S. Mahunka szerk.: Folia Entomologica Hungarica 56. (Budapest, 1995)

covered with silvery, bluish- or greenish-grey scales. Medial field darker blackish-grey. Transversal lines double, their inner parts heavily marked, zigzag-like. Reniform and orbicular large, regular, light ochraceous grey, often with diffuse darker filling. Claviform obsolescent. Subterminal line obsolescent, regularly with 2-3 blackish-grey arrowheads. Fringes dark grey, dissected by ochraceous spots at the ends of the veins. The general impression of the forewings is a very irrorate one. Hindwings nearly unicolorous brownishgrey with some ochraceous scales. The darker medial and the lighter subterminal lines obsolescent. Fringe ochraceous grey. Underside of wings dull ochraceous grey with dense blackish-grey suffusion on the forewings and with darker medial lines on the hindwings (Figs 1-3). Male and female genitalia display the same basic features as those of the nominotypic subspecies from NE Afghanistan. Some differentiating features are given in the discussion. Figs 5-8. Bryopolia tsvetaevi hissaricola ssp. n. 5 = paratype male, genital capsula; 6 = dto, aedeagus with everted vesica, 7 = paratype female, genitalia, 8 = dto, protuberances of sternite VIII;