennaj of male bipectinate to base ; proboscis absent. 



2342. Brachionycha sphinx. 



VhalcBua sphinx, Hiifn. BerL Mag. iii. p. 400 (1767); Esp. Schmett. iii. 



pi. 49. ff: 1-3; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 181. 

 Bomhyx cassinia, Schiff. Wien. Verz. p. 61 (1776) ; Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. 



p. 126 (1787); Hiibn. Bomb. i. ff. 5, 6; Don. Nat. Hist. Brit. Ins. xii. 



p. 4, pi. 397. f. 2 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. 216, pi. 1 14. f. 2 ; Stepb. 111. Brit. 



Ent., Haust. ii. p. 32. 



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

 palpi and frons reddish brown, dark streaks on vertex of head and 

 upper edge of tegula? and patagia ; tarsi ringed with brown: 

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



Fig. 57. — Brachionycha sphinx, ^ . \. 



or less strongly suffused and irrorated with dark brown, a sinuous 

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

 ,extremity ; a slight subbasal streak below costa ; antemedial line 



