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Sect. II. — Antennse of male ciliated. 

 1734fl. Bryotype mesomelana. 



Genus Bryomima. 



Type. 



Bryomima, Staud. Iris, xii., p. 857 (1899) . . ... . . carducha. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi obliquely upturned, the 2nd joint 

 fringed with hair, the 3rd short ; frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; 

 antennse of male ciliated or almost simple ; head and thorax clothed with 

 hair and a few scales mixed, without distinct crests ; tibise fringed 

 with long hair on outer side ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. 

 Forewing with the termen obliquely curved ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle 

 of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form the 

 areole ; 11 from cell. Hindwing with veins 3 - 4 from angle of cell ; 5 obso- 

 lescent from middle of discocellulars ; 6- 7 from upper angle ; 8 anastomo- 

 sing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. — Antennse of male with fasciculate cilia. 



A. Forewing with the ante- and postmedial lines filled 



in with whitish . . . . . . . . centralasice . 



B. Forewing with the ante- and postmedial lines not 



filled in with whitish. 



a. Forewing more or less tinged with ochreous . . chamceleon. 



b. Forewing olive-grey without ochreous tinge . . virescens. 

 1789. Bryomima centralasIjE. 



Polia centralasice, Staud. Stett. Ent. Zeit. xliii, p. 37 (1881) ; Alph. Hor. 

 Soc. Ent. Ross, xvii, p. 77, pi. 3, f . 54 ; Staud. Cat. Lep. Pal., p. 180. 



Hecatera transversa, Moore, Lep. Atk., p. 125 (1882). 

 „ modesta, Moore, Lep. Atk., p. 125 (1882). 



Polia asiatica, Alph. Stett. Ent. Zeit. 1887, p. 169 ; id. Rom. Mem. v., 

 p 156, pi. 6, f. 7. 



17896. Bryomima chameleon. 



Polia chamceleon, Alph. Stett. Ent. Zeit., 1887, p. 169 ; id. Rom. Mem. v., 

 p. 153, pi. 6, ff. 8.a.b. Staud. Cat. Lep. Pal., p. 180. 



Head and thorax grey tinged with olive-yellow and reddish brown ; 

 tegulse with slight dark medial line ; patagia with bluish fuscous line near 

 edges ; tarsi banded with fuscous ; abdomen grey tinged with ochreous and 

 brown and irrorated with fuscous. Forewing grey more or less suffused 

 with pale-reddish ochreous and thickly irrorated with fuscous ; subbasal 

 line represented by double black strise from costa and cell ; antemedial 

 line double, minutely waved, angled inwards on vein 1 ; claviform short 

 and broad, defined by black except above ; orbicular and reniform with 

 reddish annuli denned by black, both rather open above and below and 

 constricted at middle ; a rather diffused minutely waved medial line ; post- 



