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patch at tornus crossed by an oblique brown bar and with black 

 point on its inner edge; cilia chequered fuscous and white; the 

 underside greenish white slightly tinged with brown, the costal 

 area with some brown irroration at and beyond middle, the terminal 

 area irroraied with brown, a black discoidal bar, postmedial line 

 waved from costa to vein 5, then incurved and almost obsolete, and 

 diffused waved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. murrhina. Fore wing with the terminal area mostly 

 suffused with red-brown. 



Hal. Britain, Leech Coll. ; France, Sand & Leech Colls. ; Ger- 

 many, Zeller, Frey, & Leech Colls.; Austria, Leech Coll.; Hungary; 

 Switzerland ; Spain, Bilbao; Italy; Scandinavia; Russia, 

 Livonia, Zeller Coll. ; Armenia ; E. Siberia, Ussuri ; Japan, Myano- 

 shita (Ferbury), 1 d,l $ , Oiwake (Pryer), 3 J, Tokio (Fenton), 

 '2 $ , Yokohama (Jonas, Pryer), 1 rf , 1 £ ; Corea, Gensan (Leech), 

 1 ci , 1 $; C. China, Kiukiang (Pratt), 1 §; W. China, Omeishan, 

 1 2 , Chang-yang (Pratt). 1 rf , 2 $ . Exp. 33-42 millim. 



Larva. Meyr. Brit. Lep. p. 139; Barrett, Lep. Brit. iii. p. 216, pi. 119. 

 f. 2. 



Brownish ochreous with several irregular yellowish lines, the 

 dorsum black on somites 3-1 1 : pale yellow or whitish transverse 

 dorsal patches on somites -1-6 and 9 ; tubercles reddish, bearing 

 tufts of brown or whitish hairs ; head black, marked with yellowish. 

 Food-plants: Oak, Birch, Beech, &c. 7-9. 



3604. Daseochseta muscosa. 



Bryophila muscosa, Hrupsn. 111. Het. B. M. viii. p. 72, pi. 144. f. 15 



(1891) ; id. Moths Ind. li. p. 298. 

 Diphtlura imray, Hnipsu. J. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. x-vii. p. 472 ( 1 906). 



Palpi black with a few white scales, the extremity of 2nd joint 

 white ; frons white ; vertex of head black mixed with white scales, 

 the basal joint of antenna? white behind and the back of head with 

 white patches, the base of shaft of antennae ringed with white ; 

 tegulse and patagia green and white at base, black at tips ; vertex 

 of thorax black and white mixed ; pectus mostly white, the legs 

 black, the tibia? and tarsi ringed with white and with white patches 

 at base of tibia? ; abdomen whitish suffused with black leaving 

 slight white segmental rings, the crest on 3rd segment rufous, the 

 anal tuft white at tip. Fore wing blue-green, the costa black 

 except at base ; a white spot at base with some black beyond and 

 below it ; a short white fascia in submedian interspace ; a subbasal 

 white point on costa followed by a black patch extending to median 

 nervure : an antemedial white point on costa, black spot in sub- 

 median fold and black points with white point between them on 

 inner margin ; claviform white defined by black suffusion ; orbicular 

 white defined by black, small, round ; reniform wkite defined by 

 black with some green in centre and black point in upper part and 



