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Mr. Louis B. Front on the 
158. Macaria (?) REPETITA (Prout), nov. sp. 
(Plate XLVIII, fig. 3.) 
1 ^. 29 min. Head, body and wings pale reddish brown, irrorated 
with darker—nearly as in the European Lithina jMraria, Linn., 
but slightly duller; hindwing paler abov'e, especially in costal 
region. Forewing with the lines dark, mostly straight, only the 
po.stmedian well expressed throughout; subbasal line weak ; ante- 
median oblique, weakly sinuate, from costa at one-third to inner 
margin at scarcely beyond one-fourth, most distinct at inner margin ; 
a faint median shade at somewhat before one-half ; postmedian from 
costa at nearly four-fifths to inner margin before two-thirds, some¬ 
what darkened on the veins, and accompanied distally by a weaker 
line. Hindwing with a moderately distinct dark discal spot, a post¬ 
median line from inner margin at about three-fifths, nearly straight, 
but faintly curved towards termen, becoming indistinct, and vanish¬ 
ing about R' ; distal margin from tornus to rather broadly shaded 
with 2 )ale brownish (colour of forewing). Undersurface rather 
thickly scaled (much as in Lithina), inner margin of forewing the 
palest ; markings nearly as above. 
La Paz, Mendoza, August 23, 1905 (W. M. Bayne). 
Type in coll. L. B. Prout. 
Recalls in shape, and in some other points, Thamnonomct 
imitata, Druce, Biol. Centr.-Amer., Lep. Het., ii, 134, tab. 
liii, 20, 21, but differs, inter alia, in having non-pectinate 
antenna and in wanting the long frontal cone of hairs. 
Unfortunately, both antennae are broken, but stumps 
remain, one of them to the length of about ten segments, 
and these show a somewhat dentate, ciliated structure, 
perhaps not so strongly serrate-dentate as in the group of 
Maearia gigantata, Guen., Spec. Gen. des Lep., x, 78. I 
am not satisfied with the existent divisions of Macaria on 
secondary male characters, nor, certainly, with Meyrick’s 
impossible sinking of the genus to Opisthograptis, Htib. 
The present species has not the facies of a Macaria, but 
rather that of a Lithina (= Lozogranima). It may probably 
be near, or possibly even a form of Lozogranima (?) setaria, 
Schaus, J. N. Y. Ent. Soc., vi, 146, from S.E. Brazil, with 
which I am unacquainted, but the brief description gives 
no information as to wing-shape or structure, and the 
generic query is Mr. Schaus’ own. In Lithina vein SC^ 
is present; in M. repetita the structure is as in Macaria 
and Thamnonoma, SC^ absent, SC^ closely approaching G 
