648 KOCTUIDJE. 



Bryophila simulairicul a, Gue.n. Noct. i. p. 26, pi. 3. f. 4 (1852); Oberth. 

 Et. Lep. Comp. i. p. 59, pi. iv. f. 52. 



Head and thorax grey mixed "with brown and black ; tarsi 

 black ringed with grey ; abdomen grey-brown with the crests black. 

 Fore wing grey tinged with brown and irrorated with black; a 

 minutely waved black subbasal line from costa to submedian fold ; 

 antemedial line black defined by grey on inner side, minutely 

 waved, oblique from costa to submedian fold; the medial area 

 with a black streak below submedian fold ; orbicular and reniform 

 defined by blackish, the former irregularly rounded, the latter 

 constricted at middle and angled inwards on median nervure, a 

 pale patch between them in cell; an oblique black striga from 

 middle of costa and traces of a waved line on inner area ; post- 

 medial line black defined by grey on outer side, bent outwards 

 b(!low costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved and slightly angled 

 outwards on vein 1, some slight pale points beyond it on costa and 

 a black streak in submedian fold extending to termen ; a faint 

 waved grey subterminal line with slight black streaks beyond it on 

 the veins; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia brown 

 mixed wiih grey and with a brown line near base. Hind wing 

 ])ale red-brown with traces of discoidal spot and fine brown 

 terminal line ; cilia with a fine pale line at base ; the underside 

 grey irrorated with brown, a black discoidal lunula and indistinct 

 postmedial line excurved to vein 5, then oblique. 



Ab. 1. simulatricida. Smaller; fore wing greyish; hind wing 

 white, the terminal area suffused with brown, — Spain ; C, Italy, 



Hah. (jeemany, Zellcr and Leech Colls. ; Austeia, Frey and 

 Leech Cells. ; Hdngaet ; Switzeeland ; Spain, Aragon, Castillo ; 

 Italy ; Finland ; Ecssia, Sarepta, Zeller Coll. Exp. 28-34 

 millim. 



Larva. Kirby, Butt. & Moths Eur. p. 160; Hfim. Raup. p. 76. 



Similar to B. divisa, but the lateral line entire. 



Genus HARRISIMEMNA. 



Type. 

 Harrisimemna, Grote, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc. iv. p. 293 (1873) ... trisignata. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint reaching 

 about to middle of frons and fringed with hair in front, the 3rd short, frona 

 smooth; eyes large, rounded; antennae of male typically with very short 

 branches; thorax clothed entirely with scales, the prothorax without distinct 

 (M-est, the raetathorax with immense crest of long spatulate scales; tibisa 

 moderately fringed with hair; abdomen with dorsal crests on each segment, 

 ihe crest on 4th segment extremely large and the crests on three following 

 segments rather large. Fore wing witii the apex rounded, the termen evenly 

 curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 6 from upper 

 anjile; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form tiie areole ; 11 from cell. 

 Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obsolescent from just below 

 middle of discocellulars ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell 

 iiear base only. 



