MACARIIDjE. 467 



MACARIA (1) SUBCAUDARIA. 



Macnria{?) siihcnuihma, Walker, Cahil. Lop. Het. 15. M. xxiii. p. 93G (1861), ?. 



" Female. Pale cinereous, minutely speckled with l)rowu. Wings with the 

 interior, exterior, and submarginal lines brown, slender, slightly denticulated ; sub- 

 marginal line partly black, contiguous on its exterior side to a brown triangular 

 costal spot ; space between it and the exterior border brown in the hindwing and 

 partly brown in the forewing ; marginal festoon black. Forewing truncate-falcate 

 at the tip ; exterior border very slightly angular before the middle : hindwing 

 extending beyond the abdomen, exterior border very acutely angular in the middle, 

 forming a short tail. 



" Expanse 14 lines." 



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



Genus GONODELA. 



Pharmacis* Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 298 (1823-25). 

 Gonodela, Boisiluval, Ind. Meth. Eur. Lep. p. 186 (1840). 



Forewing short, triangular, apex obtusely pointed, exterior margin slightly 

 angular in the middle : hindwing short, quadrate, exterior margin slightly scalloped, 

 ano-ular in the middle. Venation similar to that in Macaria. AntenujB submonili- 

 form, veiy minutely ciliated ; hind tibias not thickened, with two pairs of stout spurs. 

 Wings shorter than in ilacaria ; apex of forewing not subfalcate; hindwing less 

 angular. 



Type, Gr. ajstimaria. 



GONODELA STJFFLATA (Plate 205, Fig. 5, 6, g ^ ). 

 Macaria svfflata, Guenee, Phal. ii. p. 88, pi. 17, fig. 8 (1857), ^ ; "Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. 

 xxiii. p. 925 (1861). 



Brownish-cinereous. Wings transversely speckled with short blackish strigjB : 

 forewing crossed by three dark-brown inwardly- oblique lines ; the inner line 

 excurved, the middle hue undulated, the outer incurved, each retracted to the costa ; 

 outer hue darkest, and with a contiguous very diffused Hue and ill-defined bordering 

 fascia, which is interrupted before the apex : hindwing with a medial and discal 

 almost straight hue, the latter with contiguous diffused Hne and bordering fascia, on 

 the middle of which is a blackish patch ; cell spot black ; cilia white. Female with 

 more ochreous-brown markings. 



Expanse Ito inch. 



* Hiibner bad previously used this raitie (Verz. p. 199) for a genus of Lepidoptera. 



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