. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 202 SOCTCIDiE. suhtorniiiinl line wliiU', dentate, (kTinefl on inner side by small dentate Mack marks and by n bhick bar from costa, angled out- wards at vein 7 and incurved below vein '3, a reddish-brown patch from it to tcrmcu above tornus; cilia ehe(iucred whitish and dark reddish brown. Hind wing white tiiifjed with green towards termen, a few dark scales at tornus : cilia cheu/cha,U\\hn.\ p. 114(l^l;7» 7iubcculosa. , bteph. 111. Iti-ii. Ent., Ilaiist. ii. p. 31 (1811)) sphinx. Aftrroscopiit; Boisd. Diip. Cat.
. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. 202 SOCTCIDiE. suhtorniiiinl line wliiU', dentate, (kTinefl on inner side by small dentate Mack marks and by n bhick bar from costa, angled out- wards at vein 7 and incurved below vein '3, a reddish-brown patch from it to tcrmcu above tornus; cilia ehe(iucred whitish and dark reddish brown. Hind wing white tiiifjed with green towards termen, a few dark scales at tornus : cilia cheu/cha,U\\hn.\ p. 114(l^l;7» 7iubcculosa. , bteph. 111. Iti-ii. Ent., Ilaiist. ii. p. 31 (1811)) sphinx. Aftrroscopiit; Boisd. Diip. Cat. Mctli. p. 81» (1844) fp/iinx. Proboscis absent or aborted and small; palpi porrect to just beyond frons and clothed with long hair; frons suiooth, rounded; eves large, rounded ; antenna: of male bipectinate and with a large tuft of hair on basal joint ; head and thorax clothed with long thick hair ; the feguhi; produced to a slight dorsal ridge, the thorax without distinct crests; fore tibia witli long curved claw at extremity; abdomen clothed with long rough hair and without crests. Fore wing rather long and narrow ; veins 3 and ."> from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle ; 1) from lUamislomosing with 8 to form the areole ; 11 fmm cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; f) obsolescent from middle of discocellulars; 6, 7 stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near biiso only. Sect. I. (Petasia). Antennrf of male bipectinate to base ; proboscis absent. 2342. Brachionycha sphinx. I'halaiia sphinx, Iliifn. Berl. ilag. iii. p. 100 1,1707); EqD. Schmett. iii. pi. 49. fl'. 1-3; Cat. Lep. pal. p. 181. Bomhi/x casfinia, SchifT. Wicn. Verz. p. fil (1776); Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. p. i2() (1787); Iliibn. l?omb. i. ff. .^ 0; Don. Kat. Hist. Brit. lus. xii. p. 4, pi. .3'.t7. f. 2; Dup. Lep. Fr. vii. p. lild. pi. 114. f. Ii; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Ilaust. ii. p. 32. Head and thorax grey-white mixed with dark brown ; sides of palpi and frons reddish brown, dark
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