Szekessy Vilmos (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 58. (Budapest 1966)

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fringe with small dark grey triangles, looking toward base, between termination of veins; a continuous black line before anal corner. Discal spot sharply defined, irregular in shape. Fringe spotted with grey. Underside of fore wing, from base to antemedian, respectively beyond antemedian in apical area, a homogeneous greyish black, with a white stripe (irrorated black) along termen. Costal zone black, either contiguously coalescent with greyish black basic colour of inner wing surface, or separated from this latter by a narrow, occasionally irregularly shaped stripe of lighter hue of marginal area. Black irroration on underside of hind wing more sparse than on upperside, but discal spot more marked. Fig. 5. A: Brachionycha syriaca WARKEN (Karadja Bey, Asia Minor); B: Brachionycha decipidae sp. n. (first two : Makkosbotyka ; third : Várgesztes) ; C : Brachionycha sphinx HUFN. (Felsőtárkány, Várgesztes, Répáshuta) Male genital organ : Valvae rather broad, apically slightly spatulate and expanding, medially constricted by one-fourth width. Base of pulvillus relatively wide, several times wider than high, hence of a low and flattened character. Sacculus resembling a short, wide, thick spine. Aedoeagus short, squat, medially constricted, cornuti rather wide, of equal length, constituting a common batch. Of the related species, Brachionycha syriaca WARREN stands nearest to the new taxon, but the former is considerably larger, stouter, its eyes smaller, and the length of the costa and the termen approximate more one another. The colour of the fore wing is paler, more indistinct and less contrasty. This refers, first of all, to the pattern, entirely missing from the inner field of the fore wing of syriaca, and only the beginning of the three transversal lines is discernible below the costa, their continuation entirely disappearing toward the dorsum. The marginal area of the two species is rather similar, but while the white subterminal line of syriaca is of a various strength, that of the new species is uniformly strong. In syriaca, the black lines touching both sides of the subterminal are often connected, but never in the new species. The basal line of syriaca is less fine, and 2—3 times wider; its hind wing more indistinctly dotted, the dots are finer, the marginal and discal spots