NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAK XXII. 191:". 35l 



rolonr; extreme oostal edge in ])l.icos lilaclc, in jilaee.s oclivenna witli black (iota: 

 markings deep fnscons, little darker than the rest of tlie wing ; antemedian line 

 bent in tlie cell ; median shade bent ronnd (bnt touching) the moderately large 

 blackish cell-dot ; postmedian line moderatel)' strongly bent subcostally, closely 

 followed distally by an obscnre dark band (not bent subcostally), which is mixed 

 with ferruirinons anteriorly, is weak Ijotween the radials, contains a patch of 

 ochreoas scales between W and M', widens posteriorly and is distally bounded by a 

 very indistinct, somewhat glancescent, crennlated line ; fringe concolorons, with a 



slender pale line at base. Hindicing with inner margin relatively long, costa 



rather short, ajtex almost rounded off, termen snbcrennlate, strongly bent in middle, 

 but with the tooth at li' not very strongly produced ; concolorons with forewing ; 

 median shade fairly distinct, forming a baseward cnrve in cell, thus proximal to the 

 strong black discal dot ; postmedian line crossing middle of wing, crennlate, faint, 

 accompanied by a fine, faint glancescent line ; the ochreons mark beyond longer and 

 narrower than on forewing, extending from R- to M', jilaced ju'oximally to, rather 

 than on, the vagne dark band; the glancescent snbterminal line from R^ to toruus 

 rather thick and distinct ; a faint pale terminal patch about the medians ; fringe 

 here somewhat pale, with dark spots at vein-ends. 



Forewing beneath in basal part shaded with ochreons anteriorly, spotted and 

 dotted with fnscons ; proximal half otherwise strongly striated with bluish white 

 except on the fuscous median band and a large blackish cell-dot ; the boundary of 

 this area is sliglitly oblique, nearly straight, but fiiintly curved outwards at costal 

 and hindmargin ; distal area almost uniformly dark fuscous, with faintest indica- 

 tions of pale snbterminal line. Hind wing beneath bluish white, with dark dots and 

 strigulae, large cell-dot, broad median shade as above, curved snbterminal baud from 

 costa to inner margin near tornus, a fuscous area distally to this band, parting from 

 it before R' and ending midway between R^ and M', only a fainter bar running 

 from it (parallel with the snbterminal band) to termen near tornns. 



Bitye, Ja River, Cameroons. Type in coll. L. B. Front; a second example, 

 rather rubbed, in coll. W. F. H. Rosenberg, the latter showing on the hindwing a 

 sinuous postmedian line beneath in addition to the median and snbterminal dark 

 bands. 



The nnderside and some of the shadings of the upper recall M. suhcretata Warr. 

 (2\ov. Zool. xii. 37), but I do not think percnoptera can possibly be a giant form of 

 that species, which occurs also in the locality ; termen of forewing more oblicpie, 

 less convex, upper surface with less strong dark bands, nnder surface with less white 

 than in S suhcretata, etc. Larger even than ficscataria Muschl., which is rather 

 less varied above with whitish and ochreons, has the median line of the hindwing 

 crossing or passing almost distally to the cell-spot, more white at base of fringes 

 (especially beneath), a pale apical mark and a small white subapical spot on 

 forewing beneath. 



82. Macaria semialbida sp. nov. 

 ?, 2.^-26 mm. Similar to a small acstimaria Hb., abdomen more slender, 

 forewing rather narrower, hindwing rather less crennlate, but projecting rather 

 more strongly at R', gronnd-colour white, antemedian line slightly more oblique, 

 postmedian of both wings more thickened in middle, that of hindwing rather 

 farther from cell-spot, triangular blackisli mark proximally to snbterminal line on 

 both wings rather large and conspicaons, under-surface sharply marked. 



