4C6 THE LEPIDOPTERA OF CEYLON. 



Male. Forewing short, triangular, apex slightly subfalcate, exterior margin 

 convexly angular before the middle ; cell more than half the length ; first subcostal 

 at one-sixth, second approximate, trifid ; fifth from end of cell ; discocellular out- 

 wardly oblique, concave, radial from the middle ; two upper medians from end of cell, 

 lower at one-third ; submedian bent at the base, and with a short curved lower basal 

 branch, the space above the angle and within the basal fork somewhat vitreous : 

 hindwing short, broad, exterior margin angular in the middle; cell fully half the 

 length ; two subcostals from end ; discocellular bent in the middle ; no radial ; two 

 upper medians from end, lower at one-third. Body slender ; palpi porrect, stout, 

 short, laxly clothed, apex minute ; antenna3 serrated, shaft coarsely annulated, 

 minutely ciliated ; legs squamous ; hind tibiae incrassated, with two pairs of very 

 short spurs, hind tarsi short. 



Typo, M. liturata. 



MACARIA EMERSARIA. 



Ilacaria Emersnria, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xxiii. p. 925 (1861). 



Testaceous-white. "Wings minutely black- speckled ; cell spot small : forewing 

 crossed by an excurved antemedial, a zigzag medial, and an incurved postmedial 

 brown line, each angulated inward near costal end ; outer line bordered by a broad 

 ochreous-brown fascia, beyond which the outer border is more or less cinereous- 

 brown, traversed by some intervening whitish spots ; upper end of the fascia above 

 and below the angle of discal line sometimes bright ferruginous-brown and black- 

 speckled ; marginal line distinct, dark ochreous-brown : hindwing with three similar 

 waved lines, outer liordei'ing fasciae, and marginal lunular line. Cilia pale ochreous- 

 yellow, tipt with brown at the vein points and below apex of forewing. Body brown- 

 speckled ; front of head, palpi above, and forelegs ochreous-brown. 



Expanse lyV to l^- inch. 



MACARIA (1) CESSARIA. 



Macaria {?) cessaria, Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. xxiii. p. 936 (1861). 



" Male. Pale luteous-yellow. AVings with a red nearly straight line, which 

 extends from four-fifths the length of the costa of the forewing to middle of the 

 abdominal margin of the hindwing, and is accompanied on the inner side hindward 

 with a diffuse pale-brownish band ; a few blackish points between it and the exterior 

 border, which is red. Forewing acute, hardly falcate ; hindwing with the exterior 

 border distinctly angular. Palpi porrect, rather long, third joint about half length 

 of second ; antennas rather stout. 



" Expanse 10 lines." 



Ceylon. In Mr. E. L. Layard's Collection. 



