72 BOMBTCOID^. — BRYOPHILID.E. 



\i ing white ; apical area fuscous, instead of wholly suflused with fuscous. Underside white 

 in both sexes; fore wing slightly suffused with fuscous, except inner margin ; hind wing with 

 a fuscous spot at end of cell and postmedial band. Legs with tibise and tarsi spotted with 

 black. 



Hyboma ni^-ivitta. (Plate CXLIV. fig. 19.) 



Expanse 1^ inch. 



Male. Fore wing jiale brown ; some black strigas from the costa ; the orbicular outlined 

 with a narrow black line at the sides, a similar spot below it, the two forming an incomplete 

 figure of eight, the area just inside it being suffused with black ; reniform rounded, and out- 

 lined by a narrow black line ; a curved, luunlatc, narrow, black postmedial band, with a series 

 of black spots beyond it ; a lunulate, diffused, fuscous snbmarginal band ; a series of black 

 autecilial spots ; a longitudinal black streak from the base along median vein, curved round 

 below the figure of eight, then oblique to outer margin just above outer angle. Hind wing 

 pearly grey, the outer margin suffused with fuscous. Underside ochreous white, the disc of fore 

 wing sufi'used with fuscous; hind wing with a diffused subioarginal fuscous band. 



Nearest to the European H. strigosa, but amply distinct. 



BEYOPHILID/E. 



Bryophila lichenea. (Plate CXLIY. fig. 12.) 



Expanse ^-1 inch. 



Male and female. Fore wing : ground-colour white, with numerous black and grey 

 scales ; costa blackish, with white strigie ; subbasal, antemedial, and postmedial outwardly- 

 oblique, waved, narrow, black bands ; a submarginal one from costa to first median nervule, 

 the costal portion bent in towards the base, with a dark patch outside it ; an antecilial 

 lunulate band ; orbicular small in male, large in female. Hind wing smoky, white towards 

 the base. Cilia white. Underside : fore wing smoky ; hind wing white, with broken postmedial 

 dark band. Head and collar with an olive tinge ; thorax white, powdered with black ; 

 abdomen dusky, white below. 



Nearest to the European B. perla. 



Bryophila muscosa. (Plate CXLIV. fig. 15.) 



Expanse \\ inch. 



Male. Fore wing olive-green, with the following diffused black and white markings : 

 costa black, with white strigae; a subbasal black band from subcostal nervure to inner 



