MACEDA. 



569 



6974. Maceda mansueta. 



Macecla maoisueta, Wlk. xiii. 1141 (1857); Moore, Lep. Ceyl. iii. p. 82, 



pi. 154. ff. 4, 5; Hn:psn. Moths Ind. ii. p. St^. 

 Calduba ohtenta, Wlk. xv. 1815 (1858). 



Maceda discalis, Wlk. Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vii. p. 176 (1864). 

 Maceda rufesce7is, Beth.-Baker, Nov. Zool. xiii. p. 232 (1906). 



Head and thorax red-brown withi a slight greyish tinge ; palpi 

 ■whitish at base ; pectus and legs white, the tibiae and tarsi brown 

 ringed with white ; abdomen fuscous brown with slight white 

 segmental lines, the ventral surface and anal tuft of male white. 

 Fore wing red-browu with a faint purplish tinge ; antemedial line 

 brown, rather indistinct, oblique ; a black discoidal point, in the 

 male forming a slight streak be3'ond the fovea ; postmedial line 

 brown slightly defined on outer side by grej-, oblique from costa to 

 vein 6, then dentate, bent inwards below vein 3 and outwards 

 below submedian fold ; subterminal line represented by a series of 

 slight somewhat dentate blackish spots, somewhat excurved below 

 vein 7 and ending on termen above tornus ; a slight fuscous 

 terminal shade from below apex to vein 2 ; a fine whitish line at 



Fig. 217. — Maceda mansioeia, S. \. 



base of cilia. Hind wing grey-brown, the terminal area blackish 

 from vein 6 to submedian fold, a white patch beyond lower angle 

 of cell with the veins on it brown ; the termeu and cilia white 

 between veins 3 and 1 ; the underside white, the terminal area 

 fuscous brown narrowing to tornus and with the termen and cilia 

 white between veins 3 and 1, sometimes with a slight black 

 discoidal striga. 



Ab. 1. discalis. Pore wing with a pale patch on discal 'area 

 defined by purplish fuscous beyond the antemedial and before the 

 postmedial line and above submedian fold. 



Ab. 2. Fore wing with the medial area purplish fuscous to the 

 submedian fold. 



Ab. 3. rufescens. Fore wing with tlie whole medial area purplish 

 fuscous and also the postmedial area below discal fold. 



Ab. 4. Fore wing with the terminal area also purplish fuscous 

 except towards apex. 



Ab. 5. Head, thorax, and fore wing greyer brown. 



