BKYOPIIILA. C39 



3524. Sryophila galathea. 



Bryo-phila gaMhea, Mill. Eev. Zool. 1874, p. 241 ; id. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 

 1875, p. 13, pi. 1. IF. 8,9; id. Mem. Soc. Cannes, 1879, p. lo6, pi. 7. 

 f. 14 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 166. 



tS . Head and thorax whitish mixed with hlack and some brown ; 

 pectus and legs whitish tinged with brown, the tarsi banded with 

 tuscous ; abdomen whitish tinged with brown, the crests black. 

 Tore wing whitish suffused with reddish brown and thickly irrorated 

 with black ; subbasal line black defined by white on outer side, 

 waved, i'roni costa to submedian fold, a blackish mark beyond it oil 

 inner margin ; anteniedial line black slightly defined by white on 

 inner side except at middle, erect, somewhat sinuous ; ciaviform 

 slightly defined by blackish at extremity ; orbicular defined by 

 black at sides, elliptical ; reiiiform defined by black on inner side, 

 hardly defined on outer ; traces of a curved medial blackish line ; 

 postmedial line indi.'-tinct, blackish, defined by white on. outer side 

 at costa and below submedian fold, bent outwards below costa, oblique 

 to vein 5, then inwardly oblique and slightly sinuous, some white 

 points beyond it on costa; a white apical patch, the white sub- 

 terminal line arising from it, incurved at discal and submedian 

 folds, excurved to termen at middle ; a terminal series of black 

 striae ; cilia fuscous and grey, intersected with white at base and 

 with dark medial line. Hind wing white tinged with red-brown ; 

 a dark terminal line ; cilia white tinged with red-brown at base ; 

 the underside white slightly tinged with red-brown, a slight 

 discoidal lunule and traces of a curved postmedial line. 



Hah. S.E. France, Alpes Maritiraes, 1 J; Switzeeland, Valais ; 

 N. Italy. Ex_p. 30 millim. 



3525. Bryophila ravula. 



Noctua ravula, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 461 (1818) ; Stand. Cat. Lep. 



pal. p. 166. 

 Isoctua lupula, Hiibn. Eur. Sc-hraett., Noct. f. 573 (1818) ; Dnp. Lep. Fr. 



vii. p. 367, pi. Vll. f. 6, & Suppl. iv. pi. 69. f. 4 ; Frr. Neue Beitr, 



pi. 170. ff. 4, 5 ; Herr.-SchafF. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 86. 

 Bryophila ereptricula, Treit. Schmett. Eur. t (1) p. 66 (1825) ; Diip. Lep. 



Fr. vii. p. 239, pi. 115. f. 4 ; Frr. Beitr. pL 84. ff. 1, 2, & pL 129; 



id. Neue Beitr. pi. 52. f. 2 ; Boisd. Icones, pi. 71. f. 5. 

 Bryophila iroglodyta, Frr. Neue Beitr. i. p. 102, pi. 62. f. 1 (1833). 

 Bryophila vandalusiw, Dup. Lep. P>. Suppl. iv. p. 405, pi. 82. f. 9(1842) ; 



Herr.-Schaff. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 569 ; Embr. Cat. Lep. S. And. pi. 6. 



ff. 1, 2. 



Head and thorax greyish mixed with red-brown and fuscous ; 

 palpi blackish, white at base ; Irons with lateral black bars ; pectus 

 and legs whitish mixed with black, the tarsi blackish ringed with 

 white ; abdomen whitish suffused with brown, the crests black. 

 Fore wing red-brown with some dark irroration ; some whitish at 

 base of inner margin ; the antemedial area and costal area to post- 

 medial line suffused with fuscous and irrorated with grey, some 

 Avhitish suffusion beyond postmedial line ; stibbasal line double, 



