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Macaria tractata Walk, Lis! Lep. I let. Br. Mus., xxiii, 890, 1861. — 

 "Male. Ochraceous-cinereous, minutely blackish-speckled. Thorax partly 

 white (in each side. Abdomen with a blackish spot on each side near the 

 base. Hind tibiae incrussated ; spurs short. Wings entire, partly white; 

 interior and exterior. lines brown, irregular; colours brighter and more con- 

 cisely marked on the under side. Fore win<rs hardly acute, with two ochre- 

 ous-brown streaks extending from the exterior part of the costa to the disk, 

 where the} are connected; exterior border straight. Hind wings with the 

 exterior border forming an acute and prominent angle in the middle. Length 

 of the body I) lines; of the wings 14 lines. North America." 



This is a valid species. 



Macaria latiferrugata Walk., List. xxvi, 1640, 1862. — "Male. ( linereous, 

 slightly ferruginous-speckled, paler beneath. Head ferruginous. Palpi very 

 short. Antenna- minutely serrated. Fore tibiae and fore tarsi brownish, with 

 pale bands. Wings entire; interior and exterior lines brown, hardly undu- 

 lating, slightly converging hindward; interior line retracted toward the costa 

 of the fore wings, much more slender and less conspicuous than the exterior 

 line; space beyond the exterior line ferruginous, including the indistinct 

 zigzag pale cinereous submarginal line, which is dilated into an apical patch; 

 marginal line whitish, slender; fringe brown. Fore wings acute, hardly 

 falcate: exterior border convex. Hind wings with the exterior border hardly 

 bent in the middle. Length of the body 5 .' lines; of the wings 12 lines. 

 East Florida." 



This is apparently a valid species. 



Macaria ? spilosaria Walk., List, xxvi, 1611, 1862. — "Female. Brown. 

 Palpi very short. Thorax with a black band in front. Abdomen with the 

 hind borders of tin 1 segments whitish. Legs blackish; tarsi with whitish 

 bands. Fire wings cinereous, with the exterior pari brownish; two brown 

 slightly undulating black-bordered bands; first basal; second interior; a 

 denticulated slightly undulating exterior black line, followed by an incomplete 

 line of white lunules; marginal line composed of elongated black points. 

 Hind wings cinereous, with the lines very slightly marked. Length of the 

 body 5 lines; of the 'wings 14 lines. Canada." 



The type of this species is not in the British .Museum. 



Macaria ? subapicaria Walk., List, xxvi, 1641, 1.862.— "il/flfe. Whitish, 

 slender. Palpi short, slightly ascending, extending very little beyond the 



