196 MIMOZETHES: MACROCILIX. By Dr. E. Strand. 



head and anal segment, a sublateral white line and rows of white and yellow transverse bars at the sides; 

 10 pedes spurii. Widely distributed in India, also in Kashmir; and in Northern Cliina. 



capilata. E. capitata Walk. (23 f), from China. Japan and Corea, is said to be a very variable species. Ground- 



colour white, head, paljji and antennae black, abdomen grey with white hind margins to the segments and 

 with white apex. Wings with very broad grey median band diffuse in the middle of the eo-stal area of the fore^ving, 

 widened in the middle of the hindwing and almost interinipted anteriorly; and with another grey distal band 

 strongly narrowed especially in the middle, and on the forewing strongly widened costally ; a row of blackish 

 submarginal spots indistinctly connected with each other; discocellular spot of forewing white; the forewing 

 bears two indistinct dentate dark bands in the basal area. $ 60 to 70 mm. — Most easily distinguished 

 from substigmaria by the absence of a deep black discocellular spot on the upperside of the hindwing, wliile 

 below there is an obsolescent blackish discocellular spot on both wings (in substigmaria this is deep black 

 and sharply defined). 



orciferaria. E. orciferaria Wcilk. (= ociferaria nut.) (48 a), from Northern China, is brownish black, lighter beneath, 



wings distally w ith three dentate purplish grey lines close together, a similar inner line being indicated, other- 

 wise the wings bear irregu.lar and indistinct darker krorations and are grey in the outer third of the under- 

 side. Forew'ing more elongate and more falcate at the apex tlian in substigmaria. and the margin more oblique, 

 while the hindwing is distally more rounded than in the latter species. 5 72 mm. 



fracii- E. fractifasciata Leech (48 a), from Western China, is wliite, forewmg with dark spot and band in the 



fasctata. basal area, internipted median band enclosing a white spot in the costal area and represented in the liind- 



marginal area by two round .spots, and with a dark marginal area as Avell as darker wavy luies. Hiudwing 



with interrupted dark submarginal band and a row of dark spots in the marginal area. J 80, $ 90 mm. 



dkiyaria. E. dictyaria Swinh., from Kangra in Kashmir, is pure white above and below, forewing without any 



transverse markings, biit with a discal spot below shining tlu'ough, and hindwing with large black similar 

 spot, both wings with shaii)ly marked round black submarginal spots. Vertex black. $ 66 to 67 mm. 



fabiolaria. E. fabiolaria Oberth. (23 f), from Tibet, is perhaps not a Drepanid at all, but a Geometrid. Wings 



milky wiiite with grey-brown spots indefinitely bounded and not regularly arranged, which in the forewing 

 above are especially prominent in the basal area, the middle of the costal area, and as a submarginal 

 band broadly interrupted in the middle, wliile in the hindwing there are in the mnermarginal half a median 

 and a submarginal band dark, besides a dull dark submargmal transverse spot in the middle of the marginal 

 area. Body yellowish, abdomen with black spots. 51 mm. 



2. Subfamily: Drepaninae subfam. nov. 



Vein 1 a of forewing forked with lb, not ending free. Palpi small or even absent: vein 1 a of hiudwing may be 

 present or alisent; vein 5 of forewing on the whole di.stinctly below the centre between 4 and 6. Larvae with 14 feet (8 

 propedes). Falls into two groups. 



A. Proboscis and frenulum present (genera 2 to 10). 



2. Genus: JfliiiioxetlieM Warr. 



The species for which tliis genus was afterwards erected was origiiially described by Waeren as a 

 doubtful Euchera, while Leech had described it a few months earlier as an Epiplemid. — ■ The genus seems 

 to differ from Euchera in the following particulars: costa of forewing strongly curved at the base, then straight, 

 hindwing broadly rovuided at both angles. Palpi porrect. Veiji 5 of forewing from the middle of the discocel- 

 lular, antennae shortly unipectinate. Unknown to me. 



argenttline- M. argentilinearia Leech (= nana Warr.) (48a). Forewing bronze-brown, \vith hght mauve-grey, sharply 



aria, angulate transverse lines, two near the base, two at one-tliird, a fifth beyond the centre and two further lines 



submarginal; fringes purple with white tips. Hindwing more puiple, with 6 or 7 light wavy lines which 



do not reach the costal margin and the outer one of which is denticulate, a light marginal band with 



darker spots. Both sexes 32 mm. — Japan. 



3. Genus: ]fIafiM»eilix Butl. 



Medium-sized, predominantly Avhite moths with very small palpi, rounded apex of forewing and angul- 

 ate discocellular ; veins 7, 8 and 9 stalked, 6 originating below the upper angle of the cell ; antennae of <J 

 with long pectinations, of $ with short ones (in ,1/. wysticata). Areole present or not. — SwaxHOE has erected 

 a new genus Sewa for orbiferatn. 



*) Euchera agues BiiiL, in Ann. JNlag. Nat. Hist. {'>) 1, ]>. 411, fiom .T.ipan, is a Geometrid. 



