BRTOMIMA. 393 



orbicular with dark centre and undefined whitish annulus, round ; 

 reniform gTe_y, undefined, with dark spot in lower part; an indistinct 

 waved medial line ; postmedial line black defined by grey on outer 

 side, bent outwards below costa, then dentate, incurved below vein 

 4, some white points beyond it on costa ; subterrainal line grey 

 slightly defined by blackish suffusion on inner side, angled outwards 

 below veins 7 and 4, then oblique ; ciHa ochreous white mixed with 

 fuscous and with a dark line through them. Hind wing ochreous- 

 whito suffused and thickly irrorated with brown, the terminal area 

 broadly fuscous brown ; a dcirk discoidal spot and indistinct curved 

 postmedial line ; cilia whitish with a dark line near base ; the 

 underside white thickly irrorated with lirown, the terminal area 

 suffused with fuscous, a black discoidal lunule and sinuous post- 

 medial line. 



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 28 millim. 



2577. Bryomima carducha. 



Brijomima carducha, Staud. Ii-is, xii. p. 357, pi. 6. f. 9 (1899) ; id. Cat. 

 Lep. pal. p. 167. 



Head and thorax clothed with whitish, brown and black hairs 

 and scales ; tarsi whitish banded with black ; abdomen whitish, 

 tinged with brown and irrorated with fuscous. Fore wing greyish 

 ochreous thickly irrorated with black, the medial area darker; sub- 

 basal line represented by two black spots on costa ; antemedial line 



Fig. 130. — Bryomima carducha, (^ . f. 



very indistinct, defined by pale colour on each side, minutely waved, 

 and almost erect ; claviform small, obscurely defined by black ; 

 orbicular and reniform ochreous white defined by black and with 

 black centres, the former small, round ; medial line represented by 

 a blackish spot on costa ; postmedial line indistinct, bent outwards 

 below costa, then dentate, excurved to vein 4, then oblique, a series of 

 blackish spots with whitish stria3 between them beyond it on costa ; 

 subterminal line only represented by a blackish bar from costa ; a 

 series of obscure dark spots before termen on which is a series of 

 slight black strife ; cilia ochreous intersected with fuscous. Hind 

 wing fuscous, the basal and inner areas pale, irrorated and partly 

 suffused with fuscous ; dark spots on inner margin and termen near 

 tornus ; cilia white tinged with ochreous at base: the underside white 

 slightly irrorated with fuscous, the costal area tinged with ochreous, 

 the terminal area darker, a curved rather diffused postmedial line. 



Hab. Syria, Mardin ; Mesopotamia, 1 J ? 1 ? • E.V2). 28-30 

 millim. 



