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what dentate below vein 4 ; subterminal line only defined by a band of 

 dark irroration on its inner side, excurved below vein 7 and at middle 

 and incurved at discal and submedian folds ; a terminal series of black 

 striae. Hindwing white faintly tinged with brown ; cilia pure white ; the 

 underside white faintly tinged with brown. 

 Habitat. — Kashmir, Dras. Exji. 24-30 mill. 

 1974. Bryophila vikescbns. 

 1974«. Beyophila Eavula. 



Noctua ravula, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett. Noct. f . 461 (1818) ; Staud. Cat. Lep. 

 Pal., p. 166. 

 „ lupula, Hiibn. Eur. Schmett. Noct. f . 573 (1818) ; Dup. Lep. Fr 

 vii., p. 367, pi. 122, f. 6 and Suppl. iv., pi. 69, f. 4 ; Frr. 

 Neue. Beitr. pi. 170 ff. 4-5 ; Herr. SchaflF. Eur. Schmett. 

 Noct. f . 86. 

 Bryophila ereptricula, Treit. Schmett. Eur. (I), p. 66, (1825) ; Dup Lep. 

 Fr. vii, p. 236, pi. 115, f. 4 ; Frr. Beitr. pi. 84, 

 flf. I, 2 and pi. 129 ; id. Neue. Beitr. pi. 52, f. 2 ; 

 Boisd. Icones., pi. 71, f. 5. 

 ,, troglodyta, Frr. Neue. Beitr. I, p. 102, pi. ^"i, f. 1 (1833). 

 ., vandalusice, Dup. Lep. Fr. Suppl. iv., p. 405, pi. 82, f. 9 (1842) ; 

 Herr. Schaff. Eur. Schmett. Noct. f. 569 ; Embr. 

 Cat. Lep. S. Aud., pi. 6, ff. 1-2. 

 Head and thorax greyish mixed with red-brown and fuscous ; palpi 

 blackish, white at base ; frons with lateral black bars ; pectus and legs 

 whitish mixed with black, the tarsi blackish tinged with white, abdomen 

 whitish suffused with brown, the crests black. Forewing red-brown with 

 some dark irroration, some whitish at base of inner margin ; the anteme- 

 dial area and costal area to postmedial line suffused with fuscous and 

 irrorated with grey, some whitish suffusion beyond postmedial line ; 

 subbasal line double, curved, from costa to vein 1, above which there is a 

 whitish patch beyond it ; antemedial line double, somewhat inwardly 

 oblique, and bent inwards to inner magin, the inner line slightly angled 

 inwards in submedian fold ; claviform represented by a slight brown striga 

 at extremity ; orbicular defined by black, elliptical ; reniform with 

 greyish centre slightly defined by black, and whitish annular slightly 

 defined by black, constricted at middle ; an oblique dark striga from 

 middle of costa and faint incurved line from lower angle of cell to inner 

 margin ; postmedial line double filled in with whitish, the outer line indis- 

 tinct, bent outwards below costa, excurved to vein 4, then incurved and 

 slightly excurved at vein 1; the postmedial costal area blackish with oblique 

 outer edge, and some grey points on costa ; an indistinct minutely waved 

 brown subterminal line, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; a black 

 shade before termen from below apex to vein 3 ; a fine black terminal line ; 



