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cilia grey and fuscous with a dark line through them. Hindwing white, 

 the veins and terminal area tinged with brown ; cilia white, tinged with 

 brown at apex and with slight brown marks at middle; the underside white; 

 the costa and terminal area to vein 2 irrorated with brown, a small dis- 

 coidal spot and sineous postmedial line. 



ab. 1. ereptricula. Forewing darker, the basal area diffused with white, 

 the terminal area with diffused white spots towards costa and tornus. 



ab. 2. vandalusioe . Forewing much greyer ; hindwing white in male. 

 Spain, Asia Minor, Mesopotamia. 



ab. 3. Similar, but forewing with the antemedial area rufous. Syria. 



Habitat. — Europe ; Algeria ; Asia Minor ; Syria ; Mesopotamia ; 

 Kashmir, Dana. Ex^j. 24-30 mill. 



Larva. — Kirby, Butt, and Moths. Eur. p. 160 ; Hffm. Raup., p. 77. 



Blue with a black dorsal line and yellowish red lateral stripe defined 

 below by black. Food plants : Lichens on Walls. 5-6. 



19745. Bryophila ochrota. 



BryophUa ochrota, Hmpsn., Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M. vii., p. 641, pi. 122, f . 27 

 (1908). 



Head and thorax white tinged with brown ; 2nd joint of palpi with 

 blackish patch at sides ; tarsi banded with blackish ; abdomen ochre- 

 ous white with dorsal brownish bands. Forewing ochreous white mostly 

 suffused with brown and irrorated with fuscous, the medial area rather 

 darker ; subbasal line indistinctly double filled in with whitish and with 

 some rufous scales on it, from costa to submedian fold ; antemedial line 

 indistinctly double tilled in with whitish and with some rufous on outer 

 line, bent inwards to costa, then minutely waved ; claviform with its ex- 

 tremity faintly defined by blackish ; orbicular and reniform with brownish 

 centres and slight whitish annuli faintly defined by blackish, the former 

 round, the latter somewhat constricted at middle; traces of a waved medial 

 line from cell to inner margin ; postmedial line double filled in with whitish, 

 some rufous on the inner line, bent outwards below costa, strongly excurv- 

 ed to vein 4, then strongly incurved, some white points beyond it on costa ; 

 traces of a pale minutely waved subterminal line below vein 3 ; a terminal 

 series of minute dark lunules defined on inner side by slight pale lunules ; 

 cilia with a slight whitish line through them. Hindwing white, faintly 

 tinged with brown ; cilia pure white ; the underside white faintly tinged 

 with brown. 



Habitat. — ^Kashmir, Dras ; Beloochistan, Quetta. Eqy. 26 mill. 



Genus Iambia. 



Type. 



Iambia wk, xxvii. 109 (1863) . . . . . . inferalis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about 

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