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medial line slightly bent outwards below costa, then dentate, below vein 4 } 

 incurved to lower edge of reniform ; a reddish subterminal line defined on 

 inner side by small dentate blackish marks below costa and at middle, and 

 with slight blue-grey suffusion beyond it, slightly angled outwards at vein 

 7 and excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black points ; cilia ochreous 

 with a fuscous line through them. Hindwing ochreous nearly uniformly 

 suffused with fuscous ; cilia ochreous with a fuscous line through them ; 

 the underside whitish irrorated with fuscous, the costal area tinged with 

 ochreous, a discoidal lunule, a diffused irregular postmedial line showing 

 through to upperside, some fuscous suffusion on termen. 



Habitat. — W. Ttjrkistan ; E. Turkistan ; Kashmir, Barra Larcha, Koksu 

 Kiu jar ; Punjab, Kulu. Exp. 48 mill. 



1798. Bryomima virescens. 



Genus Blepharidia. 



Type. 



Blepharidia, Pung. Iris, xiii., p. 122 (1900) . . . . . . lama. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint fringed with 

 long hair in front ; frons smooth ; eyes large, rounded ; antennas of male 

 typically minutely serrate and fasciculate ; head and thorax clothed with 

 hair and hair-like scales, the pro- and metathorax with spreading crests ; 

 tibise fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crest at base only. Fore- 

 wing with the termen crenulate ; 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 obsolescent from 

 middle of discocellulars ; 6- 7 shortly stalked ; 8 anastomosing with the cell 

 near base only. 



Sect. III. — Antennae of male minutely serrate and fasciculate. 



1794a. Blepharidia paspa. 



Trigonophora grami, Alph. Hor. Soc. Ent. Ross, xxvi., p. 449 (1892) nee. 

 p. 447 ; id. Rom. Mem. ix., p. 29, pi. 1, f . 8 ; Stand. Cat. Lep. Pal., p. 184. 



Blepharidia paspa, Piing. Iris, xiii, p. 123 (1900). 



Head and thorax red-brown ; tarsi dark brown with pale rings ; abdomen 

 ochreous brown. Forewing red-brown ; the postmedial area brownish 

 ochreous ; subbasal line double, waved, from costa to submedian fold, with 

 a greyish patch beyond it above vein 1, with black streak below it above 

 inner margin ; antemedial line double filled in with greyish, oblique, 

 slightly waved, bent inwards to inner margin ; claviform small, defined by 

 black ; orbicular and reniform small, with brown centres and whitish annuli 

 defined by black, the former oblique, rather oblong, the latter narrow, open 

 above and below ; an indistinct medial line, oblique from costa to lower 

 angle of cell ; postmedial line indistinctly double, filled in with ochreous, 

 bent outwards below costa, then minutely waved, very oblique below vein 

 4, some whitish points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line whitish, defined 



