230 LLOYD'S NATURAL HISTORY 



have a dorsal row of reddish-brown dots, whilst others have a 

 series of dashes or a line. There is generally a lateral row of 

 small brown dots. The pupa is shining brown. It is enclosed 

 in a slight cocoon in the ground. 



FAMILY 



These are rather small moths, with ciliated, but rarely pec- 

 tinated antennae, moderately long abdomen and legs, the latter 

 unarmed, but the tibiae half as long again as the femora, and 

 often swollen. The fore-wings are triangular, pointed, and 

 often concave below the tip ; the hind-wings are often dentated 

 or angulated. 



The larvae are short and cylindrical, and feed on trees or 

 shrubs ; the pupae are enclosed in cocoons, on or under the 

 ground. 



The moths of this family have considerable mutual re- 

 semblance ; and though the species are rather numerous, very 

 few are found in Europe. 



GENUS MAC ARIA. 



Afacaria, Curtis, Brit. Ent. iii. pi. 132 (1826); Guenee, Spec. 

 Ge'n. Lepid. Uran. et Phal. ii. p. 66 (1857); Walker, 

 List Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. xxiii. p. 878 (1861). 

 Semiothisa, pt. Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 298 (1822?). 



Curtis' name may be retained for the species which he 

 figured, leaving Semiothisa, Hiibner, for those in which there 

 is a notch below the tip of the fore-wings. 



THE TAWNY-BARRED ANGLE MOTH. MACARIA LITURATA. 



Geometra liturata, Clerck, Icones, pi. 6, fig. 6 (1759) ; Linnaeus, 

 Faun. Suec. p. 334 (1761) ; Hiibner, Beitr. Schmett. i. (4), 

 p. 29, Taf. 4, fig. X (1789); Esper, Schmett. v. p. 89, 

 Taf. 1 6, figs. 7-9(1795?). 



