230 LLOYDS NATURAL HISTORY 



have a dorsal row of reddish-brown dots, whilst others have a 

 series of dashes or a line. There is generally a lateral row of 

 small brown dots. The pupa is shining brown. It is enclosed 

 in a slight cocoon in the ground. 



FAMILY MACARIID/E. 



These are rather small moths, with ciliated, but rarely pec- 

 tinated antennae, moderately long abdomen and legs, the latter 

 unarmed, but the tibiae half as long again as the femora, and 

 often swollen. The fore- wings are triangular, pointed, and 

 often concave below the tip ; the hind-wings are often dentated 

 or angulated. 



The larvas are short and cylindrical, and feed on trees or 

 shrubs ; the pupse are enclosed in cocoons, on or under the 

 ground. 



The moths of this family have considerable mutual re- 

 semblance ; and though the species are rather numerous, very 

 few are found in Europe. 



GENUS MACARIA. 

 iVacoria, Curtis, Brit. Ent. iii. pi. 132 (1826); Guenee, Spec. 

 Gen. Lepid. Uran. et Phal. ii. p. 66 (1857); Walker, 

 List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. xxiii. p. 878 (1861). 

 Se/niothisa, pt. Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 298 (1822?). 



Curtis' name may be retained for the species which he 

 figured, leaving Se/iiioi/u'sa, Hiibner, for those in which there 

 is a notch below the tip of the fore-wings. 



THE TAWNY-BARRED ANGLE MOTH. MACARIA LITURATA. 



Geomctra liturata, Clerck, Icones, pi. 6, fig. 6 (1759) ; Linnaeus, 

 Faun. Suec. p. 334 (1761) ; Hiibner, Beitr. Schmett. i. (4), 

 p. 29, Taf. 4, fig. X (1789); Esper, Schmett. v. p. 89, 

 Taf. 16, figs. 7-9 (1795?)- 



