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Genus MACAPTA. 



Type. 



Mitka/ita, Sehaus, Pr. U.S. Nat. Miia. xxx. p. 09 (1906) cnrnescens. 



Kohlcra, Scliaus, 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 typic^illy lon;^; Irons smootli ; eyes 

 larf,'i>, rounded ; tei;ulaj produeed to a sHf;ht dor.sal ridge ; thorax clothed 

 cliielly with scales, the prothorax with very long oblique llattened crest, the 

 nietathorax with slight crest; tibiaj moderately fringed with liair ; abdomen 

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

 and acute, tiie ternien evenly curved and not creuulate ; veins 3 and .") froiu 

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

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

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

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



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



A. Palpi upturned, the ord joint short. 



a. Fore wing with the postmedial line double Ij-uma. 



b. Fore wing with the postmedial line single pscclrocera. 



4417. Macapta truma. 



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



Head and thorax bright I'ufous, the scales tijiped 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 subniedian interspace ; orbicular and reniforin 

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

 diffused rufous medial lino excurved from costa to median nervure, 

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

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

 l)oiuts beyond it on costa; suhterminal 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 



