44 HAUSTELLATA. — LEPIDOPTERA. 



Genus CXXIV.— Bryophila, Ochsenheimer. 



Palpi porrected obliquely, rather long, slender, subclavate; the two basal joints 

 clothed with compact, rather stout scales; the terminal joint exposed, elongate, 

 acute; basal joint about as long as the terminal, slightly bent, and slender; 

 second one-half as long again as the basal, a little curved near the base; 

 terminal very slender, rather acute : maxillae moderate. Antennae moderate, 

 rather slender, basal joint incrassated, pubescent within in the males, simple 

 in the females : head small, with short compact scales on the forehead ; ei/es 

 large, globose, naked : thorax rather slender, not crested : abdomen slender, 

 carinated, and sUghtly tufted down the back, with a small tuft at the apex in 

 the males, acute in the females : wings slightly deflexed during repose ; ante- 

 rior broad, elongate, triangidar, entire : posterior rather ample. Larva slightly 

 pilose. Pupa folliculated. 



Bryophila bears considerable resemblance to the Diphtherse in 

 the form of its wings and the slenderness of its trunk and abdomen : 

 but its smaller size, dissimilar palpi, — which, when denuded, are 

 extremely slender, with the articulations nearly of an uniform thick- 

 ness, excepting the apical one, which is rather more slender, — and 

 general habit, sufficiently distinguish it from the insects of that 

 genus. 



Sp. 1. glandifera. Alis anticis viridibus, lituris strigisque undatis nigris albo 

 adnatis, casta nigra punctata. (Exp. alar. 11 — 14 lin.) 



No. glandifera. Wien. V. — Br. glandifera. Steph. Catal. pt. ii. p. 93. No. 6291. 

 —Ph. No. Lichenes. Don. vii. pi 223. f. 3. 



Head and thorax grayish-green, the latter with a few black marks, which are 

 sometimes obsolete : anterior wings of a pale green, with various irregular 

 black lines and strigae, more or less bordered with white ; costa spotted with 

 black ; stigmata rather obsolete, anterior placed in an oblique fuscous patch, 

 posterior more distinct, subcordate, pale fuscous ; behind this is a bent sub- 

 moniliform white striga, narrowly bordered interiorly with white, and exte- 

 riorly with a fuscous or greenish fascia, between which and the posterior margin 

 is a triarcuated black striga, and on the hinder margin itself a row of fuscous 

 spots ; ciha whitish, with fuscous spots : posterior wings fuscous-ash, palest at 

 the base ; cilia white. 



An extremely variable insect : sometimes nearly white, at others of a rufescent 

 or hoary tinge, with the markings more or less obsolete, or confluent : posterior 

 wings often with a narrow whitish striga behind the middle. Amongst the 

 varieties which I possess are some which appear to belong to the Noctua Par 

 of Hiibner. 



Caterpillar dirty ochraceous-yellow, with black spots, and a whitish or gray 

 dorsal line, with a brown head : it feeds on the Lichen saxatiHs :— the imago 

 is produced towards the end of June, and continues some time on the wing. 



