CHECUPA. — TRACHEA. 113 



tips. Hind winoj dark red-brown with darker terminal line ; cilia 

 whitish, the underside whitish suifused with red-brown, the costal 

 area with dark irroi'ation, a largo brown discoidal spot and rather 

 diffused waved postmedial line. 



Hah. SiKHiH {Dudgeon), 1 c? , 1 $ type. Exp. 58 millim. 



*2858. Checupa nigrostrigata. (Plate CX. fig. 21.) 

 Bagada nigrostrigata, Beth.-Eaker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 209 (1906). 



2 . Head and thorax pale ochreous tinged with rufous ; palpi 

 with some black-brown at side of 2nd joint ; antennae black-brown 

 except basal joint ; tegulse with black -brown tips ; tarsi black- 

 brown with pale rings ; abdomen pale ochreous tinged with brown. 

 Fore wing pale ochreous suffused in parts with rufous especially on 

 postmedial area except towards costa ; vein 1 on medial area, the 

 costal area towards apex, and the medial part of terminal area tinged 

 with sap-green ; subbasal line represented by a dark point on costa, 

 the antemedial line by a dark point on costa, then by slight striae 

 in the interspaces, bent outwards below costa; claviform absent; 

 orbicular with very faint pale annulus, elliptical ; reniform whitish 

 tinged with green, defined by black below, oblique elliptical, with 

 an irregularly quadrate black patch before it in upper part of cell 

 with an oblique blackish bar from it to costa, a black streak from 

 reniform to termen below vein 4 ; postmedial line very indistinct, 

 pale, with black point at costa, bent outwards below costa, then 

 defined by slight dark striae on inner side, excurved to vein 4, 

 then incurved, some pale points beyond it on costa wifh slight 

 brown streaks between them ; subterminal line whitish slightly 

 defined by brown on inner side, excurved below vein 7 and at middle ; 

 a terminal series of minute brown lunules ; cilia red-brown with 

 series of small black spots at tips. Hind wing whitish suffused 

 with red-brown ; cilia whitish with brown line near base ; the 

 underside whitish suifused with brown, an indistinct diffused curved 

 postmedial line and traces of subterminal shade. 



Hah. Br, N", Guinea, Dinawa {Pratt), type t $ in Coil, Bethune- 

 Baker. Exp. 42 millim. 



Genus TRACHEA. „ 



Type. 



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



Schinett. Eur. v. (2) p. 65 (1825) atripUcis. 



Phosphila, Hllbn. Verz. p. 208 (1827) turhulenta. 



Hama, Steph. 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. iii. p. 4(1829) anceps. 



Berrhcea,W\\. xv. 1721 (1858) aurigera. 



Ckandata, Moore, Lep. Atk p. 113 (1882) partita. 



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



Achatia, Hiibn. Tent, ined atripUcis. 



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

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

 head and thorax clothed chiefly with scales, the vertex of head with ridge of 

 scales, the pro- and metatliorax with divided crests ; tibite fringed with long 

 hair; abdomen with dorsal series of crests. Fore wing broad, the ap^x 

 rounded, the termen crenulate; veins 3 and 5 from close to angle of cell; 

 VOL. VII. I 



