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from tlie submarginal line to the apex. Intei'ior line indistinct, undulate. A little ring in the middle of the 
cell, a larger one at the cross-vein is brown inside. Exterior line indistinct, slightly excurved behnv the costal 
margin. The oblique band at the apex is edged white above. vSubmarginal line indistinct, light, black streaks 
behind them between the veins. Hindwing slightly brownish. — The strong dark raflial band may also be 
shortened into a spot at the cell-end, or it may be qvate absent. 8uch specimens are called: polyhymniana potijhi/mni/i- 
Strd. and polyhymniodes Strd. 30—32 mm. Natal, Cape Colony. 
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12. Genus: ISryotliripa Hvifs. 
Proboscis normal, palpi thin, erected beyond the Irons. Antenna of G almost ])lain. Tufts as in the 
preceding genus. Vein 3 of forewing arises before the lower cell-angle, 4 and 5 from the angle, the rest normal. 
Vein 5 of hindwing a little above the angle as in the preceding genus. Only 1 species. 
B. miophaea Hmps. Thorax dark sap-green, abdomen dark brown. Forewing sap-gi'een, dusted black, miophaea. 
marking black. An oblique band from the base of the costal margin to the inner margin at vein 1, froiii there 
a faded band above the inner margin, widening a little towards the sid^marginal line. Interior line (jblique. 
undulate. A dot in the middle of the cell, a luna at the cross-vein and a dot below it. Exterior line indistinct, 
double, obliquely outwards as far as vein 4, strongly bent inwards below the cell. Hubmarginal line black, 
edged white outside. Hindwing dark brown. — The thorax and the forewing may also be more intensely 
black, the hindwing red-brown. We figure this form; it is called: transvaalensis Strd. (17 h). 24 mm. - Xigei- 
District, Soirth Africa. 
13. Genus: Ifirj^ophilopsis Hmps. 
This genus is entirely like the Bryophila in its exterior, and the only palaearctic species has also been 
described as ''Bryophila roederi” by Standpuss. It was already Warren (1909) who doubted whether the 
species belonged to the Bryophilids at all (Vol. Ill, p. 21). In 1912, Hampson placed it to the Indian type 
of his genus Bryophilopsis which was registered yet by Warren (1912) in Vol. Ill, ]). 291. Beside this Eu¬ 
ropean species two Indian forms'are known, one of which occurs in the Christmas I. All the other species are 
Ethiopian. — Proboscis normal, palpi very thin, erect. Antennae of d Avith long tiifts. Mesothorax and meta- 
thorax with a tuft, abdomen also with tufts. Neuration normal. Type: griseata Hmpt. from India. 
B. lunifera Hmps. (18 a). Body very pale red-brown, forewing pale red-brown. An oblique white lunifera. 
shadow from the costal margin near the apex to the lower cell-angle. Alarginal area darker red-brown in its 
anterior part. A black horizontally placed luna from below the middle of the costal margin to behind the 
lower cell-angle. Interior line absent. Reniform macula with a faded light margin. Exterior line white, bent 
inwards at the costal and inner margins, straight between them. Sul)marginal line black, only traceable in 
its anterior part. Hindwing white, broadly brown at the margin. 2 20 mm. Niger District. Descril^ed fi’om 
1 $ from Old Calabar. 
B. nesta B.-Flefch. (18 a). Body and forewing pale greyish brown, somewhat dark brown at the costal ne.'iiu. 
and distal margins. Interior line black, edged white inside, rectilinear, obliquely outwards as far as the sid)- 
median fold. The median area with a bent down black streak in the submedian fold. Reniform macula large, 
elliptical, edged with black, basad also edged with white besides. Exterior line double, black, filled with 
white, from the submedian fold only white. Costal margin white near the apex. Sidjinarginal line finely white, 
notched, faded black inside. Hindwing white. ^ 22 mm. Seychelles. 
B. hamula Sn. (18 a). Body brownish greyish-white. Forewing violet greyish-brown. Interior line lunnuhi. 
black, oblique as far as the sidjinedian fold, then indistinct. Behind it a black streak at the end of the median 
vein and a bent down streak to the exterior line in the submedian fold. Reniform macada brown, round, edged 
with white. Exterior line brown, edged white outside, excurved below the costal margin, then obliquely in¬ 
wards. An oblique white shadow from the a])ex to the exterior line, brown below it. 8ul)marginal line white, 
fadedly edged-dark inside. Blackish at the margin above the anal angle. Hindwing brownish white. 3 mm. 
Lower Guinea. 
B. tarachoides Mah. (18 a). Body and forewing brownish white. Whitish in the basal ai'ca except at tarachoidcs. 
the costal margin, whitish also a stripe from the apex to the reniform macula. Interior line strong, black, from 
^^3 costal margin obliquely outwards to the submedian fold, where it is more excurved as far as the exterior 
line. Reniform macula brownish with a white ring, very indistinct. Exterior line black, from the middle of 
the costal margin to vein 4 in a downward curve, then united with the interior line. 8ul>marginal line in¬ 
distinctly blackish, a black streak behind it at vein 2. Hindwing dia})hanous white. 20 mm. Niger District. 
East Africa, Madagascar. — We figure a s])ecimen from Dar-es-8alaam. 
B. curvifera Hmps. (18 a) is very similar to tarachoides. Forewing brow nish violet in the basal area, curviferu. 
somewhat ochreous from the cell-end to the a]jex. Interior line indiscernible, exterior line double, black. 
Dark browm below the light apical sti'ipe. 8ubmarginal line white. Black streaks beliind it at the margin of 
