EMAEGIMJA. BEYOLYMXTA. 119 



black point below costa, the antemedial Hue by points below costa 

 and above inner margin ; the outer edge of orbicular and inner 

 edge of reniform defined by slight blackish lines, the stigmata 

 otherwise undefined ; postmedial line black, minutely waved, 

 excurved below costa and at middle, then incurved, the blue-grey 

 extending to its inner side below costa ; a blue-grey line on termen 

 at the excision below apex. Hind wing pure white ; the underside 

 with curved blackish postmedial line from below costa to vein 4. 



Hub. U.S.A., Colorado desert, 1 5 , California, Walters Station. 

 Eaujp. 24 millim. 



Genus BRYOLYMNIA, nov. 



Type, B. roma. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, slender, the 2nd joint reaching 

 about to middle of frons and moderately fringed with hair, the 3rd moderate ; 

 fYons with slight rounded prominence with corneous plate below it ; eyes large, 

 rounded ; antenna of male ciliated ; thorax clothed with hair and scales mixed, 

 the prothorax without crest, the metathorax with decumbent crest ; tibiae 

 moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only and 

 lateral fringes of hair. Fore wing rather narrow, the apex rounded, the termen 

 evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from 

 upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the small areole ; 11 

 from cell. Hind wing witli veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from 

 middle of discocellulars ; 6,7 from upper angle or .stalked; 8 anastomosing 

 with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Fore wing of male with brush of long hair on underside from near 

 base of inner area ; hind wing with veins 6, 7 stalked. 



4452. Bryolymnia fioccifera. 



Grammophora floccifera, Moschl. Abh. Senck. Ges. xiv. p. 41, f. 7 (1886). 



Head white ; palpi black except at tips ; antennse black except 

 basal joint ; teguke orange fulvous ; thorax white and emerald-green, 

 the pro- and metathorax with black bands ; pectus and legs blackish, 

 fore tibiae with white patches, the spurs and tarsi ringed with white ; 

 abdomen fuscous grey, the basal crest black, the anal tuft rufous, 



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Fig. 35. — Bryolymnia floccifera, J . \. 



1 he ventral surface black. Fore wing emerald-green with patches 

 of white on costa, in and below cell and beyond postmedial and 

 subterminal lines ; the costa with wedge-shaped black subbasal, 

 antemedial, medial and postmedial spots followed by a small quadrate 



