300 



NOCTUID^!. 



1983. Bryophila pallidisca, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 372, pi. 37, fig. 14 : 



C. 8r S. no. 1802. 

 Erastria albiorbis, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 141 ; C. $ S. no. 1795. 

 Erastria fusca, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 141 ; C. fy S. no. 1797. 

 Erastria nubila, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 142 ; C. 8f 8. no. 1801. 



Bed-brown. Fore wing with subbasal, antemedial, postmedial, 

 and submarginal irregularly waved, dark lines, with fuscous 

 suffusion before the antemedial and beyond the postmedial line ; 

 orbicular and reniform large. Hind wing white, with slight fuscous 

 suffusion on outer margin. 



The typical form has large white patches on orbicular and lower 

 part of reniform. 



Hah. Sikhiin. Exp. 30 millim. 



1984. Bryophila glaucescens, Butt. III. Ret vii, p. 81, pi. 133, fig. 4. 

 Anophia undara, Swinh. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1890, p. 234. 



Dark purple-grey variegated with black. Eore wing with double 

 subbasal, antemedial, and postmedial waved black lines ; the 

 medial area dark, with a small orbicular spot and large reniform 

 with orange spot on it ; an irregularly dentate submarginal line 

 and marginal crenulate line. Hind wing dark fuscous. 



Hah. Dharmsala ; Bangoon. Exp. 24 millim. 



1985. Bryophila glaucostigma, n. sp. 



$ . Palpi black at sides ; head and thorax reddish brown ; 

 abdomen fuscous. Eore wing fuscous brown ; the subbasal waved 

 line with a pale and dark patch beyond it below median nervure ; 

 the antemedial line approaching the postmedial below the cell; 

 the orbicular and reniform pale ; the submarginal line pale, with 

 irregular dark dashes before it ; a series of marginal black specks ; 

 cilia intersected by pale streaks. Hind wing pale, suffused with 

 fuscous towards outer margin. Underside pale ; both wings with 

 crenulate postmedial line ; hind wing with cell-spot. 



Hah. E. Pegu, 5000 feet (Doherty). Exp. 34 millim. Type in 

 coll. Elwes. 



Genus ERASTRIA. 



Erastria, Ochs. Eur. Schmett. iv, p. 92 (1816). 

 Motama, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 110 (1882). 



Type, E. fasciana, Linn., from Europe. 



Range. JSTearctic and Palsearctic regions ; China ; Himalayas ; 

 Assam Hills ; Ceylon ; Java. 



Palpi upturned, reaching above vertex of head, the 2nd joint 

 clothed with long hair below, the 3rd prominent ; antennas 

 minutely ciliated in male ; thorax roughly scaled but without tufts ; 

 abdomen with strong dorsal tufts, and shorter than the hind wing. 



