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1733. Trachea aukigeea. 



Berrhcea aurigera, Wlk., XV, 1721 (1858) ; Hmpsn., Cat. Lep. 



Phal. B. M., vii, p. 148, pi. Ill, f. 18. 

 Hadena megasticjma, Wlk., XXXIII, 738 (1865). 

 1785c. Trachea microspila, Hmpsn., Cat Lep. Phal. B. M., vii, p. 



149, pi. Ill, f. 19 (1908). 

 Head and thorax fuseons brown mixed with some white and black scales 

 and with patches of olive-green on vertex of head, tegulee, patagia and 

 metathorax ; pectus and legs brown irrorated with white, the tarsi with pale 

 rings ; abdomen brown irrorated with grey. Forewing grey-brown irrorated 

 with black and some' white, the medial area suffused with olive-green : 

 the basal area with patches of green below costa and cell and above inner 

 margin ; subbasal line waved, from costa to a slight black spot above vein 

 1 ; antemedial line oblique, waved ; traces of a claviform defined by black 

 with small oblique white spot beyond its extremity ; orbicular and reniform 

 green slightly defined by black and with more or less brown in centres, 

 the former rather elliptical, the latter large, irregular, constricted at 

 middle ; a slight waved medial line, oblique from costa to vein 2, then 

 inwardly oblique ; postmedial line double at cos,ta, strongly bent outwards 

 below costa, then dentate, very oblique below vein 4, some white points 

 beyond it on costa ; subterminal line green, defined on each side by slight 

 black marks and with more or less green suffusion before and beyond it, 

 angled outwards at vein 7, excurved at middle and sharply angled inwards 

 at submedian fold ; a terminal series of small black lunules ; cilia grey 

 mixed with brown and black. Hindwing with the basal half yellowish- 

 white, the terminal half fuscous, the inner area tinged with brown ; cilia 

 whitish with a dark line through them ; the underside white, the costal and 

 terminal areas irrorated with brown, a black discoidal spot and curved 

 minutely waved postmedial line with dark band beyond it. 



Habitat. — W. China ;" Punjab, Kulu, Sultanpur, Dalhousie. Dharmsala. 

 Exp. 50-58 mill. 



1732. Trachea melanospila. 



Trachea melanosplia, Koll., Hiigel's Kashmir, IV, p. 480 (1844); 



Hmpsn., Cat. Lep. Phal. B. M., vii, p. 149, pi. Ill, f . 20. 

 Hadena Usahka, Obuth, Et. Ent., V., p. 80. pi. 7, f. 4 (1880). 

 1732a. Trachea auriplena. 



Trachea atriplicis, Koll., Hiigel's Kashmir, IV, p. 479 (nee. Linn.). 

 Eurois auriplena, Wlk., XI, 557 (1857) ; Moore, Lep. Ceyl. Ill, p. 



37, pi. 148, f. 2. 

 Hadena lucia,, Butt., A. M. X. H. (5) 1, p. 195 (1878) ; id. 111. Het- 

 B. M. Ill, p. 17, pi. 45, f. 2 ; Stand., Cat. Lep. Phal.. p. 184. 

 Head and tegulse olive-green mixed with dark-brown, the latter with 

 some white scales ; palpi and lower part of frons dark and pale-brown 



