464 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



Expanse OJ to 10^ lines." 



Ceylou. lu Mr. E. L. Lajard's Collection. 



Family MACARIIDiE. 



"Wings of moderate size, delicate, smooth, sliglitly and minutely speckled ; alike 

 in colour and markings : forewing triangular, exterior margin often notched in front ; 

 hindwing often angular or dentate, not excavated. Body generally robust ; palpi 

 moderately long, straight or slightly ascending, contiguous at the tips ; legs slender, 

 smooth, moderately long ; hind tibiae longer than the femora, often incrassated ; 

 antennas in male pubescent or setulose, rarelj^ pectinated. 



Larva hardly elongated, cylindrical ; head globular. Lives exposed on trees or 

 shrubs. Pupa in a cocoon among brushwood or on the surface of the earth. 



Genus GUBARIA. 



Semiotliim (part), Iliibner, Verz. p. 29S (1823-25) ; Butler, Tr. Ent. Soc. 1881, p. 348. 

 Male. Forewing triangular, apex pointed, exterior margin oblique, nearly 

 straight; cell half the length, narrow; first subcostal at one-sixth before end of cell, 

 second close to end, trifid, fifth from the end ; discocellular slender, bent inward 

 above the middle, radial from below the angle ; two upper medians from end of cell, 

 lower at nearly half; submedian bent close to end, with a short curved slender lower 

 branch : hindwing broad, somewhat quadrate, exterior margin dentated above the 

 angle; cell nearly half the length, bent and wide at the base; two subcostals from 

 end ; discocelluhir concave ; no radial; two upper medians from end of cell, lower at 

 one-third. Body moderately stout ; palpi porrect, stout, second joint extending 

 two-thirds beyond the head, laxly squamous beneath, third joint short, obtuse; 

 antennte minutely ciliated ; legs squamous, hind tibia3 long, inci'assated, grooved 

 along inner side and furnished with a pencil of long silky hairs from the base ; with 

 two ]iairs of spurs, the upper pair long and the lower short, hind tarsi short. 

 Tij'fte, G. fasciata. 



GUBARTA FASCIATA (Plate 203, Fig. 6, 6n, (? ? ; 6h, larva). 



Phahvna fasciata, Faljrieius, Syst. Eat. p. 629 (1775) ; Ent. Syst. iii. 2, 164. 

 Phahvna Geometra Eleoitora, Cramer, Pap. Exot. iii. p. 172, pi. 288, f. E.F.G. (1780). 

 Macaria Elcononi, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxiii. p. 933. 

 Geometra punctata, Fabricius, Eiit. Syst. iii. 2, 126 (1794). 

 Alacuria Victorinata, Gueuee, Phal. ii. p. 90 (1857), ^. 



Male. Brownish-grey, fading to ochreous-brown. 'Wings palest externally ; 

 crossed by a broad straight medial white band, which does not reach the costa, the 



