GEOMETRIDJE. 435 



COMIB^NA BIPLAGIATA. 



hiphvjiata, Wiilker, MS. Coll. Brit. Mils. 



Green : forcwing with a transverse angulated antemedial wliite line, a post- 

 medial line, and a submarginal lunular line, the two former lines bent outward below 

 the median, and the outer line between upper and middle median ; a white line also 

 extending from the angle of inner to discal hue, and the veins between the diseal 

 and outt r line also white ; posterior angle purplish-red with black speckles : hind- 

 wing with a white discal line, which is bent outward at the discocellular and joins a 

 wavy submarginal line ; a large purplish-red black-speckled patch at the apex, 

 and a smaller one at anal angle. Thorax and abdomen with Avhite bands; shaft of 

 antennce, vertex, palpi, legs and body beneath white ; front of head partly green and 

 white ; fore tibijB with a brown-speckled band. 



Expanse Ito inch. 



Allied to C. partita, Walker. 



Genus BERTA. 

 S.rt„, Walker, Catul. Lop. Ilet. B. M. xxvi. p. 1621 (18G2). 



Male : forewing rather short, costa arched, exterior margin very slightly oblique ; 

 cell less than half the length ; first subcostal from end of cell, five-branched, the 

 sixth also from the end ; discocellular outwardly-oblique, bent above the middle, 

 radial from the angle ; two upper medians from end of cell, lower at one-third : 

 hindwing short, broad ; exterior margin sinuous, angular ; cell less than half the 

 length ; two subcostals at one-fourth from beyond the cell ; discocellular outwardly 

 oblique, bent above the middle, radial from the angle ; two upper medians a short 

 distance beyond end of cell, lower near the end. Body slender; palpi porrecb, 

 slender, second joint extending beyond the head, third joint linear, less than half 

 length of second; antennas broadly bipectinated to half the length, the branches 

 long, ciliated ; legs smooth, slender, hind tibiae thickened, with four slender spurs. 



BERTA CHEYSOLINEATA (Plate 196, Fig. 4). 

 Berta chrysoHneafa, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxvi. p. 1621 (1862). 



Olive-green. Wings with a basal cluster, a medial, submarginal, and a marginal 

 row of irregular-shaped large white spots. Cilia alternated with white. Abdomen 

 with whitish bands ; vertex white ; head, palpi above and forelegs brownish ; body 

 and legs beneath white. 

 Expanse 1 inch. 



BERTA GAVISSIMA (Plate 196, Fig. 6, ^). 

 Comibcena (/aviisima, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxii. p. .575 (1S61). 

 Pale green. Wings crossed by three basal, two submarginal, and a marginal 



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