BRYOPHILA. By Dr. M. Drattdt. 15 
markings, a bright grey with heavy black markings, some such a dark grey that the markings can scarcely be 
discerned; sometimes, as in the specimen illustrated, a black-brown broad discal band is created: — transversa 
/; nov. (2 a). — coiltristans Led. (2 a) is the eastern form which also is very variable; it occurs as well in forms 
with darkened red brown discal area — mediobrunnescens Strd. corresponding to provincialis C'ulot. Also with 
bold black longitudinal streak submedian from base to elbowed line and indistinctly beyond same like in 
striata of raptricula: — ramosana /. nov. (2 a). The species is always easily recognisable by the coppery reddish 
hue of hindwings. contristans is found in Kurdistan and Syria, besides in Greece and Asia Minor. — hoerhammeri 
Schaw. (2 a) recently described from Corsica makes a different impression. Somewhat larger, the grey-brown 
of forewings darker, less scaled with brown so that the white submarginal lines are suffused by white, only the 
small black dart-shaped marks and the white anal spot remaining; the two middle transverse bands bold, the 
area between being subdivided by a broad black transverse band; the basal dart-shaped mark is absent, the 
brownish scaled stigmata circumscribed by black. Hindwings darker outwardly, margin blackish almost to the 
middle. Corsica (Evisa). 
B. divisa Esp. (= pomula Blch., raptricula Hbn.) like most of the Bryophila is subject to the most 
astonishing variations. The name divisa denominates the more northern forms which are always darker, more 
black-brown. — oxybiensis Mill. (2 b) is the somewhat smaller and greyer southern form which occurs in the 
Provence, Spain, Sicily, Turkey as far as Turkestan. Specimens from Palestine and further east through Persia 
to Aksu and the Thian Shan are considerably more grey: — palaestinka Strd. (2 b) from Jerusalem is grey- 
white on forewings, finely striped with black on the veins. — deceptricula Hbn. denotes darker specimens with 
rich fuscous or fulvous admixture. Small specimens of this from S. France, Spain and Algiers are: — provincialis 
Culot ; here the basal area and inner margin of forewing are violet grey, the discal area of costa black-brown, 
the outer half of cell and beyond red-brown as far as the margin. Mauretania, June August. — persica Strd. 
(2 b) denotes quite similar specimens, which are larger and paler grey-white originating from Persia, the Urals, 
but also occurring in Hungary and Croatia as far as Irkutsk. It should be stated that Spanish oxybiensis very 
often have this yellow-red longitudinal streak from base to margin. Rothschild denominates unicoloured grey 
specimens as ab. unicolor (= grisea Dannehl ) (2 b). Specimens of oxybiensis approaching the type in regard to 
colouration are named nifitincta Rothsch. — ab. disfincta Rothsch. has a black basal %rd below the median 
fold. An extreme form of this is basimaculata Trti. (= illustris Dannehl) (2 c); this is a striata form on which 
the entire inner marginal area below r the black longitudinal line is darkened with a dark oblique streak up to 
the apex. Very dark specimens are named ab. saturiator Rothsch. bryophiloides Rothsch. denotes small specimens 
with narrow wings which are grey-brown with almost extinct markings. — Of striata (2 b) we are able to illustrate 
a fine specimen ex the Pungeler Collection. — tibetica Strd. (— ab. 8 Hmps.) (2 b) from Lob-Nor are similar 
to striata but the two transverse lines of fore wings stand out strikingly prominently black. Titratt has created 
a number of new names for specimens from Cyrenaica: — marmorata Trti. a dark form with whitish admixture 
at base of inner margin behind the antemedian and subterminal lines at costa and inner margin. — sarrothry- 
poides Trti. (2 c) are ash-grey specimens with numerous black spots. alboscapulata Trti. is a basimaculata 
with dark costal area and a large whitish basal mark on costa. — dilutata Trti. is grey-white with large trapeziform 
red-brown costal mark admixed with whitish outwardly. — trisigiiata Trti. is similar but also with a red-brown 
basal innermarginal spot and dark marginal area. - degenerata Trti. as the former but without the dark margin 
and the spots more black-brown. — acceptricula Trti. is ash-grey with large red-brown costal spot that is 
trapeziform and with bold black anal streak. —- variegatula Trti. is similar to degenerata but the black-brown 
colour is more extensive, so that the white fades away. All these forms are from Bengasi, but also occur occasion¬ 
ally elsewhere. 
B. dolopis Hmps. (2 c) closely resembles a large raptricula and it may be that it should only be classified 
as a subspecies. Basal and anal j/pd of the postmedian area are light grey, the latter with a fine white crescent 
above the inner margin and behind the outer transverse line. Hindwings reddish brown. Certainly as variable 
as divisa. — paliidior /. n. (2 c) denominates specimens without the dark trapeziform mark on costa. — striata 
/. n. (2 c) the corresponding form with the black submedian longitudinal streak. This larger species has hitherto 
apparently only been found at Askabad and Kushk. 
B. raptriculoides Trti. (2 c). This species, that is described from Sardinia, closely resembles the 
divisa-raptricula ; it is larger and bigger, the wing contour being wider. Ground colour dark ash-grey with faint 
greenish tone; the large dark brown spot which encloses the orbicular stigma, is not diffuse but sharply outlined, 
glossy; the markings are delicate but sharp and distinct, a fine white crescent behind the postmedian line in anal 
area. Hindwings grey-brown not whitish, head and scapulae pale grey. — mediostrigata Trti. represents the 
form striata of divisa with a black longitudinal submedian streak, which intersects the white anal crescent. - 
marmorata Trti. (2 c) is much darker black-brown with large white basal spot, the white anal mark considerably 
more extensive and a white patch also at apex. From Corsica and Sardinia, also from Sicily from the Ficuzza. 
transversa. 
contristans. 
mediobrun¬ 
nescens. 
ramosana. 
hoer- 
hammeri. 
divisa. 
oxybiensis. 
palae- 
stinica. 
deceptri¬ 
cula. 
provin¬ 
cialis. 
persica. 
unicolor. 
nifitincta. 
distincta. 
basi¬ 
maculata. 
saturatior. 
bryo¬ 
philoides. 
striata. 
tibetica. 
marmorata. 
sarro- 
thrypoides. 
albo¬ 
scapulata. 
dilutata. 
trisigiiata. 
degenerata. 
accep¬ 
tricula. 
variegatula. 
dolopis. 
paliidior. 
striata. 
raptriculoi¬ 
des. 
medio¬ 
strigata. 
marmorata. 
