ERYOPHILA. C43 



3530. Bryophila semifascia. (Plate CXXII. fig. 29.) 



Chytonyx semifascia, Smitli, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxii. p. 415 (1900); 

 byar, Cat. Lep. N. Am. p. 107. 



Head, tegulae, and patagia dark brown mixed with white, the 

 vertex of head whitish ; thorax white with some brown scales ; 

 pectus whitish ; tarsi black ringed with white ; abdomen whitish 

 suffused with brown. Fore wing pale reddish brown irrorated 

 with white, the inner half suffused with fuscous ; ttutemedial line 

 blackish defined by grey on inner side, oblique, sinuous ; tho 

 medial area with white patch from cell to inner margin ; orbicular 

 and reniform with faint grey annuli .slightly defined by brown, 

 the former round, the latter somewhat constricted at middle ; 

 traces of a medial line, oblique from costa to reniform and 

 represented by some dark scales on the white patch ; postmedial 

 line blackish slightly defined by grey on outer side, bent outwards 

 below costa, excurved to vein 5, then incurved and sliglitly angled 

 outwards at vein 1 ; subterminal line very indistinct on costal 

 half, excurved below vein 7 and angled inwards in discal fold and 

 with wedge-shaped brown patch beyond it from below apex to 

 discal fold, then represented by small white marks Avith dentate 

 black marks on their inner side and blackish streaks beyond tbem ; 

 a blackish terminal line with minute white streaks at extremities 

 of veins ; cilia blackish mixed with some whitit^h. Hind wing 

 white, the veins and termen tinged with brown; a fine brown 

 terminal line ; cilia with a slight brown line near base ; the 

 underside with the costal area and terminal area to vein 4 irrorated 

 with brown, a small discoidal spot and traces of diffused post- 

 medial line oblique below vein 4. 



Hah. U.S.A., Colorado, 1 c^ . Exp. 32 millim. 



*3531. Bryophila piiieti, 



Bryophila pineti, Stand. Stett. ent. Zeit. 1859, p. 212 ; Embr. Cat. Lep. 

 S. And. pi. 11. f. 2; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 165. 



cj , Head and thorax grey; abdomen whitish tinged with grey. 

 Fore wing grey tinged with rufous ; reniform small, oblique, 

 yellowish defined by blackish on inner side ; postmedial line 

 indistinct and excurved from costa to vein 4, then strongly 

 incurved and defined by yellowish on outer side ; subterminal line 

 faint, dark, excurved, angled inwards in submedian fold. Hind 

 wing grey-white suffused with fuscous especially towards termen. 



Hob. Spain, Andalusia, Chiclana, Castille. Exp. 27 millim. 

 This species is unknown to me. 



3532. Bryophila divisa. 



Noctua divisa, Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 158. if. 5, tt (1791) 

 Noctua pomula, Borijii. Eur. Sclimett. iv. p. ]8:i (1792;. 

 Noctiia raptricu'a, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 29 (1802); Frr. Neue 

 Beitr. pis. 179, f. 1, & 2C)7. i". 2 c?-/"; Staud. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 1U6. 



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