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P. Forewing more or less tinged with green or 



olive . . . . . ■ ■ • virescens. 



B. Forewing with the postmedial line not dentate or 

 waved. 



a. Forewing with the postmedial line oblique or 



slightly incurved below vein 4 . . vacula. 



b. Forewing with the postmedial line strongly incurv- 



ed below vein 4 . . • • ochrota. 



1976. Bkyophila nilgikia. 



1976«. Bkyophila albiclava. 



Bryophila albiclava, Hmpsn., Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M. vii, p. 

 622, pi. 122, f. 11 (1908). 

 $ . Head and thorax white ; palpi and antennte blackish ; frons with 

 black patch ; tegulse and patagia edged with black ; legs irrorated 

 with brown, the tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen pale-yellowish 

 brown. Forewing white with a faint bluish tinge and sparsely irrorated 

 with black-brown ; subbasal line black, double, waved, extending to inner 

 margin, with black-brown suffusion before and beyond it on costa ; 

 antemedial line double oblique, waved, the inner line interrupted ; 

 claviform white defined by black ; orbicular and reniform large, white 

 defined by black except above, the former with black-brown centre defined 

 by black, round, conjoined to antemedial line, the latter with small black 

 lunule on inner side of centre ; medial area black-brown to the indistinct 

 curved minutely waved medial line ; postmedial line double, slightly bent 

 outward below costa, then dentate, excurved to vein 4, then strongly 

 incurved, the costal area beyond it black-brown with some white points 

 on costa ; subterminal line black-brown, angled outwards above and below 

 vein 6, incurved at discal fold to postmedial line, slightly excurved at 

 middle, then angled inwards at submedian fold and outward at vein 1 ; a 

 terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia chequered black-brown and 

 white. Hindwing white tinged with reddish brown ; a faint discoidal spot, 

 curved postmedial line, and diffused subterminal band ; a terminal series' 

 of slight dark lunules ; the underside white tinged with brown, the 

 costal and terminal area irrorated with brown, a blackish discoidal spot and 

 faint curved postmedial line. 



Habitat. — Kashmik, Gorrais Valley, Exp. 36 mill. 



19766. Bbyophila polioph^a. 



Bryophila poliojjhoea, Hmpsn., Cat. Leja. Phal. B. M. vii, p. 622, 

 pi. 122, f. 12 (1908). 



Head and thorax whitish mixed with olive-brown and irrorated with 

 black ; palpi blackish, the extremity of 2nd joint white ; antennae black ; 

 tegulse and patagia edged with black ; tarsi blackish ringed with white ; 

 abdomen grey-white suffused with brown. Forewing whitish tinged with 



