4865. Macaretaera hesperis, Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 255. 

 Trichoptychodes delicata, Swinh. A. M. N.H. (6) xiv, p. 207. 



<5 . Head, thorax, and abdomen brownish, the last ringed with 

 white ; palpi white ; fore legs banded yellow and white. Pore 



wing white, with yellow spot at 

 base of costa; a broad oblique 

 subbasal yellow band with waved 

 outer edge; an oblique yellow 

 antemedial band from costa to 

 median nervure; three oblique 

 bands just beyond the middle, 

 their extremities attenuated, 

 fuscous, and conjoined on vein 3, 

 where they are merged in a 

 diffused dark patch on inner margin crossed by a waved white 

 line ; the outer area yellow, with a waved oblique white streak 

 from apex and another from outer margin below apex to vein 2. 

 Hind wing white, with a broad fuscous-black marginal band diffused 

 along the median nervules to cell ; the margin white at apex ; the 

 ridge of scales on vein la brown and black. 



$ with the markings of thorax and abdomen yellower ; fore wing 

 with the dark postmedial patch on inner area browner and broken 

 up into streaks on veins 2 and 3 and spots on inner margin ; hind 

 wing with hardly a trace of fuscous on outer area. 

 Bab. Khasis ; Fiji. Exp., 3 18, $ 20 millim. 



Fig. 175. 

 Macaretcera hesperis, 



; Genus PILODES. 



Fiiodes, Guen. Delt. $ Pyr. p. 317 (1854). 



Pinacia, Hiibn. Samml. exot. Schmett. iv, 4, p. 15 (1832), nondescr. 



Auxomitia, Led. Wien. ent. Mon. 1863, p. 391. 



Type, F. fulvidorsalis, Hiibn. 



Range. Ethiopian and Oriental regions. 



Palpi upturned and hardly reaching vertex of head, the 

 2nd and .3rd joints conically scaled ; maxillary palpi filiform ; 

 frons with a rounded prominence ; antennae nearly one and a 

 half times the length of fore wing and minutely annulated; 

 fore tarsi of male with the first three joints fringed with hair 

 on inner side ; hind tibi with the outer medial spur absent, 

 the tarsi very long ; abdomen long, with lateral tufts on terminal 

 segments ; anal tuft of male thick, of female slender. Fore wing 

 with the costa highly arched towards apex ; veins 3, 4, 5 from 

 angle of cell, 7 curved and approximated to 8, 9, to which 

 10 also is closely approximated. Hind wing with the cell short ; 

 veins 3, 4, 5 radiating from the angle ; 6, 7 on a long stalk, 

 7 anastomosing or in male becoming coincident with 8. 



