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the costa towards the apex, is the brown spot as in the preceding, but behind this is a larger cleft spot not formed, 

 as in it, of five small black dots ; the fore wings have the tips more acute, and the hind ones more angulated. 

 Taken according to Mr. Haworth with the preceding, but rare. 



» Synonvmes. — Geometra alternafa, Vfiea. Xevz. ; Hiibner (lituraria) ; Stephens; Wood, fig. 743. 

 PhaltBna prtsnotata, Haworth. 



Species 3. — Macaria liturata ^ — (Plate LXXIII., Fig. '24) — Measures from 15 to 17 lines in expanse; 

 wings ashy with a lilac tinge ; the anterior scarcely falcate at the tip ; the costa with four dark dots, the last 

 largest and chesnut-coloured, the others are carried transversely, in slender nearly obsolete strigse, dotted with 

 black across the wings ; beyond the third is an ochraceous fascia ; hind wings slightly angulated ; apical margin 

 of all tlie wincrs with a row of black dots. Taken in July, in fir plantations in Hampshire ; also in Kent and the 

 northern counties. 



b Synonysies. — Phalmna Geometra liturata, Linnaeus; Hiibner (alternaria) ; Haworth; Curtis, Brit. Ent. pi. 132 ; Stephens; 

 Wood, fig. 745. Phalcena igneata, Hufuagle. 



Species 4. — Macaria pr^atomata '^ — (Plate LXXllI., Fig. 29) — Measures 15 lines in expanse ; fore 

 wino-s but slightly emarginate at the tip, whitish ashy, thickly irrorated with brown scales, the anterior with 

 three dusky, somewhat obsolete, waved strigse, the outer one furcate at the costa, or rather with the costa marked 

 towards the tip, with a short, transverse, dark patch ; apical margin dusky ; hind wings somewhat strigose, and 

 ' ^"^ ' rather acutely angulated. Described by Mr. Haworth, from a specimen in Francillon's British collection, now 

 belonging to Mr. Bentley. 



^ Synonyme. — Phalcena priBaiomata^ ^^\vov(\i \ Stephens; Wood, fig. 746. 



Sppxies 5. — Macaria subrufata f' — (Plate LXXIII., Fig. 30) — Measures 15 lines in expanse: wings 

 reddish, with slender dusky strigae. Size of M. notata — '•' The edges of the acute upper wings seem to have 

 been dentated or angled ; but the specimen from whence this description was made is too much injured to be 

 certain of it." — HAVi^GRTn. Also described from a specimen in Francillon's collection, now belonging to Mr. Bentley. 



^ Synonyme. — PhaltBna subrufata, Haworth ; Stephens ; Wood, fig. 744. 



Species 6. — Macaria unipunctata '' — (Plate LXXIII., Fig. 31) — Measures 16 lines in expanse; wings 

 reddish buiF, irrorated with brown, and strongly dentated ; fore ones with two slender, curved, dark strigae, the 

 centre of the wing between them bearing an obscure brown fascia ; another, less distinct, runs parallel with the 

 apical margin, bearing a conspicuous white dot near the apex ; hind wings somewhat caudated, witii two strigse. 

 Also from a specimen in Francillon's collection, but now belonging to Mr. Stephens ; its locality, as well as 

 those of the two preceding species, being unknown. 



« Synonyme. — Phalmna unipunctata, Haworth ; Stephens, 111. H. 3, pi. 31, fig. 3 ; Wood, fig. 747. 



ANIA, Stephens. 

 The wings in this genus are rather short, the fore ones crossed by entire strigas ; and with the apex 

 acute, the middle of the apical margin prominent, and the middle of the posterior margin of the hind wing 

 angulated ; the palpi are short and scarcely porrected ; the antennse of the males subserrated, and the hind tibiae 

 of the males dilated and destitute of spurs, the female having the same limbs furnished with only a single pair 

 of spurs. The caterpillar is attenuated in front, slightly pilose, and not tubercled. 



