OG 



NOCTUID.E. 



Genus MACAPTA. 



Type. 



Makapta, Sehaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxx. p. 99 (1906) camescens. 



Kohkra, Sehaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxx. p. 99 (1906) nebula. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching vertex 

 of head and moderately scaled, the 3rd typically long ; irons smooth ; eyes 

 large, rounded ; teguke produced to a slight dorsal ridge ; thorax clothed 

 chiefly with scales, the prothorax with very long oblique flattened crest, the 

 metathorax with slight crest; tibia; moderately fringed with hair; abdomen 

 with dorsal crest at base only. Fore wing with the apex somewhat produced 

 and acute, the ternien evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 and 5 from 

 near angle of cell ; 6 from upper angle ; 9 from 10 anastomosing with 8 

 to form the areole : 11 from cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 from angle 

 of cell; 5 obsolescent from just below middle of diseocellulars ; 6, 7 from 

 upper angle ; 8 anastomosing with the cell near base only. 



Sect. I. Antennas of male bipectinate with rather long branches. 



A. Palpi upturned, the 3rd joint short. 



a. Fore wing with the postmedial line double bruma. 



b. Fore wing with the postmedial line single psectrocera. 



44 L7. Macapta bruma. 



Kohleria bruma, Sehaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Mus. xxx. p. 100 (1906). 



Head and thorax bright rufous, the scales tipped with white ; 

 abdomen whitish tinged with brown. Fore wing greyish irrorated 

 and suffused with rufous, the basal half and terminal area rather more 

 rufous ; an indistinct rufous subbasal line from costa to submedian 



Fig. 24. — Macapta, bruma, $ . 



fold ; antemedial line double, incurved from costa to median nervure 

 and excurved in submedian interspace ; orbicular and reniform 

 round, grey denned by rufous and with slight rufous centres ; a 

 diffused rufous medial line excurved from costa to median nervure, 

 then oblique ; postmedial line double, bent outwards below costa, 

 slightly incurved at discal fold, incurved below vein 4, some grey 

 points beyond it on costa ; subterminal line rufous, minutely waved 

 and rather diffused, oblique below vein 7 ; a fine rufous terminal 

 line with indistinct greyish lunules before it. Hind wing pale 

 suffused and irrorated with pale reddish brown ; a fine brown 

 terminal line ; cilia whitish, the underside whitish irrorated with 



