148 NOCTUIDiE. 



outwards below costa and above inner margin ; claviform small, 

 black-brown with green marks on it ; orbicular and reniform green 

 defined by black, the former oblique elliptical with dark point in 

 upper part, the latter oblique with some dark scales in upper and 

 lower parts, the cell before and between them and the area beyond 

 the reniform dark chocolate-brown ; traces of an obliijue brown 

 ine from lower angle of cell to inner margin ; postmedial line 

 indistinctly double filled in with green, bent outwards below costa, 

 then minutely waved, exourved to vein 4, then incurved, angled 

 outwards in submediau fold and with dark brown mark on inner 

 side ; postmedial area dark chocolate-brown between vein 6 ai)d 

 snbmedian fold and with some whitish j^oints on costa ; subterminal 

 line indistinct, pale defined by blackish on inner side, slightly 

 angled outwards at veins 8, 7, 4, 3, 2 ; the veins of terminal area 

 streaked with brown, a dark brown mark at apex and brown 

 terminal line ; cilia grey-green with series of slight brown points 

 at tips. Hind wing greyish suffused with red-brown, the cilia 

 greyer with slight brown line through them ; the underside greyish, 

 the costal and terminal areas suffused with red-brown, a brown 

 discoidal spot and curved sinuous postmedial line. 



JIah. Er. N. Guinea, Owgarra {Meeic), 1 5 , Dinawa, type t $ 

 in Coll. Bethune-Baker. Exp. 38 millim. 



2897. Trachea aurigera. (Plate CXI. fig. 18.) 



Berrhsa aurigera, Wlk. xv. 1721 (1858) ; H"mpsn. Moths Incl. ii. p. 215. 

 Hadena megastigma, Wlk. xxxiii. 738 (1865). 



Head and thorax olive-green mixed with golden brown and dark 

 brown, some of the hairs tipped with white ; palpi and sides of 

 frons dark brown with some pale scales ; pectus and legs dark 

 brown, some of the hairs tipped with white, the fore tibia fringed 

 with green, the tibia and tarsi with pale rings ; abdomen dark 

 brown mixed Avith whitish especially at base, the crests and anal 

 tuft rufous. Fore wing olive-green mostly suffused with olive- 

 brown and black, the medial area darker except towards costa and 

 inner margin ; the terminal area blackish except between veins 4 

 and 2 ; the veins with dark streaks irrorated with blue- while scales ; 

 subbasal line represented by double black striaj from costa and cell 

 filled in with green, a black mark beyond it above vein 1 and patch 

 on base of inner margin; antemedial line double, oblique, waved; 

 claviform absent ; a pale greenish lunule defined by black below 

 origin of vein 2 ; orbicular and reniform olive-green defined by 

 black except below where they are conjoined by a fascia in and 

 below cell, their centres more or less tinged with brown, the reni- 

 form with black spot near inner lower edge ; traces of a waved 

 medial line ; postmedial line indistinctly double filled in with 

 violaceous grey, strongly bent outwards below costa, then dentate, 

 oblique below vein 4, some white points beyond it on costa ; sub- 

 terminal line green, angled outwards at veins 7, 4, 3 and inwards at 

 discal and submedian folds; a terminal series of small black 



