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Show 356 MR. F. MOORE ON NEW ASIATIC [Mar. 1, Genus BERRH^EA. Berrha?a, 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; discocellular 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 in male. Allied to Trachea {T. atriplicis). BERRH^EA AURIGERA. Berrha?a aurigera, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M . xv. p. 1721 (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 on the costal border and middle of posterior border ; a submarginal zigzag interrupted ochreous and brown fascia; a black marginal lunular line; orbicular and reniform marks ochreous, large and widely separated 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 aeneous-brown, the base being whitish cinereous. Thorax ochreous-brown; abdomen cinereous-brown ; palpi brown ; legs brown, with ochreous tarsal bauds. Expanse, 3 lg, $ 2 inches. HaB. Darjiling (Atkinson). In coll. Dr. Staudinger. BERRH^EA MEGASTIGMA. Hadena megastigma, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. B. M . xxxiii. p. 738 (1865). HaB. Darjiling. BERRH^EA ALBINOTA. Hadena alBinota, Moore, P. Z. S. 1867, p. 58. Hab. Darjiling. |