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Male. Fore wing dark cinereous brown, with very indistinct 

 blackish discal spot, and transverse sinuous Une with whitish border; 

 costa and exterior marginal line reddish brown : hind wing very pale 

 at the base ; a white-speckled line at anal angle ; exterior marginal 

 line reddish brown ; cilia blackish, edged with cinereous. 



Female brownish fawn-colour on the fore wing : hind wing as in 

 the male. Underside paler ; costa reddish brown ; a very indistinct 

 dusky transverse discal line. 



Expanse, S If, $ If inch. 



Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell ; F. Moore. 



Fam. Caberid^. 



Genus Cabera. 



Cabera platyleucata. 



Acidalia platyleucata. Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xxxv. Suppl. 

 V. p. 1628. 



C. MARGARITA, n. Sp. 



Male and female pearly white, minutely speckled with cinereous. 

 Both wings with a black discal spot and an indistinct cinereous discal 

 band. Costal line yellow. Antennae, front of head, and legs brownish 

 yellow. 



Expanse If inch. 



Bengal. In Coll. A. E. Russell ; W. S. Atkinson. 



Fam. Macarid^. 



Genus Macaria, Curtis. 



Syn. Evarsia, Walk. 



Macaria metagonaria. 



Ahelina metagonaria, Walk. Cat. Lep. Het. B. M. xsvi. Geom. 

 p. 1.518. 

 Darjeeling. 



M. perspicuaria, n. sp. 



Female pale yellowish testaceous, with thinly dispersed short de- 

 licate blackish strigse : fore wing with two subbasal oblique wavy 

 testaceous lines, the outer line crossing the hind wing ; a submarginal 

 narrow blackish double red band crossing both wings obliquely from 

 below the apex to above anal angle, the apical portion of the inner 

 end abruptly retracted to the costa one-third from the apex ; the 

 marginal space on the fore wing blackish : hind wing with an exte- 

 rior medial reddish spot and contiguous upper streak : both wings 

 with a narrow black marginal line. Two dorsal rows of black spots 

 on abdomen. Underside paler, with minute strigse as above, and the 

 double band broadly bordered exteriorly with bright testaceous, and 

 on the fore wing by a diffused blackish streak ascending from near 



