618 



NOCTTJID-i:. 



and thicklj- irrorated with black ; subbasal line black, rather dif- 

 lused, curved, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line black, rather 

 diffused, defined by diffused white on inner side except towards 

 costa, oblique, somevphat dentate and angled outwards in submedian 

 interspace ; claviform absent ; orbicular and reniform moderate, 

 fuscous defined by blackish, the former round ; traces of a medial 

 shade oblique from costa to median nervure, then incurved ; post- 

 medial line black, rather diffused, defined on outer side by diffused 

 white except towards costa, strongly bent outwards below costa, 



Poliobrya -patula, 



then minutely dentate, slightly incurved at discal fold and strongly 

 below vein 4, bent outwards to inner margin, some white points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line whitish defined on inner side 

 by diffused rather dentate blackish marks, angled outwards at 

 vein 7 and slightly excurved at middle ; a terminal series of black 

 striae wdth small white lunules before them ; cilia whitish mixed 

 with fuscous and with blackish line through them. Hind wing 

 white tinned with brown especially on basal half ; an oblique dark 

 discoidal bar, a diffused ])ostmedial line oblique below vein 4 and 

 diffused subterminal band ; the extremities of the veins with slight 

 dark streaks ; cilia white with blackish line near base ; the under- 

 side irrorated with fuscous. 



Hah. E. TuEKESTAN, Korla, Saichin-Kette, type t S in Coll. 

 Plingeler. Exp. 36 millim. 



Genus BRYOPHILA. 



Type. 

 Poecilia, Scbrant, Faun. Boica, ii. (2) ]x 1.57 (1802), nee El. 



Sch. Pisces, 1801 murcdis. 



Bryojjhila, Tr. Schmett. Eur. v. ( 1 ) p. 67 (1825) muralis. 



Metachrostis, Hiibn. Verz. p. 204 ( 1 827) muralis. 



Euthales, Hiibn. Verz. p. 205 (1827) algcB. 



Cri/phia, Hiibn. Verz. p. 205 (1827) receptricula. 



Jaspidea, Hiibn. Tent, ined algcs. 



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

 vertex of head and moderately fringed with hair in front, the 3rd rather long ; 

 irons smooth; eyes large, round; antennas of male ciliated; build slender; 

 1 borax clothed almo?t entirely with scales, the prothorax without distinct crest, 

 the raetathorax with spreading crest; tibiae moderately fringed with hair; 

 abdomen witli dorsal series of crests on basal segments. Fore wing witii the 

 apex rounded, the' termen evenly curved, crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from near 

 angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to foi-m 

 the areole; 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle of cell; 

 6 obsolescent from middle of discocellulars ; G, 7 from upper angle; S anasto- 

 mosing with the cell near base only. 



