BKTOMIMA. 393 



orbicular with dark centre and undefined whitish annulus, round ; 

 reniform grey, 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 ; subterminal line grey 

 slightly defined by blackish suff'usion on inner side, angled outwards 

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

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

 white suffused and thickly irr orated with brown, the terminal area 

 broadly fuscous brown ; a dark discoidal spot and indistinct curved 

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

 underside white thickly irrorated with brown, the terminal area 

 suff'used with fuscous, a black discoidal lunule and sinuous post- 

 medial line. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado (Coc^er^ZZ), 1 cj , Glenwood Springs, Boulder, 

 1 S , Arizona, Prescott (JET. Edwards, Kunze), 2 J , 2 5 • Exp. 

 28 millim. 



2577. Bryomima carducha. 



Sryomima carducha. Stand. Iris, 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. ISO. — Bryomima carducha, (S . \. 



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 

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

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

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

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

 slight black striae ; 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 term en 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 diff'used postmedial line. 



Hah. Syeia, Mardin ; Mesopotamia, 1 cj' , 1 5 . E^cp. 28-30 

 millim. 



