568 NocTuiDj':, 



obsolescent except towards costa and inner margin, the streaks on 

 terminal area slight; hind wing with the veins streaked with 

 white, a diffused white fascia through the cell to a diffused dentate 

 white postmedial band extending from costa to below submedian 

 fold. 



Hnh. Philippines, Luzon ; Sawbawa, 1 cJ , 1 $ . Exp. S 30, 

 ? 32 millim. 



6973. Vizaga mirabilis. (Plate CLXXXIX. fig. 15.) 



Tarelydna mirabilis, Eeth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 242 (1906). 



Head white with some fuscons on vertex ; palpi bluish fuscous 

 and white ; antennae fuscons ; thorax fulvous yellow ; pectus and 

 legs white, the fore femora bluish fuscous above, the tibiae and tarsi 

 bluish fuscous ringed with white ; mid and hind legs with the tibiae 

 irrorated with blue, the tarsi ringed with blue ; abdomen cobalt- 

 blue (fading to pale red), the anal tuft and ventral surface white 

 irrorated with blue. Fore wing fulvous yellow to beyond middle 

 with a greenish tinge except on costal area, the inner margin blue ; 

 a rather narrow and somewhat oblique white band from costa 

 beyond middle to inner margin near tornus, its outer edge slightly 

 produced at costa, defined on outer side by olive-green, the rest of 

 terminal area cupreous red, blue below submedian fold ; cilia Avhite 

 mixed with blue, wholly blue towards tornus. Hind wing cobalt- 

 blue ; cilia white mixed with blue. Underside of fore wing blue, 

 the inner area white, the costa fuscous with some white scales 

 towards base and beyond middle and on apieal part of termen ; 

 hind wing with white irroration on base of costal area, in cell and 

 submedian fold, an apieal white patch narrowing to a point at 

 vein 2 and with dentate inner edge. 



Hah. Be. N. Guinea, Ekeikei (Pratt), 5 c? , 5 $ , Mt. Kebea 

 {Pratt), 2 2 ■ J^'-^F- <S 30, $ 34-38 millim. 



Genus MACEDA. 



Type, 



Maceda, Wlk. xiii. 1140 (1857) mansueta. 



Calduha, V\'lk. xv. 1815 (1858) mansueta. 



Proboscis fully developed ; palpi upturned, the 2nd joint reaching about to 

 middle of frons and smoothly scaled, the 3rd moderate ; frong smooth ; eyes 

 large, roimd ; antennsE of male strongly ciliated ; thorax clothed almost 

 entirely Vfith scales and vi'ithout crests; tibise slightly fringed with hair; 

 abdomen with dorsal crests on two basal segments. Fore wing short and 

 broad, the apex rounded, the termen evenly curved and not crenulate ; veins 3 

 and 5 from near angle of cell; 6 from upper angle; 9 from 10 anastomosing 

 with 8 to form a rather long areole ; 11 from cell; male with scaleless groove 

 in upper part of extremity of cell on upperside, on underside filling the whole 

 end of cell. Hind wing with veins 3, 4 stalked ; 5 fully developed fi-om just 

 above angle of cell ; 6, 7 from upper angle; 8 anastomosing with the cell near 

 base only. 



