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THE MOTHS OF INDIA. 



SUPPLEMENTARY PAPER TO THE VOLUMES IN 

 " THE FAUNA OF BRITISH INDIA." 



SERIES IV, PART II. 



By 



Sir George F. Hampson, Bart., f.z.s., f.e.s. 

 ( Continued from page 61 '4 of this Volume.) 



Genus Trachea. Type. 



Trachea, Ochs. Schmett. Eur., iv, p. 75 (1816) non-descr. ; 



Treit. Schmett. Eur. (5) 2, p. 65 (1825) . . . . atriplicis. 



Phosphila, Hiibn. Verz., p. 208 (1827) . . . . . . turbulenta. 



Rama, Stepli. 111. Brit. Ent. Haust, iii, p. 4 (1829) . . anceps. 



Berrhcea, Walk., xv, 1721 (1858) . . . . . . aurigera. 



Ghandata, Moore, Lep. Alk., p. 113 (1882) . . . . partita. 



Epa, Beth-Baker. Nov. Zool., xiii, p. 192 (1906) . . . . pratti. 



Achatia, Hiibn. Tent, ined . . . . . . . . atriplicis. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about 

 to middle of frons, the 3rd short and blunt ; irons smooth ; eyes large, 

 round ; head and thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the vertex of head 

 with ridge of scales, the pro- and meta-thorax with divided crests ; tibiae 

 fringed with long hair ; abdomen with dorsal series of crests. Forewing 

 broad, the apex rounded, the termen crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from close to 

 angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 to form 

 the areole ; 11 from cell. Hindwing with veins 3*4 from angle of cell ; 5 

 obsolescent from just below middle of discocellulars ; 6'7 from upper angle; 

 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I (Chandata). — Antennae of male bipectinate with long branches, 

 the apex simple. 



1760. Trachea partita. 



Sect. II. — Antennae of male bipectinate with short branches, the apex 

 serrate. 



1758. Trachea cyanelinea. 



Sect. III.— Antennae of male serrate and fasciculate. 



A. Forewing with the subterminal line green ; expand- 



ing into a patch on inner area . . . . hastata. 



B. Forewing with the subterminal line not green. 



a. Forewing reddish-brown, the orbicular and reni- 



form confluent below . . . . . . confluens. 



b. Forewing grey irrorated with fuscous and with 



patches of olive-green, the orbicular and reni- 



form separate . . . . . . . . stoliezcce. 





