628 NOCTTTIDiE. 



and much interrupted, dark, waved ; a terminal series of blackish 

 striae ; cilia white, chequered with olive-yellow and black at base. 

 Hind wing white tinged and irrorated with fuscous ; a faint dis- 

 coidal lunule ; cilia white with a faint fuscous line through them ; 

 the underside with the discoidal lunule more prominent, an in- 

 distinct diffused sinuous postmedial line, 



2 . Fore wing more uniformly irrorated with fuscous, the 

 markings less distinct. , 



Rab. U.S.A., California (CocJcerell), 1 S , Doble, co-type f $ in 

 Coll. J. B. Smith. E.V2). S 26, $ 30 millim. 



3506, BryopMla lichenea. 



Eryophila lichenea, Hnipsti. 111. Het. B. M. viii. p. 72, pi. 144. f. 12 (1891) ; 

 id. Moths Ind. ii. p. 297. 



Head and thorax greenish white mixed with black-brown ; palpi 

 brown at base ; antennae black ringed with white ; tegulge edged 

 with black; pectus and legs white, the fore tibias and the tarsi 

 banded with black ; abdomen white dorsally suffused with fuscous 

 leaving slight white segmental lines. Fore wing greenish white 

 irrorated with black ; subbasal line strong, black, curved, from 

 costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line black, oblique, excurved in cell, 

 then slightly sinuous ; claviform defined by blackish ; orbicular 

 very indistinctly defined by blackish and with blackish centre ; 

 reniform defined by black on inner side and very faintly on outer, 

 large, constricted at middle ; a slight dark medial shade from costa 

 to median nervure ; postmedial line double, the outer line indistinct 

 on inner half, strongly bent outwards below costa, then minutely 

 waved, oblique to vein 3, then incurved, some fuscous suffusion 

 beyond it on costal area with pale points on costa ; subterminal line 

 hardly traceable except on costal area where it is defined by the 

 dark suffusion, angled outwards at vein 7, then minutely waved ; a 

 terminal series of small black lunulas ; cilia with series of blackish 

 lunules at base and small dark spots at tips. Hind wing fuscous, 

 whitish at base ; cilia white with a faint dark line near base; the 

 underside white slightly irrorated with brown, a blackish discoidal 

 spot, diffused curved postmedial line and terminal series of small 

 lunules. 



Ab. 1. Fore wing less strongly irrorated with black and with 

 strong black medial shade from costa to median nervure. 



Hah. Madkas, Nilgiris {Lindsay, Hamjpson), Id', 4 $ , type. 

 Ex^o. 28-30 millim. 



3507. Biyophila literata. (Plate CXXII. fig. 16.) 



Bryopldla litcraia, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p 331 ; Hiiapsii. Moths Ind. ii. 

 p. 297. 



Head and thorax white ; palpi black with the extremities of 2nd 

 and 3rd joints white ; antennae blackish ; tegulae with black line at 

 base and black tips ; patagia edged with black mesothorax with a 



