1898.] 



OP THE StrBFAMIIrY PXEAUSTIN^E, 



669 



Genus 48. Spilomela. 



Sjnlomela Guen. Delt. & Pyr. p. 280 (1854). 



Palpi upturned, conical, and reaching vertex of head ; maxillary 

 palpi filiform ; frons rounded ; antennae annulate and as long as 

 the fore wing; legs long and slender, the outer spins half the 

 length of inner ; abdomen of male with long anal tuft. I'ore wing 

 with veins 3, 4, 5 from angle of cell ; 7 curved and approximated 

 for a short distance to 8, 9, to which 10 also is approximated. 

 Hind wing with vein 3 from angle of cell ; 4, 5 approximated for 

 a short distance ; 6, 7 shortly stalked, 7 anastomosing with 8. 



Fig. 48. 



Spilomela perspicata, (J. i. 



Sect. I. Fore wing of male with a roughly scaled glandular 

 swelling at middle of coata. 



Twe. (1) Spilomela peespicata Fahr. Mant. ii. 213. S. America. 



Phalcena stygialis Stoll, Pap. Exot. v. p. 56, pi. 12. f. 7. 



Sect. II. Fore wing of male normal. 



(2) Spilomela fimebiatjbalis Guen. Delt. & Pyr. p. 319. 



W. Indies ; Brazil. 



Genus 49. Macabet^ba. 



Macaretcera Meyr. Trans. Ent. Soc. 1886, p. 255. 

 TricTiopti/chodes Swinh. A. M. N. H. (6) xiv. p. 207 (1894). 

 Palpi upturned, conically scaled, flattened, and reaching vertex 

 of head ; maxillary palpi filiform ; frons flat and oblique ; antennae 



Fis. 49. 



Macaretara hesperis, (j" 



(From Moths Ind. vol. iv.) 



ann dated ; tibiae slightly fringed with hair on outer sides, the 

 outer spurs about half the length of inner. Fore wing with vein 



