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CERAPODA; BRACHIONYCHA. By Dr. M. Draudt. 
nigricula. 
strioligcra. 
aejyptiaca. 
linstowi. 
tcstacca. 
obscura. 
alpina. 
megala. 
eugrapho- 
mena. 
jezoensis. 
amurensis. 
syriaca. 
sa jana. 
different underside help to distinguish it. Forewings are darker but duller than in exacta. They are more 
suffused with brownish and the white postmedian band is indistinct. The subterminal line is clearer in conse¬ 
quence of the paler marginal area. The impure white hindwings have a wide dull blackish outer margin and 
they are not darker in basal area. From Uliassutai in Mongolia. 
0. nigricula Ev. (Vol. 3, p. 120, pi. 28 c). This species also cannot be recognised by the old illustration. 
We are giving a better one here (17 c). 
0. strioligera Led. (Vol. 3, p. 121, pi. 29 c). The same applies to this species and we are illustrating 
same afresh (17 d). 
20a. Genus: Cerapoda Smith. 
This Genus has hitherto only comprised 2 north american species, whilst now an egyptian species is 
added to it. Proboscis developed, the oblique palpi with long hairs on underside, frons smooth. Antennae of 
cJ serrate, ciliate. Thorax scaled, with tufts anteriorly and posteriorly. Abdomen with crest on first segment. 
Tarsi with long curved spurs on outer side of the two first joints. Wing contour narrow with somewhat pro¬ 
tracted apex. Neuration does not vary. 
Generic type: C. stylata Sm. from North America. 
C. aegyptiaca Joan. (17 d). Forewings pale ashy grey, almost white in subterminal area, yellowish 
red behind the reniform stigma and submedian, as well as in the stigmata. Transverse lines only very faintly 
indicated or quite absent. Altogether all markings are somewhat diffuse. The medium large stigmata have 
faintly darker centres. Before the more distinct yellowish subterminal line there are pointed dark sagittate 
marks, the marginal area beyond same is deeper ashy grey. Fringes are widely intersected by paler patches. 
Hindwings white. The larva is green with violet-red dorsal stripe. It feeds from January to March on Zilla 
myagroides and buries in the sand, hiding during the daytime. It pupates in a tough cocoon and the imagines 
emerge in November/December. From Cairo and Heliopolis. 
22. Genus: Brachionyclia Fk. 
B. sphinx Hufn. (Vol. 3, p. 121, pi. 29 g). The illustration is too brown, the species is generally much 
greyer. — ab. linstowi Strd. has subterminal line in dentations extending to margin and forming a white patch 
at anal angle. Outwardly the dentations are filled with black. Saxony. — ab. testacea }Hch. has a buff-yellowish 
ground colour instead of the white-grey. Subterminal line is retained and distinct. Berlin. — obscura Hirschke 
is a very dusky form from around Vienna. — alpina Seijers is a much larger and stronger race from the Dolo¬ 
mites. All markings, especially those of fore wings are bolder. Hindwings with patches in the interstices. - 
rnegala DM. which was described later and which is from the S. Tyrol, is probably the same. These are strik¬ 
ingly large grey specimens without the yellowish brown hue, with very dusky hindwings and often exceeding 
the largest nubeculosa specimens in size. 
B. nubeculosa Esp. (Vol. 3, p. 121, pi. 29 h). To be added to perfumosa Warr. as synonym: suffusa 
Klern. — eugraphomena Stdr. is a large robust race, dark grey, without brownish tone, with heavy and distinct 
black markings. From the Inn Valley. — jezoensis Mats, differs from type by an excurved black subbasal, 
dentate anterior transverse line with grey-white inner edge. The claviform stigma has a white dot at end, 
the inner marginal part of central area is heavily black. Orbicular stigma very small, reniform stigma very 
large. Between veins 2 and 3, 4 and 5 as well as 6 and 7 there is a black spot, that however does not ex¬ 
tend to margin. Hokkaido. — amurensis n. subsp. (17 d) is a smaller, more brownish form with distinctly longer 
and denser pectinations. I have a specimen before me from Vladivostock, now in the collection of Bang-Haas. 
B. syriaca Warr. (Vol. 3, p. 121, pi. 29 g). Osthelder states of the species, that the $ is more brightly 
marked, the colouring is more rich in contrast, subterminal line expands at anal angle forming a spot. Marash. 
B. sajana sp. n. (17 d). Only half as large as nubeculosa, immediately distinguishable by the margin 
that is not in the least undulate. Further by the distinctly continuous marginal line, which is especially distinct 
on hindwings and which replaces the separated marginal spots of the precedings species. Otherwise the 
colouration and arrangement of markings is very similar, but the scaling is a denser black with much less 
white. There is a long bold black basal streak which projects into the lower part of the elongate claviform 
stigma. Orbicular stigma is entirely absent. Reniform stigma is smaller and is placed, at right angles to costa. 
The black curved line is indistinct at lower edge. Transverse lines merely indicated by shades, the posterior 
line is much closer to margin. The black streaks on veins are absent, the sagittate marks before the margin 
are very prominent. Hindwings uniformly thinly scaled and blackish. The black cell spot is absent. Only 
1 $ from Mondy (Province of Irkutsk), East Sajan. Type in the collection of Bang-Haas. 
