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BRYOPHILA. By W. Warren. 
In the Palaearctic Fauna, following the then generally accepted date of Hubner’s Verzeichniss, I called 
this subfamily Metachrostinae from its single genus Metachrostis Him .; but now that the end of the year 1826 is 
generally received as its earliest possible date, Treitschke’s names of 1825 must have priority; so adopting 
the more happily named Bryophila for the genus I call the subfamily Bryophilinae. 
1. Genus: l5i\voi>liila Tr. 
The same distinctions as the Subfamily. 
albipuncta. B. albipuncta Hmps. (4h). Forewing rufous overlaid with fuscous brown below middle of central area5 
inner line double, black filled in with dark fuscous, obliquely waved and inbent on submedian fold; outer line 
outcurved, double, black filled in with rufous and with white points on the lower veins; stigmata with dark 
centres and rufous annuli; a dark median shade marked on costa between them; submarginal line indistinct; 
hindwing grey with brown suffusion, which is deeper towards apex. Described from a $ from Sikkim, N. India; 
also recorded from W. China. 
excurvata. B. excurvata Hmps. (4 h). Forewing pale ochreous, tinged with rufous, the basal area and a broad 
patch beyond cell dark brown; inner line black, pale-edged internally, obliquely curved from costa to middle 
of inner margin; outer line obscurely double and filled in with whitish, minutely dentate and excurved to near 
termen; the narrow terminal area coppery brown, the apex dark brown and a triangular terminal patch below 
it; orbicular stigma small and round; reniform with dark centre and whitish annulus; hindwing brownish, paler 
at base. Described by Hampson from a single $ from Sikkim, N. India. 
vilgiria. B. nilgiria Moore (4 h). Forewing greenish white tinged with pale olive brown in parts and dusted 
with black scales; lines all black, and wavy; the inner oblique, the outer conspicuously lunulate dentate 
and well outcurved; orbicular stigma small, round; reniform large, 8-shaped, extending to below cell; both 
black-edged, and separated by a dark median shade; submarginal line pale with brownish clouds on each side and 
some black spots before it; fringe greenish chequered with black; hindwing blackish, towards base whitish; 
a darker outer lino and terminal cloud; fringe white intersected with black. Larva olive brown with short sparse 
whitish hairs; each segment with transverse white streaks on subdorsal area, and with conspicuous white spots 
on dorsum and at sides; head pale red, spotted with black; feeding on lichens. Nilgiri Hills. 
deceplura. B. deceptura Walk. (= postochrea Hmps.) (4 h). Forewing whitish with fuscous and black irroration; 
median area below cell and the postmedian area fuscous brown; inner line black, oblique and excurved between 
veins, preceded by another black line from base of costa to above vein 1; outer line black, dentate, outcurved; 
submarginal line white, dentate, between two black dentate lines; a diffused fuscous band before termen, inter¬ 
rupted below middle; median shade waved; claviform stigma black-edged, reaching median shade; orbicular 
and reniform whitish defined by black, dark at centres; fringe white with black spots; hindwing ochreous yellow 
perfusa. washed with fuscous; a dark cellspot, outer line, and broad terminal border. Ceylon; Madras; the ab. perfusa ab. nov. 
( = ab. 1 Hmps.) has the whole median area of fort wing and the whole of hindwing suffused with fuscous. 
Uehenea. B. lichettea Hmps. (4h). Forewing greenish white with some black irroration; subbasal line strongly 
marked, black, curved, reaching from costa to vein 1; inner line black, oblique, sinuous; median shade slight, 
from costa to middle; outer line double, the outer arm obscure below middle, strongly bent outwards below 
costa, then minutely waved, oblique to vein 3, then incurved, followed on costa by dark suffusion; subterm¬ 
inal line hardly traceable except in the dark costal shade; a terminal row of dark lunules; the three stigmata 
defined by black; the orbicular witli black, centre; the reniform constricted at middle; fringe with a row of black 
lunules at base and black dots at tips; hindwing fuscous with the base pale; fringe white with a slight dark line 
mcdinlis. near base; in the ab. medialis ab. nov. (= ab. 1 Hmps.) the ground colour is clearer, being less irrorated with 
black, the median shade from costa to middle black and strongly marked. The Nilgiri hills, Madras, S. India. 
Viter at a. B. literata Moore (Vol. 3, PI. 4 h). Forewing greenish white with sparse black irroration; the subbasal area, 
the median area except beyond cell, and the postmedian area along costa suffused with black; subbasal line 
black, double at costa; inner line double, oblique and minutely waved, outwardly toothed on vein 1, its inner 
arm plain only below middle; outer line double with black spots at costa, bent at vein 4; subterminal line de¬ 
fined by dark suffusion, with minute black teeth on its inner edge, ending at vein 1; terminal line black, waved; 
fringe with black spots at base and black brown spots at tips; claviform stigma with a dark mark at extremity; 
orbicular and reniform black-edged, the former round, with the centre dark; a round white spot with black 
round it between them in cell; hinclwing white, the terminal half fuscous from costa to vein 3; a slight cell- 
spot, diffusely sinuous outer line, and cloudy subterminal band. Occurs in the Punjab, N. India; also in Kashmir. 
