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MARCALA SULPHURESCENS i Pi.atk 185, Fig. 8). 



Pale greenish-ochreous ; sparsely speckled with indistinct short brown strigfc : 

 forewing with a transverse purple-brown inwardly-oblique antemedial and a post- 

 medial slightly waved line, the latter ending in a small purplish-brown apical patch ; 

 a brown-l)ordered oval white spot at end of the cell : hindwing with a transverse 

 medial purple brown slightly diffused line, and a small speckled spot at end of the 

 cell. Autennse, front of head, and forelegs in front purple-brown ; palpi and legs 

 ochreous. 



Expanse lyV inch. 



MARCALA SATURATARIA (Plate 204, Fig. 4). 

 Geometra saturataria. Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxii. p. 519 (18G1). 



Lilacine brownish-ochreous. Wings with a few short transverse slender black 

 striga3 : forewing with a large broad white-edged dark green irregular-bordered 

 medial patch, and a smaller contiguous patch before the apex : hindwing with a similar 

 patch on middle of abdominal border. Shaft of antenna) oclireous-white, the branches 

 brown. 



Expanse 1-g- inch. 



Family (ENOCHROMIDJE. 



Wings stout, velvety. Forewing acute or sUghtly falcate at the apex : hind- 

 wing not angular ; radial vein present in this wing. Front villose, not tufted ; palpi 

 stout, straight ; antennge pectinated in male ; in some on one side only ; thorax 

 woolly ; abdomen thick, smooth ; legs robust, short, hind tibiae not thickened. 



Genus NOREIA. 

 Koreia, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxiv. p. 1092 (1862). 



Wings broad: forewing triangular; cell half the length; fii'st subcostal emitted 

 at one-seventh before end of the cell, anastomosed to the costal near its end, second 

 very close to the first, quadrifid, the second partly anastomosed to first and the third 

 partly to second, sixth from end of the cell ; discocellular slightly concave, radial 

 from the middle ; the middle median close to end of the cell, lower about one-third : 

 hindwing short, broad, triangular; cell half the length ; costal and subcostal curved 

 upward at the base ; first subcostal near end of the cell ; discocellular outwardly 

 recurved, radial from the middle; the middle median near end of cell, lower about 

 one-third. Body moderately stout ; antennas in female setaceous ; palpi ascending, 

 curved, reaching the vertex, compressed, laxly squainous in front, third joint 

 extremely minute ; legs smooth, slender, rather long, spurs rather short, slender. 



Type, N. perdensata. 



