BRYOPHILA. 297 



Palpi slender and upturned, the third joint reaching above 

 vertex of head ; antenua? minutely ciliated ; thorax with slight 

 tufts behind collar ; abdomen with slight dorsal tufts, and longer 

 than the hind wing ; legs hairy. 



Larvce with four pairs of abdominal prolegs. 



1972. Bryophila literata, Moore, P. Z. 8. 1881, p. 331 ; C. $ S. 



no. 1775. 



Head and thorax w T hite, irrorated with black scales ; abdomen 

 fuscous white, the dorsal tufts black. Fore wing white suffused 

 with black ; a waved blackish subbasal band edged by black lines ; 



a broad medial blackish band 

 narrowing to inner margin, the 

 double waved antemedial black 

 and white line forming its inner 

 edge; the stigmata indistinct, 

 with a pale round spot between 

 the orbicular and reniform ; the 

 Fig. 162. waved double black and white 



Bryophila literata, $ . \. postmedial line excurved beyond 



the cell; a submarginal waved 

 line with diffused black on its inner edge ; cilia chequered white 

 and fuscous. Hind wing fuscous, with indistinct cell-spot and 

 postmedial line ; cilia white, spotted with fuscous. 

 Hab. N.W. Himalayas. Exp., d 32, $ 36 millim. 



1973. Bryophila modesta, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 332 ; C. $ S. 



no. 1777. 



5 . Differs from literata in being wholly suffused with dirty 



ochreous brown. Fore wing with the markings fuscous and 



indistinct ; the ante- and postmedial lines dentate. Hind wing 



fuscous brown; underside with the postmedial line almost obsolete. 



Hab. Simla. Exp. 30 millim. 



1 974. Bryophila virescens, n. sp. 



S . Differs from literata in the ground-colour of the thorax and 

 fore wing being pale blue-green ; a black streak between the sub- 

 basal and antemedial lines below median nervure ; a prominent 

 submarginal series of irregularly placed black marks. 



Hab. Dalhousie {Harford). Exp. 26 millim. Type in B. M. 



1975. Bryophila lichenea, Hmpsn. III. Het. viii, p. 72, pi. 144, fig. 12. 



Differs from literata in the head, thorax, and fore wing being 

 evenly suffused with fuscous ; hind wing with the cilia wholly 

 white ; the broken band on underside submarginal instead of 

 postmedial. 



Hab. Nilgiri plateau. Exp. 30 millim. 



