644 KOCTDID^. 



Noctua. deceptvicula , Hiibn, Eur. Schniett., Noct., f. 30 (1802); Frr. Neue 

 Beitr. pi. 179. f. 2; Dup. L6p. Fr. Suppl. iii. p. 539, pi. 45. f. ba-b. 



Noctua carbonis, Frr. Neue Beitr. vi. p. 102, pi. 644. f. 4 (1852). 



Bryophila oxybiensis, JVJill. Eev. d. Zool. 1874, p. 242; id. Ann. Soc. ent. 

 Fr. 1875. p. 13, pi. 1. ff. 10-12; id. Mem. Soc. Cannes, 1879, pi. m\. 

 ff. 9-11. 



BryofUla striata, Stand. Hor. Soc. Ent. Eoss. xiv. p. 366 (1879). 



BryopJiila eretina, Oalb. Iris, i. p. 221, pi. 12. f. 3 (1888). 



Head and thorax brown mixed with grey ; palpi fuscous, whitish 

 at base ; pectus and legs whitish suffused with brown, the tarsi 

 brown with slight pale rings; abdomen grey suffused with brown. 

 Fore wing grey suffused with brown, the antemedial area from 

 costa to subraedian fold and thence the lower part of cell and area 

 below it to submedian fold rufous to near termen, beyond the cell 

 extending up to vein 6 ; traces of a curved antemedial line with 

 dark striga from costa; orbicular small, round, slightly defined by 

 blackish ; reniform small, faintly defined by brown ; traces of a 

 sinuous brown line from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; 

 post medial line double, the outer line indistinct, bent outwards 

 below costa, strongly excurved to vein 4, then strongly incurved, 

 a black streali beyond it in submedian fold to near termen ; an 

 ill-defined oblique greyish fascia from aj^ex ; faint traces of a 

 minutelj^ waved subterminal line ; cilia brown, whitish at base. 

 Hind wing white slightly suffused and irrorated with brown, 

 especially on the veins and terminal area ; the underside white 

 slightly irrorated with brown. 



Ab. 1. eretina. Palpi fringed with yellow hair in front. — C. 

 Italy. ' 



Ab. 2. raptricula. Fore wing without the rufous medial fascia, 

 a white striga on postmedial line in submedian fold. 

 Ab. 3. carhonis. Fore wing darker. 



Ah. 4:. oxyhiensis. Greyer; fore wing with the markings in- 

 distinct, sometimes almost obsolete. 



Ab. 5. Grey-white; fore wing with or without rufous suffiision 

 on 'disk of medial area. — Persia, Schahkuh in Coll. Piingeler. 



Ab. 6. Grey-white ; fore wing with the veins streaked with 

 black. — Palestine, Jerusalem in Coll. Piingeler. 



Ab. 7. striata. Fore wing with black streak on medial area in 

 Bubmedian fold. 



Ab. 8. Like striata but fore wing with the ante- and postmedial 

 lines strong. and black. — Tibet, Lob-noor in Coll. Piingeler. 



Hah. France, Sand, Frey, and Leech Colls. ; Germany, Zeller 

 and Frey Colls. ; Austria ; Hungary, Zeller Coll. ; SAvrizERLANn ; 

 Spain, Aragon ; Italy ; Scandinavia ; Russia, Sarepta, Zeller Coll. : 

 Armenia; Asia Minor, Pontus, Amanus Mts., 1 $; Syria, Leech 

 Coll., 1 S ; Persia ; W. Turkestan, Turcomania, Ferghana, Saisan, 

 Issyk Kul: W. Siberia, Altai; E. Turkestan, Hi; E, Siberia, 

 Ussuri. Exp. 30-34 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Mot.bs Eur. p. 160, pi. 34. f. 1 ; Hffm. Raup. 

 p. 76, p]. 22. f. 7. 



Elue-grey with two dorsal stripes spotted with yellow and black. 

 Food-plants: >Si'iV<«|wimonfm« and Lichens. 7-8. 



