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and oblique inward posteriorly ; postmedian from two-thirds costa, chiefly expressed 

 by dashes on the veins, excnrved anteriorly, then strongly oblique inward, thick and 

 confluent with median between M 2 and SM 2 , angled outward on SM 2 ; subterminal 

 pale line rather irregularly lunulate-dentate, marked by rather strong, irregular 

 dark proximal shading ; some weaker and more interrupted dark shading between 



subterminal and termen. Hindwing with termen slightly waved, feebly sinuate 



between the radials ; median shade nearly straight, well proximal to the elongate 

 dark cell-mark ; postmedian chiefly marked by short dashes on the veins, incurved 

 in posterior part, oblique outward to abdominal margin ; distal area as on forewing. 



Both wings beneath slightly more ochreous. Forewing with the costal spots 

 and postmedian dashes, a distinct elongate cell-mark and blurred indications of 

 the median shade ; proximal part of wing somewhat suffused, distal border rather 

 broadly fuscous, containing apical and central spots of the ground-colour. Hind- 

 wing beneath nearly as above. 



Madagascar : Antananarivo (coll. Chulliat). Type in coll. L. B. Prout. 



Somewhat resembles a miniature Ectropis spoliataria Walk., List Lep. Ins. 

 xxi. 368 (=fulvitincta Warr., Nov. Zool. xi. 474), and shows similar (though 

 weaker) yellowish-brown shades proximally to the antemedian line and distally to 

 the postmedian ; the postmedian line, however, is formed more as in the Indian 

 Psilalcis breta Swinh., and the antennal structure and venation render confusion 

 with spoliataria impossible. In that species the <$ antenna is dentate-fasciculate, 

 with less long cilia, and SC 1 of the forewing arises from SO 2 , anastomosing with 0. 



25. Macaria hypactinia spec. nov. 



?, 29 mm. Face-cone small. Palpus about one-and-a-half times diameter 

 of eye. Head and body concolorous with wings, face and base of palpus whitish 

 beneath. 



Forewing with termen not excised, slightly crenulate in anterior part, scarcely 

 waved in posterior ; SC 1-2 coincident, connected by a slight bar with C ; dirty white, 

 suffused almost throughout with drab-grey and with rather coarse, but not close, 

 black irroration ; lines black ; antemedian before one-fourth, almost right-angled 

 outward in cell and feebly inbent on M ; median line thicker and less strong, more 

 feebly bent, passing just distally to the deep-black cell-dot ; postmedian oblique 

 outward from before two-thirds costa, acutely augalated (though with the extreme 

 apex of the angle rounded off) at B 2 , then forming an extremely slight inward 

 curve, reaching hindmargin at nearly two-thirds; subterminal line thick and white 

 from costa to B 1 , dark-edged proximally, merged into an oblique white apical 

 shade distally, almost entirely obsolete from B 1 hiudwards ; some whitish mottling 

 in distal area, especially along the veins ; terminal black lunules rather strong, 

 separated only by the veins ; fringe grey, spotted with white between the veins. 



Hindwing with termen rather more crenulate than forewing, more weakly 



posteriorly than anteriorly, bend at B 3 scarcely noticeable ; median shade and 

 postmedian line continued, almost straight ; some dark shading proximally to the 

 median shade ; distal half of wing almost unmarked, a whitish subterminal line and 

 dark shading proximally to it just discernible. 



Both wings beneath darker. Forewing marked as above, though with the 

 dark markings less conspicuous, the white apical patch sharper than above ; veins 

 in distal area sharply white. Hindwing sharply marked, the median shade, post- 



