pallia! a. 
simulatri- 
cula. 
zobeli. 
pallida. 
albo- 
maoulata. 
grisescens. 
anaemica. 
pannosa. 
miltophaea. 
plumbina. 
piingeleri. 
vilis. 
16 BRYOPHILA. By Dr. M. Drattdt. 
B. palliola Bkh. (= fraudatricula Hbn.). The name given by Borkhausen has a precedence of 10 years 
and can therefore claim priority as has quite correctly been pointed out by Hampson. It occurs throughout 
Asia to the Amur and Ussuri (according to the Pungeler Collection) and is also found on Japan and Saghalin. 
B. simulatricula Guen. (2 d) is certainly a genuine species, as Pungeler among others was able to 
prove by breeding from the ova and it is not the same as palliola. It is somewhat smaller, narrower with more 
acute wings, more whitish and coarsely sprinkled with ashy grey, the markings thereby become more nebulous 
and less distinct. Especially specimens from Algiers often have a black longitudinal streak at inner margin 
of forewings, the region round the reniform stigma is sometimes whitish, ground colour variable, ashy grey to 
reddish yellow-brown. Hindwings quite pale whitish, dusted with grey with fine discoidal lunule and grey- 
brown postmedian, subterminal and marginal lines. From the Valais (Martigny), Spain, Italy and Mauretania 
from August to November. The larvae feed on Juniperus phoenicea. — f. zobeli Heinrich is larger than specimens 
from the Valais, not grey but whitish with blackish markings; ground colour of fore wings much darker, more 
blackish than normal light grey specimens. Hindwings are paler and have 2 narrow marginal bands. Described 
from Digne. 
B. pallida Beth. Baker (2 f) described as a local form of palliola but with Rothschild, I consider same 
to be a genuine species. Smaller than the species named, it is of much paler colouration with decidedly shorter 
and wider wings. Fore wings pale greenish grey, the black transverse lines and the spot in the middle of discal 
area as there, the black anal streak is absent; both stigmata are finely circumscribed by blackish, more distinct 
than in palliola, reniform stigma filled with pale grey. Hindwings very pale grey with distinct black postmeclian 
line and dark grey discal spot. Described from Egypt (Alexandria), also from Algiers, Tunis and Morocco. 
B„ albomaculata Rothsch. ( = albimacula Oberth.) (2d) is not allied to simulatricula. Head whitish, 
thorax grey and olive green, abdomen olive brown, grey at extremity. In typical specimens forewings are light 
grey, more or less dusted with yellowish or glossy olive bronze with a black, twice interrupted longitudinal streak 
over submedian nervure from base to margin; basal %rd admixed with white, the very large reniform stigma 
white, behind same a curved darker line which is bordered with white over the inner margin; marginal area 
heavily mixed with white with a dark spot in middle of margin. Hindwings grey-white, $ darker, greyer, the 
posterior transverse line wider with larger white spot below median nervure. Hindwings grey-brown. Algiers 
in August, September. A form found more often in W. Algeria: — grisescens Rothsch. is darker grey without 
the bronze yellow dusting, the reniform stigma is not always white. 
B. anaemica Hmps. is held by Rothschild to be an extreme form of albomaculata. Forewings white 
with brown hue, partly yellowish and sprinkled with black; a black basal streak to elbowed line, which like the 
inner line is very indistinct blackish; both upper stigmata are small brownish spots in faint whitish ringlets; 
behind the oblique subterminal line there are short black streaks above and below discoidal and median 
nervures. Hindwings faintly brownish with white fringes. Expanse of wings 26 mm. Batna. 
B. pannosa Wilem. Of this I have no specimen before me. Fore wings impure grey-brown, behind the 
middle with whitish costal spot, apex intersected by a whitish streak, whitish scales along costa; 3 irregular darker 
transverse lines, each commencing with a small black costal spot, submarginal suffused. Hindwings darker 
grey-brown. Wing expanse 19 mm. Japan (Hondo). 
B, miltophaea limps. (2 d) is a highly variable species. Forewings with yellowish ground densely scaled 
with rosy-red, somewhat like Antitype argillaceago, interspersed with dark lead-grey scales or quite unicolourous 
dark lead-grey: — plumbina f. nov. (2 d) only with a few brick-red scales along the transverse lines, the dentate 
transverse lines indistinctly double; both upper stigmata with dark centres with feeble lighter ringlet and 
narrowly circumscribed by black, orbicular stigma elliptical, reniform stigma constricted, also a dark claviform 
stigma indicated; subterminal line faintly paler. Hindwings light yellowish brown, margin darker with white- 
yellow fringes. V/. Turkestan, Alexander Mountains. 
B. piingelen n. sp. (2 d) resembles the former species somewhat in form and size and is classified in the 
Pungeler Collection in the Berlin Museum under miltophaea, but I consider same a separate species. Fore wings 
are somewhat narrower and more elongated on the average, pale yellowish grey, coarsely sprinkled with blue- 
grey in the basal, discal and marginal areas, the 3 stigmata with darker grey centres and heavily circumscribed 
by black, the very large claviform stigma with darker centre and conjoined to the orbicular stigma; both 
transverse lines much less distinct than in miltophaea in comparison to the irregularly blue-grey ground colour. 
Hindwings much lighter whitish yellow-grey, slightly darker at margin with white fringes. Type from Aksu in 
the Draltdt Collection, further specimens in the Museums of Berlin and Munich being collected by Ruckbeil, 
also from Mustagata, Yarkend and E. Turkestan from Chamil Kami. 
B. vilis Hmps. (2 d) is a larger species, forewings with whitish ochreous ground colour densely sprinkled 
with black, discal area almost completely black, the indistinct transverse lines whitish and feebly dentate; 
orbicular stigma round finely lightly circumscribed, reniform stigma scarcely discernible; the light subterminal 
line very indistinct. Hindwings whitish, with faint brownish tinge, darker at margin with white fringes. The 
$ is more uniformly dusted and sprinkled with black. Merv (W. Turkestan). 
