636 NocTuiDji;. 



Ab. 1. degener. Pore wing nearly uniform pale green. 



Ab, 2. mendaculci. Paler ; fore wing variegated with dark 

 markings. 



Ab. 3. ccdligrapha. Similar, but fore wing with the antemedial 

 and terminal areas more or less suffused with orange. 



Ab. 4. Pore wing with the antemedial area whitish. 



Hab. Britain- ; Prance, Sand and Leech Colls. ; Germany, 

 Zeller, Prej', and Leech Colls, ; Austria, Leech Coll. ; Hungary ; 

 Switzerland ; Armenia ; Asia Minor ; W. Turkestan, Perghana ; 

 E. Siberia, Ussuri. Exp. 24-30 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 133 ; Kirby, Butt. & Moths Ear. p. 159; Hffm. 

 Raup. p. 77. 



Greenish grey mixed with whitish; dorsal line and lateral spots 

 white; a dorsal series of horseshoe-shaped black marks; spiraeular 

 line pale edged with blackish above; head black. Pood-plants: 

 Lichens on trees. 10-5. 



3519. BryopMla receptricula. 



Nodua strigula, Borkh. Eur. Scbmett. iv. p. 181 (1792), nee. Thnb. 1788. 

 Noctua receptricula, Hiibn. Eur. Sebmett., Noct. f. 27 (18(i2); Frr. Neue 



Beitr. pi. 179. f. 3, and pi. 267. f. 1 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 166. 

 Bryo]}hila pallida, Beth.-Baker, Trans. Ent. Soc. 1894, p. 37, pi. 1. f. 4. 



Head and thorax dull grey-green ; palpi blackish with white 

 rings at extremity of 2nd and 3rd joints; tegulae with slight dorsal 

 black streak ; patagia slightly edged with black above ; tarsi 

 blackish ringed with white ; abdomen reddish brown with some 

 whitish towards base, the crests blackish. Pore wing dull grey- 

 green with slight dark irroration ; subbasal line represented by 

 double strise from costa and cell, the inner stride black, the outer 

 faint ; antemedial line black, obliquely curved and very slightly 

 sinuous, indistinctly double at costa ; the medial area with black 

 streak in submedian fold ; cl.iviform small, defined by black ; 

 orbicular with faint double black outline, oblique elliptical ; reni- 

 form large, extending to well below cell, slightly defined by black 

 and somewhat constricted at middle; an oblique blackish striga 

 from costa to reniform and traces of an incurved minutely waved 

 line from reniform to inner margin ; postmedial line double at costa, 

 bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved and 

 minutely waved, some pale points beyond it on costa, an oblique 

 black streak below vein 2 from just beyond it to near termen ; sub- 

 terminal line indistinct, dark, minutely waved and with black 

 points at the veins, slightly excurved below vein 7; a terminal 

 series of slight black striae ; cilia grey with a diffused black line 

 through them. Hind wing whitish suffused with reddish brown 

 especially on terminal area ; an indistinct dark discoidal spot and 

 curved minutely waved postmedial line; cilia white with a strong 

 brovrn line through them ; the underside white irroratcd with 

 fuscous, a black discoidal spot, a postmedial line excurved and 



