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slightly uudulated browa lines, the one nearest the base least distinet, the outermost line 

 angulated towards the eosta of primaries ; black diseocellular dots ; a dentate-sinuate discal 

 grey stripe, interrupted iu the centre, on each wing, by a black spot ; a black marginal line ; 

 costal margin of primaries yellowish, speckled with brown. Wings below clouded with 

 yellow, the markings reddish brown. Expanse of wings 1 inch. 

 Shanghai [Fortune). 



Macaria zachera. (Plate LII. fig. 2.) 

 Macaria zachera, Butler, Ann. ^- Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 405 (1878). 



Sordid white, becoming pure white at outer border, speckled with black ; two central 

 parallel dark brown lines on a yellowish ground, the outer one abruptly angulated and forked 

 towards the eosta of primaries, the fork filled in with ochraceous ; a slender undulated marginal 

 blackish line ; fringe cream-coloured ; diseocellular spots black : primaries crossed by an 

 angulated dark brown line near the base : body greyish. Wings below brighter than above, 

 but very similar in marking. Expanse of wings 1 inch 5 lines, 



Yokohama (Jonas). 



Macaria maligna. (Plate LII. fig. 3.) 



Macaria maligna, Butler, Ann. 4' Mag. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 405 (1878). 



Pattern of the preceding species, but the ground-colour above slaty grey : below sandy 

 yellow, with broad tawny external area ; markings as above. Expanse of wings 1 inch 3 lines. 

 Yokohama (Jonas). 



BITHIA, Walker. 



Bithia amasa. (Plate LII. fig. 4.) 

 Bithia amasa, Butler, Ann. ^- Afng. Nat. Hist. ser. 5, vol. i. p. 405 (1878), 



Greyish testaceous, covered with brown striations ; the basal area crossed by two ill- 

 defined subangulated darker stripes ; a series of blackish discal dots more or less connected 

 by a very indistinct undulated line, barely perceptible on the primaries ; a discal pinky- 

 brownish ii-regular belt, clouded with blackish in the primaries ; outer border paler brown ; 

 fringe yellowish : primaries with yellow-dotted black costal margin, a pale testaceous apical 

 patch, a series of blackish marginal spots : secondaries with whitish costal area ; a blackish 

 spot near the base ; discocellulars blackish. Under surface bright testaceous, covered with 

 brown striations ; large black diseocellular spots ; a nearly central ferruginous stripe ; a 

 broad discal ferruginous belt; outer border clay-coloured, clouded with ferruginous : primaries 

 with bright testaceous apical spot; anterior coxae bright ochreous. Expanse of wings 1 inch 

 8 lines. 



Yokohama (Jonas). 



