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Genus Berrh^a. 



Berrhcea, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M, xv. p. 1721 (1858). 



Wings rather narrow ; fore wing elongated, costa straight ; apex 

 slightly pointed ; exterior 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 from end of 

 the cell, curving upward and touching third near its base ; disco- 

 cellular 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 obliquely 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 iu male. 



Allied to Trachea (T. atriplicis). 



Berrh^a aurigera. 



Berrhcea aurigera, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xv. p. 1/21 

 (1858). 



Fore wing ochreous-brown, crossed by a pale ochreous, duplex, 

 black-bordered zigzag antemedian line and a sinuous postmedian 

 line ; some black-bordered ochreous basal streaks, others ou the 

 costal border and middle of posterior border ; a suhmarginal zigzag 

 interrupted ochreous and brown fascia ; a black marginal lunular 

 line ; orbicular and reuiform marks ochreous, large and widely sepa- 

 rated 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 cinereous-brown ; palpi brown ; 

 legs brown, with ochreous tarsal bands. 



Expanse, c? 1^, $ 2 inches. 



Hab. DarjiUug {Atkinson). In coll. Dr. Staudinger. 



Berrhcea megastigma. 



Hadena megastigma, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxiii. p. 738 

 (1865). 



Hab. Darjiling. 



Berrh^a albinota. 



Hadena albinota, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 58. 



Hab. Darjiling. 



