BRTOPHILA. 641 



blackish antemedial line escurved to median nervure, angled inwards 

 just below cell, then again excurved ; orbicular and reniforra 

 indistinctly defined by blackish, the former round, the latter con- 

 stricted at middle ; postmedial line whitish with blackish marks on 

 inner side at costa, discal and submediau folds, strongly excurved 

 from costa to vein 4, then strongly incurved, some Avhitish points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminalline whitish, excurved below vein 7 

 and at middle and incurved at discal and snbmedian folds ; a 

 terminal series of minute black points ; cilia with a whitish line at 

 base. Hiud wing white tinged with brown especially on terminal 

 area ; cilia pure white ; the underside white tinged with brown, 

 a small brown discoidal spot and faint curved postmedial line. 



Ab. 1. sordida. Fore wing darker, often almost uniform leaden 

 grey. 



Ab. 2. ruhellina. Fore wing pale reddish. 



Bah. CrPKus {Miss Bate), I S, 1 $ ; Aemenia. ; Asia Minor, 

 Sira I, Magnesia (Lederer), 6 c? , 7 $ ; Pontus, Taurus ; Persia ; 

 W. Turkestan, Turcoraania, Schahkuh (Christoff), 1 ^^ , 1 5, 

 Ferghana, Sarawschan, Issyk Kul ; Tibet, Kuku-noor. Exj^. 

 22-26 millim. 



*3527. BryopMla paulina. (Plate CXXII. fig. 26.) 

 Bryophila paulina, Stand. Iris, iv. p. 265 (1891) ; id. Cat. Lep. pal. p. 167. 



5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen pale ochreous ; palpi whitish ; 

 antennae ringed with black at base; tarsi sHghtly ringed with 

 fuscous. Fore wing pale ochreous irrorated with a few black scales, 

 the inner half of medial area more thickly irrorated ; subbasal line 

 blackish, excurved, from costa to vein 1 ; antemedial line fine, black, 

 oblique, sinuous ; claviform slightly defined by black, extending to 

 cell; orbicular defined by black except above and with its centre 

 defined by black, rather elliptical ; reniform faintly defined and its 

 centre faintly defined by black scales, constricted at middle ; a 

 medial black point ou costa and a sinuous line from lower angle of 

 cell to inner margin ; postmedial line with black point on costa, 

 then slight, bent outwards below costa, oblique to vein 4, then 

 strongly incurved and sinuous, some dark points beyond it on cof^ta : 

 subterminal line blackish, diffused and interrupted, excurved below 

 vein 7 and at middle and angled inwards at discal and submedian 

 folds ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing ochreous 

 white, the termen slightly tinged with red-brown ; cilia white 

 the underside white with a faint yellowish tinge. 



Hah. Sybia ; Palestine, Jerusalem in Coll. Piingeler. Exp. 

 26 miilim. 



.3528. Bryophila ochrota, n. sp. (Plate CXXII. fig. 27.) 



Head and thorax white tinged with brown ; 2nd joint of palpi 

 with blackish patch at sides ; tarsi banded with blackish ; abdomen 

 VOL. vii. 2t 



