BLEPHAEIDIA. 899 



moderate, defined by black : orbicular and reniform white defined 

 by black and with small browu centres, the former round : an 

 indistinct waved medial line from cell to inner margin ; j^ostmedial 

 line double filled in with white, bent outwards below costa, then 

 dentate, excurved to vein 4, then incurved, a diffused white patcli 

 beyond it above inner margin and some white points on costa ; 

 subterminal line white, defined on inner side by slight dentate black 

 marks below costa and at middle, somewhat angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and dentate to near termen at veins 4, 3 ; a terminal series 

 of black lunule's ; cilia inter^jected with white and with fuscous line 

 through them. Hind wing brown with an olive tinge ; traces of a 

 whitish postmedial line ; a fine dark terminal line ; cilia pale with 

 a brown line through them; the underside pale with black discoidal 

 lunule, curved postmedial line, and diffused subterminal band. 



$ . Darker, with more black scaling and fuscous suffusion. 



Hah. Tibet, Kuku Noor, 1 c?, 1 2 , Amdo ; W. China, Ta-chien- 

 lu, 1 J , type Montana. Exp. 36 millim. 



Sect. IV. Antennre of male ciliated. 



A. Fore wing black with white and rufous markings coiispicua. 



B. Fore wiug rufou.s witli the terminal area grey griseirufa. 



2586. Blepharidia conspicua. (Plate CV. fig. 18.) 



Polia consjnciia, Leech, Trans. Ent, See. 1900, p. 94. 



(J . Head and thorax black-brown mixed with a few white 

 scales; palpi white on inner side; frons with lateral white patches: 

 abdomen with tufts of white hair from basal joint ; pectus clothed 

 with whitish hair ; tibite at extremities, the spurs and tarsal joints 

 ringed with white ; abdomen dark brown, wlutish at base. Tore 

 wing black-brown slightly irrorated with white scales ; subbasal 

 line represented by diffused whitish patches from costa and cell, 

 with a brownish-white streak from its lower extremity to the 

 antemedial line which is represented by an oblique white bar from 

 costa, a bar from cell and a short streak on inner margin slightly 

 bent upwards at extremity ; two white points above middle of 

 inner margin ; claviform absent ; orbicular and reniform white 

 with slight brown centres, the former small, oblique elliptical, the 

 latter elliptical ; postmedial line black slightly defined by greyish on 

 outer side, with white bar at costa, white bar in submedian interspace 

 followed by a brown spot and white spot at inner margin, bent out- 

 wards below costa, then minutely dentate, excurved to vein 4, then 

 oblique, some white beyond it on costa; subterminal line represented 

 by a small white spot below costa, dentate white marks tinged with 

 brown on inner side above and below veins 6 and 4, a bar in sub- 

 median interspace and small spot on inner margin ; a terminal 

 series of slight white striae; cilia chequered black-brown and white. 

 Hind wing dark brown, the base pale ; some whitish on termen 

 towards tornus ; cilia brown intersected with white ; the underside 



