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on inner side by whitish; some whitish spot on costa before apex. 

 Hind wing whitish slightey suffused with brown towards outer margin; 

 cilia white with a fuscous waved line at middle. Underside of both 

 wings whitish, slightly suffused with brown. Expase: 40 mm. 

 Type: A male specimen from Japan, without locality. 



Subfamily Acronyctinae. 



Genus Bryophila. 

 Bryophila, Tr.; Hamson. Cat. Lep. Phal. VII. p. 618(1908). 



BryopMla mitsuhashi, n. sp. 

 §. Palpi black at sides; head tegulae and patagia sage green, fron« 

 with lateral black bars; thorax and abdomen grey-brown; pectus whitish; 

 legs blackish, tarsi ringed with white. Fore wing sage green, tinged 

 with reddish brown at centre and irrorated with black near base; subba?al 

 line black, waved from costa to vein 1 ; antemedialline black, oblique 

 from costa to subcostal nervure where it is sharply angled inwards, then 

 oblique and slightly sinuous to vein I, angled outerwards above inner 

 margin; claviform represented by a black streak on submedian fold, 

 orbicular large fuscous, tinged with sage green at its upper side, slightly 

 defined by red- brown, elliptical and conjoined with the antemedial 

 line at its inner upper edge; reniform large, fuscous, tinged with sago 

 green at the upper side, extending to vein 2, 

 slightly defined by black and red-brown; a minutely 

 dentate black postmedial line, arising from just 

 beyond the middle of costa, bent outwards below 

 costa, excurved to vein 3, then incurved, and 

 again excurved slightly at vein 1; a subterminal Flg * 4 * Br . vo i ,llll:l 



mitsnhashi, _£. —■ 



series of black spots, forming a streak on vein2. a 



