BEYOPniLi. 625 



of fuscous sufFasiou beyond it exeept towards costa and inner 

 margin ; cilia white, with a series of small triangular black marks 

 at base extending slightly on to termen and a series of black spots 

 at tips. Hind wing whitish uniformly suffused with brown, traces 

 of a discoidal lunule and sinuous puuctiform postmedial line ; a 

 dark terminal line ; cilia white with some brownish marks at base ; 

 the underside white irrorated with brown especially on costal area 

 and apical half of terminal area ; a small black discoidal spot, 

 sinuous maculate postmedial line strongly excurved below costa, and 

 waved terminal line. 



Ab. 1. obsGurior. Darker. 



Ab. 2. par. Paler, the lines brownish and less prominent. 



Ab. 3. impar. Fore wing greenish white mottled with brown, 

 the lines brown, not prominent. 



Ab. 4. perloides. Much smaller ; fore wing irrorated with 

 yellow. — Andalusia. 



Hub. Beitauj^, Leech Coll. ; Fea.nge, Zeller and vSand Colls. ; 

 Gbemanz, Zeller, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Atjsteia. Zeller and Leech 

 Colls.; HuNGAEY, D'Emmick Coll. ; Switzeeland, Frey Coll.; Spain, 

 Andalusia ; Saedinia {Fletcher) ; Italy, Capri {0. S. Browne) ; 

 Dalmatia ; Algeeia ; Aemenia, 1 $ ; Asia Minoe, Pontus ; Peesia, 

 1 c? , 1 ? , Leech Coll. Exp. 28-32 millim. 



Larva. Mpyr. Brit. Lep. p. 138 , Barrett, Lep. Brit. vi. p. 207, pi. 249. f. 1. 



Bluish grey ; dorsal line white, irregular, sometimes interrupted ; 

 subspiracular line pale or yellowish ; spots white ; head and 

 thoracic plate black. Food-plants : Lichens on walls. 10-5. 



3502. Bryophila perla. 



Nodua perla, SchifF. Wien. Verz. p. 70 (177ri) ; Fabr. Mant. Ins. ii. 



p. 173 (1789) ; Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 177. f. 2 ; Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. 



f. 25 ; Frr. Neue Beitr. i. pi. 70. f. 1 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. Suppl. vi. p. 210, 



pi. 86. f. 4 ; Stepb. 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. iii. p. 45 ; Mill. Metn. Soc. 



Cannes, 1879, p. 135, pi. 7; ff. 12, 13; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 167. 

 Bryophila pyrenma, Oberth. Et. Ent. viii. p. 48, pi. 1. f. 13 (1884). 

 Bryophila suffusa, Tutt, Entom. xxi. p. 49 (1888). 

 Brynphila lute&cens, Fuchs, Jbrb. Nass. xlii. p. 208 (1889). 

 Bryophila perlina, Staud. Oat. Lep. pal. p. 167 (1901). 



Head and thorax white faintly tinged with brown, the dorsum 

 of thorax with some black scales; 2nd joint of palpi with black 

 patch at sides ; antennae brown ; pectus and legs white mixed with 

 brown, the tarsi banded with black ; abdomen white with fuscous 

 brown dorsal bands. Fore wing white tinged with olive-yellow ; 

 some greyish before the subbasal line, which is double at costa, the 

 inner line bent outwards in cell, then minutely waved to inner 

 margin ; antemedial line with double widely separated black bars 

 from costa, the outer line then bent inwards in cell and minutely 

 waved to inner margin, defined by whitish on inner side, a large 

 grey patch beyond it filling the claviform and orbicular, the former 

 defined by white and black at extremity only, the latter by white 

 and black at sides and black above ; reniform with grey centre and 



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