302 NOVTTATES ZOOLOGICAE XXIV. 1917, 



24. Berta poppaea spec. nov. 



(J 9, 23 mm. Shape and structure about as in acte Swinh. (hindlegs lost 

 in the only cJ). Head and body olivaceous ; vertex only very narrowly and 

 inconspicuously white in front. Base of antenna white. 



Forewing with costa arched, termen shghtly curved ; SC anastomosing 

 strongly -with C, well free from SC ; dull olivaceous, costal edge narrowly 

 ochreous ; antemedian line white, indistinct, indicated chiefly by two slender 

 outward curves (in cell and between M and SM-) ; two white dots on disco- 

 cellulars, that on DC the larger, somewhat elongate ; a slender, zigzag white 

 postmedian line, broken up into dots and small lunules, its position and general 

 course about as in lodis annulifera Warr., the lunule bet\\'een JM- and SBP rather 

 thick ; termen with white dots at ends of veins, the anterior ones small, the posterior 

 elongate. Hindwing similar, with the cell-dots almost or altogether obsolete. 



Mount Wuchi, Hainan, May 1903. S (type) and 2 $? in coll. Tring Museum. 



No other Oriental Berta shows so little white marking. Structurally, this 

 species, acte, and annulifera suggest transitions between this genus and lodis. 



25. Berta subrectistriga spec. nov. 



(?, 25 mm. Structure about as in acte Swinh., third joint of palpus slightly 

 longer in proportion. Face olivaceous. Palpus olivaceous above, white beneath. 

 Vertex narrowly and rather irregularly white ; occiput olivaceous. Thorax 

 and abdomen ;:bove olivaceous, with large white spots, which decrease in size 

 posteriorly; b neath mostly white. Legs olivaceous, on inner side white. 



Forewimj shaped nearly as in acte or with costal and distal margins still 

 straighter ; olivaceous ; white markings proximaUy to the postmedian nearly 

 as in chrysolineata Walk., the compound cell-mark broader, especially in its 

 posterior half, less 8-shaped, in that its outer and inner sides do not touch in 

 the middle ; a white postmedian band, straightish on its outer edge (shghtly 

 more oblique than termen), throwing out broad and deep, fairly uniform, inter- 

 neural teeth proximally ; subterminal white Une thin between SC and R' and 

 between R' and R', otherwise rather thick, continuous except for exceedingly 

 fine interruptions at and midway between the veins ; termen and fringe about 



as in chrysolineata. Hindwing with the excision between R' and R' almost 



as deep as in chrysolineata ; white markings broad, especially a postdiscal band, 

 which is only cut by slender olivaceous veins ; postmedian line zigzag, con- 

 tinuous, fairly thick but nowhere thickened into round spots ; subterminal, 

 termen, and fringe nearly as on forewing. 



Underside white, tinged with olivaceous in places. 



Mount Dulangar, Mindoro, PhiUppines, 4,500-5,500 ft., November 1895— 

 January 1896 (J. Whitehead). Type in coll. Tring Museum. 



26. Berta zygophyxia Prout. 



Berta chry-inlineala zygophyzia Prout, Gen. Ins. faac. 129. p. 234 (1912). 



I think this must be a separate species, as it sometimes occurs together 

 with chrysolineata Wallv. I now know it from Penang, Pcrak, Singapore, Bali, 

 British New Guinea, the Admiralty and the Solomon Islands, and it will certainly 

 be detected in some intervening locaUties. By an oversight I neglected to state 

 that the type is from Bali. 



