. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. HOMONCOCNEMIS.âCERAPODA, 181 Larva. Bebi-ens, Papilio, iv. p. 21. Light brown or grey, emaciated, thin, ventral surface pale metallic greenish ; two longitudinal series of black points. Food- plant, Ash.âH. G. D. Genus CERAPODA. Cerapoda, Smith, Ti'ans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 68 (1894) Type. stylata. Proboscis fully developed; palpi oblique fringed with long hair in front ; frons smootli ; eyes lai'ge, rounded ; antennas of male serrate and fasciculate or moniliform ; head and thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the pro- and met


. Catalogue of Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths. HOMONCOCNEMIS.âCERAPODA, 181 Larva. Bebi-ens, Papilio, iv. p. 21. Light brown or grey, emaciated, thin, ventral surface pale metallic greenish ; two longitudinal series of black points. Food- plant, Ash.âH. G. D. Genus CERAPODA. Cerapoda, Smith, Ti'ans. Am. Ent. Soc. xxi. p. 68 (1894) Type. stylata. Proboscis fully developed; palpi oblique fringed with long hair in front ; frons smootli ; eyes lai'ge, rounded ; antennas of male serrate and fasciculate or moniliform ; head and thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the pro- and meta- thorax with slight speading crests ; tarsi with long curved claw-like spines on outerside of 1st two joints ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing rather narrow,'the apex somewhat produced, the termen obliquely curved; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper 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 from upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. Sect. I. Autennaj of male serrate and fasciculate; fore tibia with minute spine at extremity and evenly disposed claw-like spines on outer side of 1st joint of tarsus. 2311. Cerapoda oWita Oncocnemis ohlita, Grote, Bull. Geol. Geog. Surv. Terr. iii. p. 117 (1877); Smith, Cat. Noct. N. Am. p. 162. Head and thorax grey-white mixed with fuscous brown; frons with blackish bar; tegulce with slight blackish medial line; patagia with black line near upper edge; tarsi ringed with black towards extremity ; abdomen pale brownish ochreous slightly irrorated with fuscous, the crest at base blackish. Fore wing grey-white tinged with ochreous and irrorated with fuscous, the veins with slight blackish streaks ; a short white fascia in base of cell with fine dark. Fig. 50.â C'cr(ipod(( oblila, <Sâ \- streak throngh it; a fine black streak below the cell continuous with the lo


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