126 ^h\ L. B. Prout on new 



Subfam, Qeometeinm. 



28. Macaria laguatia, sp. n. 

 (PL YII. fig. 3.) 



. ? .—33-35 mm. 



Frontal tu£t very small. Palpus one-aud-a-lialf times as 

 long as diameter of eye. Head and body coucolorous with 

 wings. 



Fo7'e wing witli termen waved, a scarcely noticeable sinus 

 between 11^ and E,^ ; SC^ arising from C ; SC" free ; white, 

 shaded almost throughout with violaceous fuscous and with 

 some coarse dark fuscous irroration ; an ill-defined ochreous- 

 brown admixture in the region of the lines, especially post- 

 medially ; costal margin indefinitely dark-spotted basally ; 

 lines thick and strongly oblique outward at costa (at approxi- 

 mately one-fifth, two-fifths, and three-fifths), otherwise ill- 

 defined and oblique inward, the antemedian inbent behind M, 

 tiie median forming a sinuous shade in the region of the 

 somewhat elongate, obliquely placed, dark cell-mark, the 

 postmedian forming a marked inward curve between E,^ and 

 M-, accentuated by a long blackish mark on its proximal 

 side, which is swollen in the middle and gradually tapers 

 ])osteriorly ; the blackish marks between the radials beyond 

 the postmedian line (characteristic of many of the genus) 

 unusually elongate — nearly or quite 2 mm. in length ; a large 

 dark ferruginous spot from nearly four-fifths costa almost to 

 tljje subcostal angle of postmedian line : an oblique darker 

 mark from tornus to fold ; the space between median shade 

 and postmedian, a small patch distal to the ferruginous one, 

 and another at mid-termen maiidy whitish, the second of 

 these patches usually culminating in a clearer white spot 

 between SC'' and E,^ ; termen with shallow elongate dark 

 lunules, which are sometimes almost confluent ; a slight 

 interrupted white line at base o£ fringe, extending minutely 

 on to the wing distal ly to the lunules ; fringe otherwise 

 violet-fuscous, quite weakly dark-spotted opposite the veins. 



Hind wing with median shade curving inward proximally 

 to the cell-spot, which is rounder (less elongate) than on fore 

 wino- ; distal area more weakly marked than on fore wing, 

 wanting the characteristic dark markings. 



Both wings beneath purer white, though with coarse stiigu- 

 late irroration ; costal edge and veins more or less strongly 

 ochreous ; cell-marks strong ; median shade present, but 

 ill-defined ; area distally to postmedian line dark, ferruginous- 

 mixed, enclosing on the fore wing white patches correspunding 



