142 GEaMETRID^. 



Semiothisa emersaria, TF/k. (Plate CLXX. fig. 18.) 

 Macaria emersaria, Wll\ Cat. xxiii. p. 925. 



Expanse 1^ inch. 



Oelireous white ; frons and palpi rerldisli. Fore wing witli traces of antemedial, medial, 

 and postmedial bands, each commencing with a chestnut streak from the costa, the last with 

 two streaks forming a fork and a blackish patch on each side of the third median nervule ; a 

 black speck at base of wing and some dark strigse on outer margin at the emargiuation. 

 Hind wing with an indistinct waved antemedial line ; a black speck at end of cell ; a post- 

 medial waved line with ochreous and black irroration beyond it ; some black marginal 

 lunules. 



HETEROSTEGANE, g. n. 



Palpi slender, porrect, and reaching to front of face. Antennae ciliated in male. Hind 

 tibia swollen, with two ])airs of spurs, the distal pair minute. Fore wing with the first sub- 

 costal nervule anastomosing slightly with the costal ; the second, third, fourth, and fifth 

 stalked. Hind wing with the costal nervure anastomosing with the subcostal to near middle 

 of cell ; the two subcostals from angle of cell ; the radial absent. 



Type //. (Macaria) subtessellata, Wlk. 



Heterostegane rectifascia. (Plate CLXX. fig. 8.) 



Expanse ? ^ inch. 



Female. Head and collar purplish brown ; thorax and abdomen yellow. Fore wing 

 yellow irrorated with orange scales; a dark speck in the cell; the costa purplish brown; 

 antemedial, medial, and postmedial bands of aggregated orange scales ; a purplish, nearly 

 straight submarginal band. Hind wing more thickly suffused with orange scales ; the 

 antemedial band just definable ; a dark speck in tlic cell. 



AMPHYDASYNJE. 



Ophthalmodes caritaria, Wlk. (Plate CLXVIII. fig. 8.) 

 Boannia caritaria, Wlk. Cat. xxi. p. 489. 



Expanse 1^ inch. 



Head and thorax pale brown and grey varied with lilack ; abdomen whitish, with a few 

 brown scales and paired dorsal segmental black spots. Wings whitish, irrorated and suff'uscd 

 with pale brown : fore wing with antemedial and medial irregularly waved black lines ; a 

 postmedial lunnlatc line incurved from the third median nervule to inner margin ; a sub- 



