BEYOPniLA. 621 



lAK Fore wing with the postmedial line slightlj' incurved 



at discal fold j^etrea. 



cp. Hind wing uniform dark brown. 



«3. Fore wing without bbick streaks in submedian fold, 



on medial area, and beyond postmedial line felina. 



Ifi. Fore wing with black streaks in submedian fold, on 

 medial area, and beyond postmedial line. 

 «''. Fore wing with the postmedial line oblique from 



below costa to vein 6 granitalis. 



b*. F'ore wing with the postmedial line strongly ex- 

 curved from below costa to vein 4 iMlliola. 



3497. BryopMla nilgiria. (Plate CXXII. fig. 10.) 



BryopMla nilglria, Moore. P. Z. S. 1881, p. 332 ; Hmpsn. Moths Ind. ii. 

 p. 298. 



Head white ; palpi black except at tips ; antennae ringed with 

 black ; thorax white mixed with pale red-brown and some black, 

 the patagia edged with black scales, the prothorax with paired 

 black points; pectus and legs white, the tibiae and tarsi banded 

 with black ; abdomen white dorsally suiiused with black-brown 

 leaving white segmental lines. Fore wing white tinged in parts 

 with pale olive-brown and irrorated with a few black scales; sub- 

 basal line strong, black, excurved below subcostal nervure and 

 ending at vein 1 ; antemedial line black, oblique, waved ; claviform 

 defined by black below and iX extremity, extending to median 

 nervure ; orbicular and reniform defined by black, the former small, 

 round, the latter open above, extending to well below cell and 

 expanding at lower extremity ; two black bars from middle of 

 costa and a striga from inner margin ; postmedial line double, the 

 outer line indistinct and very incomplete, slightly bent outwards 

 below costa, angled outwards at vein 6, then minutely waved, 

 oblique to vein 4, then bent inwards to below end of cell, some 

 alternating black and white points beyond it on costa ; subtcrminal 

 line hardly traceable, white, defined on inner side by some brownish 

 suifusion on costal area and by black points below veins 7 and 4, 

 some brownish suff'usion beyond it irom below costa to vein 4, 

 a brownish streak on terminal area below vein 2 ; a terminal series 

 of small black lunules ; cilia chequered black and white. Hind 

 wing fuscous black, the basal area whitish ; an indistinct curved 

 postmedial line defined by whitish on outer side ; cilia white inter- 

 sected with black at the veins ; the underside white, the basal area 

 suffused with brown to below cell, the costal area slightlv irrorated 

 with black to the strong curved maculate black postmedial line. 



Hah. Max)E.\s, Kilgiris {Hampson), 4 c5' , 4 $, type. Exp. 

 32-36 millim. 



Larva. Head pale red with black markings ; body dark olive- 

 brown sparsely clothed with short whitish hairs, the 2nd to anal 

 somites with white transverse lines on subdorsal area; all the somites 

 with prominent white spots on dorsal and lateral areas; ventral 

 prolegs retractile. Food-plants ; Lichens. ( W. H. Campbell) 



