from China, Japan, and Corea. 307 



when referring to stm'caria, ^'hebesata I believe to be the 

 male, maligna the female." I must confess, however, that I 

 cannot satisfactorily separate the specimens in my series into 

 even two species. The series comprises examples agreeing 

 respectively with each of the named forms, and all these are 

 connected by intergrades ; so that it is not possible to parcel 

 them out into well-defined groups of varieties. It seems 

 most probable that hebesata is the Asiatic representative of 

 the European cestimaria. 



Meyrick (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1892, p. 103) places 

 proditaria, Brera., in Opisthograptis. 



Distribution. China ; Japan ; Corea ; Amur ; E. Siberia ; 

 N. India. 



Macaria pervolgata. 



Macaria iiervolgata, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. xxiii. p. 930 (1861) ; Hamp- 

 son, Fauna Brit. Ind., Moths, iii. p. 205 (1895). 



Two female specimens from Chang-yang, June and August. 

 One male example from Chia-ting-fu, July, and three females 

 from the island of Kiushiu. In one female from Chang-yang 

 the ground-colour is suffused with pale brownish, the discal 

 spot is very minute, and there are no black spots beyond 

 the outer line of secondaries. 



Distribution. Bengal; Poona {HaJnpson) ; Central and 

 Western China; Kiushiu. 



Macaria defixaria. 



Macaria defixaria, Walk, Cat. Lep. Het. xxiii. p. 932 (1861). 

 Macaria zachera, Butl. Add. & Mag. Nat. Hist. (5) i. p. 405 (1878) ; 

 lU. Typ. Lep. Het. iii. p. 45, pi. Iii. fig. 2 (1879). 



A common species in Central and Southern Japan. I have 

 received it from Gensan and Ningpo. It also appears to be 

 common in Central and Western China, July. 



Distribution. Japan; Yesso; Eastern, Central^ and Western 

 China. 



Macaria inter mediaria, sp. n. 



Allied to M. dejixaria. Walk., but the ground-colour is more 

 suffused with brownish and the angulation of secondaries is 

 less pronounced ; the angle of third line of primaries is further 

 from outer margin, and below the angle the line is less 

 oblique. On the under surface the outer lines on both wings 

 are more broadly suffused with ochreous. The black spots 

 beyond the centre of transverse band are somewhat similar to 

 the same character in J/, defixaria. 



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