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MACEDA. 
6974. Maceda mansueta. 
Maceda mansueta, Wik. xiii. 1141 (1857); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 82, 
pl. 154. ff. 4,5; Hn:psn. Moths Ind. ii. p. 897. 
Calduba obtenta, Wik. xv. 1815 (1858). 
Maceda discalis, W\k. Journ. Linn. Soc., Zool. vii. p. 176 (1864). 
Maceda rufescens, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 232 (i906). 
Head and thorax red-brown with a slight greyish tinge; palpi 
whitish at base; pectus and legs white, the tibiw and tarsi brown 
ringed with white; abdomen fuscous brown with slight white 
segmental lines, the ventral surface and anal tuft of male white. 
Fore wing red-brown with a faint purplish tinge; antemedial line 
brown, rather indistinct, oblique; a black discoidal point, in the 
male forming a slight streak beyond the fovea; postmedial line 
brown slightiy defined on outer side by grey, oblique from costa to 
vein 6, then dentate, bent inwards below vein 3 and outwards 
below submedian fold; subterminal line represented by a series of 
slight somewhat dentate blackish spots, somewhat excurved below 
vein 7 and ending on termen above tornus; a slight fuscous 
terminal shade from below apex to vein’2; a fine whitish line at 
Fig. 217.—Maceda mansueta, S$. }. 
base of cilia. Hind wing grey-brown, the terminal area blackish 
from vein 6 to submedian fold, a white patch heyond lower angle 
of cell with the veins on it brown; the termen and cilia white 
between veins 3 and 1; the underside white, the terminal area 
fuscous brown narrowing to tornus and with the termen and cilia 
white between veins 3 and 1, sometimes with a slight black 
discoidal striga. 
Ab. 1. discalis. Fore wing with a pale patch on discal “area 
defined by purplish fuscous beyond the antemedial and before the 
postmedial line and above submedian fold. 
Ab. 2. Fore wing with the medial area purplish fuscous to the 
submedian fold, 
Ab. 3. rufescens. Fore wing with the whole medial area purplish 
fuscous and also the postmedial area below discal fold. 
Ab. 4. Fore wing with the terminal area also purplish fuscous 
except towards apex. 
Ab. 5, Head, thorax, and fore wing greyer brown. 
