LEPIDOPTERA HETEROCERA. 1035 



Genus 30. BRACHIONYCHA. 



Corpus sat robustum. Proboscis non conspicua. Palpi por- 

 recti, validi, pilosi, caput non superantes ; articulus 3us minutus, 

 conicus. Antennas thorace multo longiores. Abdomen alas posticas 

 triente superans. Pedes validi ; tibiae posticae calcaribus quatuor 

 longiusculis. Alae sat lata? ; anticae apud costam reetae, apice rotun- 

 datae, margine exteriere obliquo. Alas. — Antenna? mediocriter pec- 

 tinatae. Fcem. — Antenna? simplices, vix serratae. 



Bracbionycba, H'ubn. Verz. Schmett. 144. 

 Petasia, Steph. III. Brit. Ent. Hanst. ii. 31. 

 Bombyx, p., Wien. Verz. ; H'ubn. ; Haw. ; Esp. 

 Xylina, p., Treit. 

 Brachiomyx, Meig. 

 Asteroscopus. Boisd. ; Duponch. 



Body moderately stout. Proboscis not visible. Palpi stout, 

 pilose, porrect, extending as far as the head ; third joint minute, ob- 

 tuse. Antenna? much longer than the thorax. Abdomen extending 

 for about one-third of its length beyond the hind wings. Legs 

 stout ; hind tibiae with four rather long spurs. Wings moderately 

 broad. Fore wings straight in front, rounded at the tips, oblique 

 along the exterior border ; interior angle much rounded ; discal 

 areolet intersected by a slight secondary vein; first, second and 

 third iuferior veins near together at the base ; fourth rather re- 

 mote. Male. — Antennae moderately pectinated. Female. — Antennae 

 simple, hardly serrated. 



1. Brachionycha cassinea. 



Alee cinerece ; anticce lineolis sparsis atris ; postiece mavgine fusco 

 punctato. 



, Roes. Ins. iii. pi. 40. 



Bombyx cassinea, Fabr, Mant. Ins.W. 126, 148. Ent. Syst. iii. 1, 



460, 164. Gmel. ed. Syst. Nat. \. 5, 2423, 529. Wien. Verz. 



61, P. 1. Borkh. Schmett. iii. 442, 169. H'ubn. Bomb. 2, f. 76. 

 Bombyx Sphinx, Esp. Schmett. Bomb. iii. pi. 49, f. 1 — : 3. 

 Pbalaena-Bombvx cassinea, Don. Nat. Hist. Brit. Ins. xii.4, pi. 397, 



f. 2. 

 Bombyx cassineus, Haw. Lep. Brit. 100. 

 Xylina cassinea, Treit. Schmett. von Eur. v. 3, 53, 21. Duponchel, 



Lep. de France, vii. pi. 114, f. 2. 

 Brachionyx cassinea, Meig. Handb. 176, 74 ; Syst. Beschr. Eur. 



Schmett. iii. 178, 1, pi. 109, f. 7. 



