. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 624 3501. Bryophila muralis. Koctiia muralis, Forst. Nov. Spec. Ins. p. 74 (1771); Staucl. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 167. Nooiua gland/fe7'a, Schiff. Wien. Verx. p. 70 (17761; Hiibn. Eur. Sctimett., Noct. f. 24; Frr. Neue Beitr. i, pi. 70. f. 2; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 44. 'Soctua lichenes. Fab. Spec. Ins. ii. p. 235 (1781); Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 118. f. 8 (1787); Donov. Nat. Hist. Brit. Ins. vii. pi. 223. f. 3 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 207, pi. 86. ff. 1-3. Noctuapar. Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 515 (18
. Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. Moths; Lepidoptera. 624 3501. Bryophila muralis. Koctiia muralis, Forst. Nov. Spec. Ins. p. 74 (1771); Staucl. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 167. Nooiua gland/fe7'a, Schiff. Wien. Verx. p. 70 (17761; Hiibn. Eur. Sctimett., Noct. f. 24; Frr. Neue Beitr. i, pi. 70. f. 2; Steph. 111. Brit. Ent., Haust. iii. p. 44. 'Soctua lichenes. Fab. Spec. Ins. ii. p. 235 (1781); Esp. Schmett. iv. pi. 118. f. 8 (1787); Donov. Nat. Hist. Brit. Ins. vii. pi. 223. f. 3 ; Dup. Lep. Fr. vi. p. 207, pi. 86. ff. 1-3. Noctuapar. Hiibn. Eur. Schmett., Noct. f. 515 (1818) ; Frr. Neue Beitr. pi. 70. f. 3. Bri/ophila perloides, Gueu. Noet. i. p. 29 (1852); Eiubr. Lep. S. And. pi. 7. f. 4 & pi. 13. f. 1. Bryopihilcb liguris, Mill. Mem. Soc. Cannes, 1878, p. 27, pi. 3. f. 8. Bryophila impar, Warren, E. M. M. xxi. p. 22 (1885); id. Entom. xiv. pi. Bryophila ohscura, Tutt, Entom. xxi. p. 48 (1888). Head white ; palpi witli black spot at side of 2nd joint; anteunae with the basal joint black, the shaft fuscous except at base ; thorax greenish white, the tegulse with dorsal black spot at base and black tips, the patagia with some black scales ou upper edge, the meta- thorax mixed with black; pectus white tinged with brown; legs white, the tibiae and tarsi banded with black ; abdomen white suffused and irrorated with brown, the crests tipped with Fig. 163.—Bryophila mural, Fore wing very pale blue-green ; black points at base of costa and median nervure; subbasal line represented by double black stride from costa and a line from cell with some fuscous suffusion before it, excurved, then bent outwards above inner margin and upwards at extremity : antemedial line with double black spots at costa and an oblique slightly sinuous line with a fuscous band beyond it from middle of cell to vein 1 ; orbicular round, defined by black lunules at sides only, closely approximated to the reniform, which is small, its centre tinged with fuscou
Size: 2561px × 976px
Photo credit: © Book Worm / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorhamp, bookcentury1800, bookdecade1890, booksubjectmoths
