MACARlIDyE. 469 



obliquely ascending, extending half beyond tlie front, second joint broad, truncate 

 at end, tliird joint minute, conical ; antenna3 slender, very minutely ciliated in male, 

 simple in female ; legs squamous, ratlier slender, bind tibiai iucrassated, witb two 

 pairs of slender unequal spurs. 

 Type, Z. aureata.* 



ZEHEBA MAEGINATA (Plate 205, Fig. 8, ? ). 

 Evarzia niarginatu, Walker, Catal. Lep. Ilet. B. M. xxxv. p. 1561 (18G1), ?. 



Golden yellow. Forewing crossed by an antemedial, medial, and a discal 



undulating purplisli-brown line, the costal end of the two former retracted and 



blackisb ; outer border from the discal line and from below the apex purplish- 



ocbreous, traversed by very faint traces of a blackisb sinuous fascia ; lunular cell 



spot brownish : hindwing crossed by a similar undulating medial and discal line, and 



bordering purphsh-ochreous band. Palpi tipt -with black; fore and middle legs 



black-speckled. 



Expanse ? ItV inch. 



Genus AZATA. 



Azata, Walker, Catal. Lep. Het. B. M. xx. p. 272 (1860). 



Forewing triangular, apex subfalcate, exterior margin angular above the middle; 

 cell half the length ; subcostals close to end, second trifid ; discocellular outwardly 

 oblique, radial from the middle; two upper medians from end, lower at two-fifths : 

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

 length; tvro subcostals from end of cell; discocellular outwardly obhque ; no radial ; 

 two upper medians from end of cell, lower at one-third. Body short ; palpi short, 

 stout, extending a little beyond the head, third joint minute ; antennas slender, very 

 minutely serrated ; legs rather slender, hind tibiae not thickened, with two pairs of 

 spurs. 



Type, A. Idriasaria. 



AZATA QUADEARIA (Plate 205, Fig. 1). 



Cinereous-ochreous or cinereous-brown. Wings thickly brown-speckled : fore- 

 wing crossed by three dark brown diffused lines ; the outer line straight and broad, 

 erect ; the outer margin clouded with cinereous-brown ; marginal line brown, darkest 

 below the apex : hindwing with a medial and discal dark brown line, the latter 

 disposed near to and parallel with the angular outer margin ; marginal line distinct. 

 Underside yellowish-ochreous, flecked with dark brown transverse strigse, and 

 crossed by a darker medial line and broad discal fascia. 



Expanse tV to tu inch. 



* Z. aureata is a Darjeling species, distinguished from Z. marginata by the discal liue being placed 

 nearer the margin, and not undulated. 



