128 HADENID.^. 



inner edge black- speckled ; palpi red-bro\\Ti, third joint and tip of second yellow ; fore and 

 middle tibia3 red in front ; hind legs red-brown, with pale tarsal bands. 



Expanse, 6 2|-, ? 2| inches. 



Ilc/b. Darjiling. In coll. Dr. Staudinger and F. Moore. 



Allied to European E. occulta and to tlie Japanese E. virens. 



Genus BERRH^A. 

 Berrhcpa, Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. xv. p. 1721 (1858) ; Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 356. 



Wings rather narrow : fore wing elongate ; costa straight ; apex slightly pointed ; exte- 

 rior margin oblique, scalloped ; -posterior margin recurved ; costal vein extending to two 

 thirds the margin ; first subcostal branch emitted at half length of the cell, second trifurcate, 

 emitted at one fourth before end of the cell, third at one fourth, and fourth at one half 

 from base of second, fifth fiom end of the cell, curving upward and touching third near its 

 base ; discocellular slightly angled close to each end, deeply concave in middle ; radials 

 from its upper and lower angle; cell long, narrow ; two upper median branches from angles 

 at end of the cell, lower at one fourth before the end ; submedian recurved. Hind wing long, 

 exterior margin convex, waved ; abdominal margin short ; costal vein extending to apex ; 

 two subcostal branches from end of the cell ; discocellular oblique, concave, radial from near 

 its lower end ; two upper median branches from end of the cell, lower at one third before 

 its end ; submedian and internal veins straight. Body stout ; abdomen extending beyond 

 hind wing ; palpi stout, broad, ascending, densely clothed with long scales; third joint 

 short, squamose ; legs densely pilose ; antennae very minutely pectinate in male. 



Type B. mirigera. 



Allied to Trachea (T. atrijilicis). 



Bekeh^a aurigera. 

 Berrhcea aurigera, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xv. p. 1721 (1858) ; ]\Ioore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 356. 



Fore wing ochreous-brown, crossed by a pale-ochreous duplex black-bordered zigzag 

 antemedial line and a sinuous postmedial line ; some black-bordered ochreous basal streaks, 

 others on the costal border and middle of posterior border ; a submarginal zigzag interrupted 

 ochreous and brown fascia ; a black marginal lunular line ; orbicular and reniform marks 

 ochreous, large and widely separated at their anterior ends, but joined by a lower streak, 

 which extends below the cell and runs into a whitish-ochreous quadrate spot : hind wing 

 seneous-brown, the base being whitish-cinereous. Thorax ochreous-brown, abdomen cine- 

 reous-brown ; palpi brown ; legs brown with ochreous tarsal bands. 



Expanse, <? If, ? 2 inches. 



Hah. Darjiling {Atkinson). In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



