. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 202 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
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 202 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. Hah. , Arizona, Huachuca Mts., 1 $ . Exj). 44 millim. 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
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