7^ MACAKITDyE. 



MACAEIIDJ3. 



MACARIA, Curt. 



Macaria metagonaria. (Plate CXVIII. fig. 11.) 

 Azelina metagonaria. Walker, Cat. Lq>. Het. xxv. p. 1518 (1862). 



Wings above testaceous to beyond the middle, mottled and striated with grey-brown ; 

 costal borders yellow, spotted with black ; a broad brown stripe across the basal third ; a 

 yellow band beyond the middle intersected by a black stripe, and bounded externally by a 

 black band ; external area purplish grey, striated with blackish and mottled here and there 

 with testaceous ; a wedge-shaped brown-bordered yellowish costal patch towards apex of 

 primaries, and two obliquely placed black spots near centre of disk of secondaries, with an 

 interrupted black marginal line; fringe dark grey, tipped with ochreous and with a pale 

 basal line : body above smoky grey; head ochraceous, black-speckled; abdomen testaceous 

 at the sides. Under surface bright deep ochreous, sparsely speckled with brown, an 

 irregular brown streak across the basal third; external area of primaries nearly as above; 

 external area of secondaries almost wholly ochreous, striated with brown ; otherwise nearly 

 as above, but without the black discal spots : body below ochreous. Expanse of wings 

 39 millim. 



Darjiling (Lidderdale, fyc). 



Macaria xanthonora. (Plate CXVIII. fig. 12.) 

 Macaria xanthonora, Walker, Cat. Lep. Het. xxiii. p. 935. n. 122 (1801). 



(inyisli brown, striated here and there with yellow: wings crossed in the middle by a 

 tolerably regular yellow-tinted white band, beyond which is a narrow falciform yellow line 

 only separated from the band (excepting towards costa of primaries) by a black line; a 

 blackish marginal line; a broad yellow-streaked grey cuneiform costal patch from the central 

 band to the apex of primaries: secondaries with a large blackish patch in the middle of the 

 disk just beyond the central band ; a dark brown angular subapical dash. Primaries below 

 with the basal area, veins, and costa broadly ochreous; central band white, speckled with 

 dark brown : secondaries ochreous to beyond the middle; external area greyish ; fringe with 

 a white basal line; a blackish discoecllular spot : body below ochreous. Expanse of wings 

 40 millim. 



North India. 



