616 NOCTIJIDiK. 



*3494. Bryomcea melachlcra. 



Bryomola melachlora, Staud. Eom. Mem. vi. p. 397, pi. v. f. 10 (1892) ; 

 id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 107. 



S . Head blackish ; thorax blackish mixed with whitish ; pectus 

 white ; fore and mid legs brown and white, hind legs white, the 

 tarsi blackish ringed with white ; abdomen white irrorated with 

 blackish. Pore wing with the basal half black-brown, the terminal 

 half white irrorated with a few black scales ; a white spot in base 

 of cell ; subbasal line black defined on outer side by pale yellow- 

 green, waved, from costa to vein 1, a green streak beyond it in 

 submedian fold ; antemedial line black defined on inner side by 

 pale yellow-green, waved ; orbicular with black-brown centre and 

 white annulus incomplete above and below, lai'ge, round ; reniform 



Y\g.\^>0.--Bryoviceavielachlora,S- i- 



defined by black, strongly constricted at middle; a faint green 

 tinge in, beyond, and below end of cell ; postmedial line indistinct, 

 black, obsolescent except at costa and below vein 2, strongly bent 

 outwards below costa, then minutely waved, excurved to vein 4, 

 then strongly incurved, a slight brown shade on costa towards 

 apex ; sub terminal line represented by a slight striga from costa, 

 then by a series of slight streaks. Hind wing whitish suffused 

 with fuscous brown leaving some whitish on termen except towards 

 apex ; cilia white mixed with some fuscous ; the underside white 

 irrorated with fuscous, a black discoidal lunule, diffused postmedial 

 line oblique from costa to vein 6, then inwardly oblique, and traces 

 of subterminal shade. 



Hal). E. SiBEKiA, Ussuri, Kasakewitsch in Coll. Piingeler. Exp. 

 22 millim. 



Genus MIONIDES. ^^^^^ 



Mionides, Hmpsn. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. ii. p. 281 (1902) lichenea. 



Proboscis absent; palpi slender, obliquely porreet, extending to just beyond 

 fi'ons and fringed with hair below ; frons with rounded prominence with 

 corneous plate below it ; eyes large, round ; antenna3 of male with fascicles of 

 long cilia ; thorax clothed chiefly with scales and without distinct crests ; build 

 .slender ; tibia; moderately fringed with hair ; abdomen with dorsal crests on 

 basal segments. Fore wing long and narrow, the apex rounded, the termen 

 obhqaely curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from near angle of cell ; 

 r; from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form tlie areole ; Jl 

 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell ; .5 obsolescent from 

 just below middle of discocellnlars ; (>, 7 strongly stalked; 8 anastomosing 

 with the cell near base only. 



