BRTOCODIA. 



477 



blue-green and white, the latter with black line near upper edge ; 

 palpi blackish at sides; frons with black bar; tibi83 and tarsi 

 banded with black ; abdomen white mixed with rufous, the crests 

 black at tips. Fore wing emerald green, the antemedial costal 

 area, the medial area, and the postmedial area except towards costa 

 and inner margin mostly suffused with rufous ; subbasal line repre- 

 sented by two diffused black bars from costa, a point below base of 

 cell and a spot above vein 1 ; antemedial line double towards costa 

 and inner margin, black filled in with white at costa and the veins, 



Fig. 135.— £ri/ocodia lepidula, i^. \. 



incurved in cell and slightly angled inwards at vein 1 ; orbicular 

 and reniform large, green with incomplete white annuli defined by 

 a few black scales, confluent in lower part of cell and with V-shaped 

 black mark between them in upper part ; a medial blackish bar 

 from costa and oblique line from cell to inner margin ; postmedial 

 line represented by double black bars from costa filled in with 

 white, then by a series of double black points on the veins with 

 some white between them, bent outwards below costa and strongly 

 incurved below vein 4, with alternating black and white spots 

 beyond it on costa; subterminal line only defined by a blackish 

 patch before it on costa and the rufous suffusion at middle, excurved 

 below vein 7 and at middle ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia 

 chequered blackish and rufous with a black line at middle. Hind 

 wing whitish tinged with red-brown ; cilia yellowish white with a 

 brown line through them ; the underside yellowish white slightly 

 irrorated with brown, a black discoidal spot and indistinct sinuous 

 postmedial line. 



Hab. Canada, U.S.A., Maine to New Jersey, New York ; Evans 

 Center (Grote), 1 S , Delaware, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, Missouri, 

 1 J , 1 $ type, Colorado. Eccp. 36 millim. 



5723. Bryocodia avirida. (Plate CLXIII. fig. 17.) 



Bryophila avirida. Smith, J. N.Y. Eat. Soc. xiv. p. 10 (1906). 



Head and thorax grey-white mixed with some dark brown scales ; 

 palpi and frons black at sides ; tibiae and tarsi banded with blackish ; 

 abdomen grey- white suffused with brown, the crests blackish. Fore 

 wing grey-white thickly irrorated and suffused with dark brown ; 

 the costal area strongly suffused with black-brown to beyond middle, 

 expanding into triangular patches to near median nervure before 



