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22. Genus: Copitype limps. 



Differs from Oncocnemis in the frons having a slight rounded prominence; antennae of $ simply lamellate; 

 vestiture chiefly hairy: foretibia \s ith a long claw at extremity. Type Copitype pagodae Alph. 



C. pagodae Alph. Forewing pale grey brown, irrorated with fuscous; a black streak below base of cell; pagodae. 

 lines black, fairly distinct, the inner thrice angulated, the outer outcurved and wavy, followed by a blackish 

 streak on submedian fold: orbicular and reniform large, outlined in black, a dark blotch formed by median shade 

 between them: subterminal line pale, preceded by some dark dentate marks; hindwing fuscous grey. Kuku 

 Nor, Tibet. 



23. Genus: Bracliionyclia Hbn. 



Tongue aborted, minute: frons smooth, rounded; foretibia with long curved claw at extremity; vesti- 

 ture hairy: thorax and abdomen without crests; antennae of o bipectinate, with long branches throughout, 

 or with short thick branches decreasing to base; of $ subserrate. Larva stout, naked, thickened behind, with 

 a hump on segment 11: velvety green: resting with the fore part of the body obliquely raised, and the head 

 thrown black, as in Cerura and some Sphingidae; feeding on trees in the summer, and emerging either in 

 November or in March and April. Type Brachionycha nubeculosa Esp. 



Sect. I. Antennae of ^ with long pectinations from base to apex. 



B. sphinx Hufn. (= cassinea F.) (29 g). Forewing pale luteous grey, more or less strongly dusted with sphinx. 

 olive grey: a thick black streak from base below cell, with a finer streak above and beyond it, and another 

 beyond it below submedian fold; outer line marked by black vein dashes on a paler space; orbicular stigma flat- 

 tened, elongate, edged with black; reniform large irregularly 8-shaped, the lower half angled and reaching 

 below median vein: submarginal line pale, preceded by black wedgeshaped marks between veins and followed 

 by black streaks from termen in the intervals, the indentation on submedian fold more strongly marked ; veins 

 towards margin finely black; fringe chequered pale and dark grey; hindwing whitish, grey-speckled, the veins 

 darker: a dull grey cellspot, and marginal row of black lunules; the $ is darker throughout, more brownish 

 tinged. — Larva bright velvety green; dorsal and subdorsal lines chalk white, the latter commencing only at 

 segment 4; spiracular line yellowish white, with dark upper edge; face green with two yellow streaks; on elm, 

 oak. ash and various other trees. Mainly a N. European species, found in Britain, France, Germany, Austria, 

 Switzerland, N. Italy, Scandinavia, and S. Russia. 



B. syriaca spec. nov. (29 g). Smaller than sphinx, the forewing more uniformly grey; neither inner nor syriaca. 

 outer line indicated; the black streak from base below cell shorter and more slender; the orbicular elongate, 

 club-shaped, continued as a dark line towards base; reniform absent, in its place a biangulate median line; 

 the pale submarginal line narrow and simply curved, the black streaks on each side of it coalescing to form longer 

 marks: no black confluent shading before the indentation on submedian fold; fringe pale grey, unchequered; 

 hindwing more powdered with grey. 1 J in Tring Museum from Akbes, Asia Minor. 



Sect. II. Antennae of <$ wdth short stiff pectinations, serrate at base. 



B. nubeculosa Esp. (= centrolinea F., sphinx Hbn. nee Hufn.) (29 h). Forewing rufous grey, thickly nubeculosa. 

 speckled and in parts suffused with black; the veins black; inner line hardly marked; outer strongly lunulate- 

 dentate, followed by a paler line; claviform elongate, pointed, outlined in black, connected with base by a 

 thick black line : orbicular pale, black edged, very variable in size, sometimes only a dot, at others a large elongated 

 oval, placed near the reniform, which is large and pale, thickly outlined with black below the median; sub- 

 marginal line not marked except by difference of tint, the terminal area being pale grey with black dashes 

 in the intervals, preceded in the darker specimens by a broad blackish fuscous shade; black wedge-shaped mar- 

 ginal spots; fringe grey; hindwing grey densely powdered with brown; veins and cellspot dark, also some marginal 

 spots: — ab. grisescens Spul., from S.Urals and Amurland, is a pale grey form without the dark suffusion; on grisesccm. 

 the other hand ab. perfumosa ab. nov. (29 h), has the whole forewing, except the extreme terminal area and the per/umosa. 

 upper part of the reniform, suffused with blackish fuscous; but intermediate forms occur, and the $ is always 

 darker than the $. Occurs in Scotland, France, Germany, Austria, Hungary, Switzerland, Scandinavia, Russia; 

 also in the Ural Mts., in E. Siberia and Amurland. — Larva velvety green; dorsal stripe yellowish, often inter- 

 rupted and appearing as a point only on each segment, with yellow tubercles on each side; on the 3rd segment 

 a thick, yellow red-edged oblique streak, and another on each side of the hump on segment 11; spiracles 

 white, edged with brown; feeding on birch, elm, apple, and various trees. 



24. Genus: Dasypolia Hbn. 



Tongue aborted, minute: frons smooth; vestiture hairy; palpi obliquely porrect, hairy below,- terminal 

 segment short; antennae of q bipectinate, or serrate-fasciculate. Larva on Umbelliferae; feeding when first 



