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BOMOLOCHA. By W. Warren. 



marked hiodwi g grey. Scinde and Goorais Vallies, Kashmir, 

 on median vein is characteristic. 



The dark pale-edged curve of the outer line 



sagiilata. R. sagittata Btlr. (73 c). Forewing whitish, suffused throughout with dull purplish grey; the base 



and inner margin below median, the terminal edge, amd the costal area before apex, alone remaining pale; 

 inner line obscure, apparently angled on submedian fold, and followed by a diffuse dark spot in cell; outer 

 line double, dark puiplish, angled beyond cell, preceded,' and also filled in just above median vein, by some 

 white scaling; a deep purplish fuscous shade oblique from apex to before outer line on inner margin, dif- 

 fused over outer area, but leaving the termen itself pale; subterminal line pale grey, distinct only in lower 

 half; dark terminal lunules above middle; fringe purplish grey, with a pale line at base; hind wing brownish 

 grey. W. China. 



angulala. R. angulata Walk. Forewing fawn colour^ with a white discal dot and a white^ angular stripe, 



which ends at a little beyond the point, and is there connected with the end of a diffuse whitish streak, 

 which extends to the tip of the wing; a white hardly undulating subterminal line nearly parallel to termen, 

 and having between it and the first line some slight short streaks composed of black speckles ; termen whitish 

 hindward; terminal points brown; hindwing fawn grey. Described from India; a single $ specimens is 

 recorded by Leech from Changyang, Central China. 



8oricalis. R. soricalis Piing. $ forewing brownish grey with slight dark dusting; inner line faint or obsolete; 



median thick, erect, not reaching costa; subterminal obscure, parallel to termen, white-edged outwardly; 

 hindwing pale grey, without markings; $ darker and browner. Aksu, E. Turkestan. 



117. Genus: Bomolocha Hbn. 



Allied to Hyfena, from which it is separated by the shorter stouter palpi, by the eyes being fringed 

 with cilia, and by the dorsum, in the <J especially, being strongly tufted from base to middle. Type B. fontis 

 Thnbg. The larva of the type species feeds on Erica, pupates in autumn, and emerges the following summer. 



Sect. I. Forewings broad. 



fontis. B. fontis Thnbg. (= crassalis F., achatalis Hbn.) (73 c). Forewing with basal two-thirds dark chocolate 



brown, limited by the pale outer line, which is oblique and concave outwards to vein 5, there strongly 

 angled, and sinuous inwards to inner margin beyond middle, meeting on vein 1 an oblique line from base of 

 median vein; the area below it pale with bright brown suffusion in (J, chalk white with faint discoloration 

 in $; terminal area grey in <$, chalk white in $; subterminal line formed of interrupted fuscous lunules tipped 

 with white in the $ and preceded by brown suffusion; in the $ merely a row of dark spots; an oblique thick 

 brown streak from apex ; a row of black terminal triangular spots ; a dark dot in cell and lunule at its end ; 

 tenicularis. hindwing dark brownish fuscous with a ruddy tinge in $, greyish white or pale fuscous in $; the ab. terri- 

 cularis Hbn. is a nearly black form of the $ with a few terminal white markings. Larva green with the 

 lines darker; feeding on Erica. Throughout Central and Northern Europe, Italy, and Armenia. 



zilla. B. zilla Btlr. (73 c). Resembles fontis, but the brown of basal area paler; the outer line whiter, more 



prominently projecting as a blunt tooth at vein 5, and more obliquely bisinuate to inner margin; inner line 

 faintly angled below costa, then oblique inwards to median vein, and again outwards and white to vein 1 ; 

 the brown median area reaching inner margin; subterminal line pale, without black lunules, but preceded 

 by a brown cloud on costa and above inner margin; an oblique brown streak from apex; ground colour grey 

 in both sexes; hindwing fuscous. The Japanese representative of fontis; occurs also in Amurland, Ussuri, and 

 Corea. 



etygiana. B. stygiana Btlr. (73 c, d). Forewing dark chocolate brown to beyond middle, limited by a white outer 



line, which forms a distinct projecting tooth outwards above vein 5, and is then bisinuate to inner margin; 

 basal area not quite so dark, limited by the inner line, which is whitish, mangled on median vein and ending 

 on vein 1 ; terminal area pale grey, darker beyond subterminal line, which is indistinct except at costa and 

 inner margin; a dark oblique shade from apex; hindwing dark fuscous. Found in Japan, Yesso, Kiushiu, 

 Corea, and E. China. 





