G40 N0CT1JID,E. 



curved, from costa to vein 1, above which there is a whitish patch 

 beyond it; antemedial line double, somewhat inwardly oblique and 

 bent inwards to inner margin, the inner line slightly angled 

 inwards in submedian fold ; claviform represented by a slight brown 

 striga at extremity ; orbicular defined by black, elliptical 5 reniform 

 with greyish centre slightly defined by black and whitish annulus 

 slightly defined by black, constricted at middle ; an oblique dark 

 striga from middle of costa and faint incurved line from lower angle of 

 cell to inner margin ; postmedial line double filled in with whitish, 

 the outer line indistinct, bent outwards below costa, excurved to 

 vein 4, then incurved and slightly excurved at vein I ; the post- 

 medial costal area blackish with oblique outer edge and some grey 

 points on costa ; an indistinct minutely waved brown subterminal 

 line excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a black shade before 

 termen from below apex to vein 3 ; a fine black terminal line ; cilia 

 grey and fuscous with a dark line through them. Hind wing 

 Avhite, the veins and terminal area tinged with brown ; cilia white 

 tinged with brown at apex and with slight brown marks at middle ; 

 the underside white, the costa and terminal area to vein 2 irrorated 

 with brown, a small discoidal spot and sinuous postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. ereptricula. Fore wing darker, the basal area suffused 

 with white, the terminal area with diff'used white spots towards 

 costa and tornus. 



Ab. 2. vandal as'tcB. Fore wing much greyer ; hind wing white 

 in male. — Spain, Asia Minor, Mesopotamia. 



Ab. 3. Similar, but fore wing with the antemedial area rufous. — 

 Syria. 



Hah. Peancb, Sand and Leech Colls. ; Gekmant, Zeller Coll. ; 

 AusTEiA, Zeller and Leech Colls ; Hungakt, Leech Coll. ; Switzer- 

 land, Frey Coll.; Spain, Galicia, Casayo {Chapman), Castillo, 

 Andalusia, Aragon ; Italy ; Dalmatia, Spalato, Zeller Coll. ; 

 Algeria; Asia Minor, Taurus Mts., 2 S , Amanus Mts, 1 5 ; 

 Syria, Lebanon, 2 d" , 1 5 , Mardin ; Mesopotamia ; Kashmir, 

 Dana (McArthur), 1 S . Exp. 24-30 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 160 ; Hffm. Eaup. p. 77. 



Blue with a black dorsal line and waved yellowish-red lateral 

 stripe defined below by black. Food-plants : Lichens on walls. 5-6. 



3526. BryopMla mseonis. 



Bryo-phila mcBonis, Led. Ann. Soc. Ent. Belg. IS60, pp. 63 & 78, pi. 3. 



f. 8 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 167. 

 BryopMla sorcUda, Staud. Iris, xii. p. 358 (1899). 

 Bryophila rubellina, Staud. Iris, xii. p. 35J (1899). 



Head and thorax whitish suffused with reddish and fuscous 

 brown; pectus and legs white tinged with brown, the tarsi banded 

 with fuscous; abdomen white with indistinct dorsal reddish brown 

 bands. Fore w^ing greyish suffused with reddish-brown and 

 irrorated with fuscous ; the medial and terminal areas slightly 

 suffnsed with fuscous ; an indistinct obliquely curved whitish 

 subbasal line defined on each side bj" fuscous marks ; an indistinct 



